David K. McRae, Principal
Real Estate Law And Transactions
| Email: | dmcrae@offitkurman.com |
| Office Phone: | 301.575.0378 |
| Fax: | 301.575.0335 |
| Mailing Address: | 8171 Maple Lawn Boulevard Suite 200 Maple Lawn, MD 20759 |
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Practice Areas
Practice Focus
David McRae is a finance attorney and real estate lawyer who focuses his practice on advising and assisting clients with negotiating, documenting, and consummating real estate, business, and secured lending transactions. Mr. McRae prepares and analyzes contracts, provides legal counsel, performs due diligence, coordinates transactional details and otherwise helps clients achieve their entrepreneurial objectives.
His transactional experience includes matters relating to property and business acquisitions and dispositions, residential and commercial condominium conversions, office and retail leasing (including long-term ground leasing), institutional and private lending transactions, joint venture agreements, participation and profit sharing agreements, business formation and governance, private placement memoranda and subscription agreements, employment and agency agreements.
Education
- J.D. (cum laude), University of Maryland, 1994
- B.A., Cornell University, 1984
Bar and Court Admissions
- Maryland
- District of Columbia
Points of Distinction
Mr. McRae offers detailed legal and practical knowledge, a successful track record as a real estate lawyer, and a steady hand in structuring, documenting, and consummating business and real estate transactions for a wide range of clients. Because he has extensive experience representing sellers as well as buyers, landlords as well as tenants, lenders as well as borrowers, and a diverse array of other clients, he dialogues skillfully and effectively with the parties and counsel on the other side of each transaction to attain his clients’ objectives and resolve differences in a professional and respectful manner. He frequently manages complex projects and has a proven ability to communicate difficult subjects in understandable terms.
Mr. McRae’s recent achievements include assisting a Maryland property owner in negotiating and completing a long-term ground lease of a restaurant pad site to a major restaurant chain; assisting one of the firm’s institutional lender clients in completing numerous loan transactions (including loan participation transactions with other lenders) in several states; assisting an international business consulting firm in negotiating an agency agreement with a U.S. technology company to develop business relations with a leading oil company in Brazil and assisting a Maryland real estate investor and developer in completing a residential condominium conversion in Baltimore City. Mr. McRae has also assisted individuals with the transactions that mattered most to them, such as negotiating private loans, transferring interests in commonly owned properties, and resolving boundary line disputes with neighbors.
He was named to the Greater Washington’s Legal Elite list in 2010, which is a readers' poll conducted by Washington SmartCEO magazine.
Previous Work
Prior to joining Offit Kurman as a real estate lawyer, Mr. McRae worked for many years as a transactional real estate, business, and land use attorney in the District of Columbia. His prior experience also includes several years as a staff attorney for a national nongovernmental organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., working on regulatory issues. Before entering the practice of law, he worked for over seven years in the field of marketing, technical, and corporate communications for an international biotechnology corporation in Gaithersburg, Maryland and an international manufacturing corporation in Englewood, Colorado.
