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Ballard Spahr LLP Offices
1225 17TH STREET, SUITE 2300
DENVER, CO 80202-5596
COLORADO
United States
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Christopher Payne
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Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner and Practice Leader of the Resort, Hospitality, and Timeshare Group
Career
Christopher Payne is Practice Leader of the Resort, Hospitality, and Timeshare Group, and works with developers, owners, operators, and lenders in real estate acquisition, land use, development, construction, condominium law, interval ownership, development, and secured lending, with emphasis on resort and mixed-use projects.
Admissions: Colorado
Memberships
American Resort Development Association, Trustee (2013-present), Federal Legislative Committee (2013-present)
Education
University of Denver Sturm College of Law (J.D. 1993), University of California, Los Angeles (M.A. 1989), University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A. 1986)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
Ballard Spahr LLP fields a multidisciplinary practice with experience handling a wide scope of development, structuring, condominium, and mixed-use properties, along with a considerable pipeline of single-family residential property work. Alongside their real estate finance group, the practice is also particularly experienced in the hospitality sector, evidenced by its resort, hospitality and timeshare group. The firm is also distinct in its affordable housing niche, where the team regularly works with private and governmental bodies, including the New York City Housing Authority and Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, on affordable housing and social infrastructure developments and maintenance matters. The department is headed by Baltimore-based chair Amy McClain, with Dominic De Simone leading the private equity, loan servicing, and distressed real estate teams from Philadelphia. Joining them from Washington DC are Mary Jo George, head of housing finance, Katherine Noonan, leader on development and transactions, and Molly Bryson, affordable housing and community development group head. Denver-based Christopher Payne heads the resort, hospitality and timeshare group. Experienced on mergers, acquisitions and retail bankruptcies, Michael Ostermeyer is noted for his expertise advising on corporate portfolios and public real estate projects from the firm’s Phoenix office.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense