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Chris is Barclay Damon’s Real Estate Practice Area chair and former hiring partner. He primarily concentrates his practice on real estate law and financial transactions, negotiating and handling real estate acquisition and sale transactions on behalf of clients ranging from individuals and small businesses to international corporations.In renewable-energy development and acquisition projects, Chris represents solar, wind, and hydroelectric owners and developers in negotiating, drafting, and obtaining site-control documents such as solar and wind leases and easements as well as examining and resolving title issues. Chris advises on a wide array of development, acquisition, sale and site-control matters nationwide, including the acquisition of hydroelectric, nuclear, and co-generation power plants as well as electric- and gas-transmission corridor developments throughout New York State and from New England through the Midwest. In the oil and gas development industry, Chris provided real estate counsel in the largest-ever acquisition of oil and gas rights in New York State. Working closely with the firm’s commercial litigation attorneys, Chris provides support with real estate disputes involving easements and rights of way, riparian rights, adverse possession, and complex title issues. Chris has extensive experience representing landlords and tenants in commercial lease negotiations for retail, office, manufacturing, and shopping-center lease transactions as well as real estate development ground-lease transactions.As a NY-licensed title insurance agent and examining counsel to several title insurance companies, Chris analyzes and examines real estate titles and routinely handles large, complex title insurance policies. He represents institutional lenders in both real estate-secured and non-real estate-secured commercial financing transactions.

Barclay Damon's 27 practice areas encompass a vast range of focus areas critical to today’s business climate, including energy and utility, the environment, labor and employment, torts, insurance and products liability, healthcare and human services, and real property tax. We have unparalleled experience in such unique areas of the law as Indian law and lobbying compliance and election law, and are in the forefront of such rapidly evolving areas as intellectual property law. From our offices in Albany, Boston Metro, Buffalo, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Toronto and Washington, D.C., we represent clients throughout the Northeast, as well as across the entire U.S. and Canada. Our ability to provide not only regional insight and accessibility, but national perspectives and international capabilities, makes Barclay Damon the firm to hire for companies doing business in New York and the Northeast.

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

B.S., Industrial And Labor Relations

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