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Ann Clary Gordon

Partner

36 South Charles Street
Suite 2000
Baltimore, MD 21201

410.385.4225 ph
410.539.7611 fax

Ann Clary Gordon is a partner of the Firm, chairs the Firm's real estate practice group, and is a member of the Firm's business law department. She concentrates in all aspects of real estate law, with emphasis on commercial development, financing, and leasing. Ms. Gordon has been with the Firm since 1976.

Ms. Gordon’s commercial real estate practice emphasizes the representation of real estate developers (including several of the region’s major developers) in acquisitions, development, financing, construction, leasing, and sales. She has represented developers in a wide variety of transactions including innumerable build to suit lease negotiations with national tenants and major loan transactions including securitized financings with a variety of lenders and joint venture institutional, pension, and high income individual equity investors. Ms. Gordon has also served as local counsel to national real estate companies and lenders in connection with various multi state transactions and has represented owners wishing to subject their properties to conservation easements.

Ms. Gordon, together with the Firm’s tax partner, recently handled the negotiation and closing of the transfers of large portfolios of properties to several national REITs, which transactions aggregated more than $350 million. The transactions involved complex structuring issues as well as resolution of varied property and financing related matters.

Bar Admissions

  • Maryland
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Education

  • Wellesley College (B.A.)
  • University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., with honors)

Affiliations, Achievements and Honors

  • Named in Best Lawyers in America 2012 for the practice of real estate law  
  • Selected for inclusion in the 2012 rankings of Maryland Super Lawyers
  • Member, Maryland State Bar Association
  • Member, Real Property, Planning and Zoning Section of the MSBA
  • Member, Baltimore City Bar Association; Former Public Relations Chair, Young Lawyers Section
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the ABA
  • Member, Baltimore Advisory Board, Chicago Title Insurance Company
  • Trustee, University of Maryland Law School Fund
  • Officer, Baltimore Wellesley Club
  • Trustee, Friends School of Baltimore (1988-1991)
  • Co Editor, “Residential Real Estate Transactions,” Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc. (MICPEL) first published in 1981 and regularly supplemented
  • Frequent lecturer on commercial leasing and other considerations in real estate transactions, including the Graduate Real Estate Program of The Johns Hopkins University and MICPEL
  • Provided pro bono legal services to The Women’s Housing Coalition, among others