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Brian Page, a commercial real estate and business attorney and managing member of Dykema's Grand Rapids Office, has more than 25 years of experience providing legal counsel for real estate development and business transactions, and related capital and finance matters. Mr. Page has been part of some of the most noteworthy projects in Western Michigan and brings clients a perspective that includes insight on a wide variety of solutions to achieve project and transaction funding, approval and completion. He also takes an active role in helping clients understand the important legal issues that impact their sustainable technology building projects.
His experience also includes project syndications, complex financing workouts and restructurings, loan enforcement, joint ventures, leasing, land use planning and zoning, construction, and acquisitions and divestitures. Mr. Page's recent clients include Michigan State University, Perrigo Company, First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc., CORE Realty Holdings, Fifth Third Bank, LaSalle Bank (Bank of America), Indymac Bank, Pfizer, Inc., Bridge Street Capital Partners L.P., Entergy Corporation, Fidelity National Title Insurance Family of Companies, LandAmerica Title, Midland Loan Services, Inc., Gundlach Champion, Inc., Priceline.com, and Gantos Group.
When Michigan State University elected to relocate its College of Human Medicine (CHM) to Grand Rapids, it turned to Dykema. Mr. Page counseled MSU on the complex issues surrounding the acquisition structure and site development, and led MSU's dialogue with the adjacent national medical research institute and regional hospital system with which the CHM will partner. When completed in 2010, the CHM will enjoy heightened visibility and prestige in its larger community, and the Grand Rapids area will reap the rewards as well.
Mr. Page recently helped a mortgage lender client avoid a significant loss on a multi-million-dollar property that was subject to civil forfeiture to the federal government. Through his analysis of Michigan's complex recording law, he was able to gain a victory for the client in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by successfully establishing that the government's lis pendens filing was deficient. The ruling also benefited title companies; had the appeal not been successful, title searches could have been much more expensive and the risk of loss to title companies would have been substantially greater.
A "Best Lawyers in America" and "Super Lawyers" selection, and a State Bar of Michigan Foundation Life Fellow, Mr. Page is a frequent lecturer on continuing legal education topics and serves on the invitation-only Michigan Land Title Standards Committee. | 