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Ballard Spahr LLP Offices
111 S. Calvert Street
27th Floor
BALTIMORE, MD 21202-6174
MARYLAND
United States
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Charles Moran
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Work Department
Business and Transactions
Position
Senior Counsel
Career
Charles R. Moran represents publicly traded and privately held companies, equity funds, investment banks, and institutional lenders in a wide variety of corporate, business, and finance matters. He is experienced in the representation of real estate investment trusts, life sciences and other technology-based companies, and health care providers.
Charlie regularly advises clients on matters of corporate law and corporate governance. He has acted as special corporate counsel to acquirers and targets, as well as to boards of directors and committees thereof, in connection with numerous mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and other extraordinary transactions.
Admissions
District of Columbia
Maryland
Memberships
American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, Committee on Corporate Governance
Maryland State Bar Association, Section of Business Law, Committee on Corporation Laws; past member, Section Council
Education
University of Maryland School of Law (J.D. 1971);
University of Maryland (B.S. Ch.E. 1968)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
In Baltimore, Ballard Spahr LLP is a go-to firm for specialist Maryland corporation law knowledge, where it excels in advising its clients on both public and private Maryland REITs and their related tax, corporate, securities, and bankruptcy issues. The team continues to hold close relationships with REIT clients while also serving as corporate counsel. Practice head Douglas Fox is well-versed in counselling REITs, mutual funds, and other investment companies in capital raising transactions, corporate governance, and M&A. Co-head senior counsel Charles Moran is an expert in representing REITs, life sciences and healthcare clients in complex corporate transactions. Thomas Bashore is key to the team and focuses on entity formation and organization, corporation law and public offerings. All aforementioned lawyers are based in Baltimore.
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