Christopher E. Soukup Email & Phone Number

Chris' principal practice areas are commercial real estate, land conservation and business transactions.His commercial real estate experience encompasses the entire range of real estate matters for office, retail and industrial properties - purchase and sales, options, development, mortgage loans, leases, subleases, easements, property restrictions, license agreements, collections, evictions, receiverships, mechanic's liens, oil and gas leases, as well as title insurance, survey and environmental issues.His land conservation practice assists developers, conservancy organizations, governmental agencies and individual property owners. He has extensive experience with conservation easements, wetlands, land acquisition transactions, grant procurement, financing, land use, mitigation projects, estate planning options and deed restrictions. Chris coordinates all necessary surveys, appraisals, assessments and delineations for land preservation transactions.The business transactions associated with those commercial real estate and land conservation activities include organizing limited liability companies (LLC) and corporations. Chris provides legal advice to facilitate small to mid-sized entrepreneurial startups as well as the on-going management and operation concerns of established companies.His practice encompasses all of Northeast Ohio - primarily Cleveland and Akron in Cuyahoga and Summit Counties but extends throughout the neighboring counties of Lorain, Medina, Portage, Stark, Geauga, Lake and Ashtabula.Chris and his wife, Vicki, have three adult sons and have lived in Hudson, Ohio since 1987 where both have been active in community affairs - Chris with the Hudson Land Conservancy and Vicki with the Hudson School Board.

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  Ohio State University

  Political Science