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Email: wwarthen@messner.com
With over 25 years of experience, including positions as in-house counsel at a Denver-based REIT and at the country’s second-largest privately held corporation, Wade concentrates his practice on commercial real estate transactions of all types, including leases and amendments for landlords and tenants; purchases and sales from contract through closing; loan documents and financing arrangements; construction contracts; title, survey, and due diligence evaluations; boundary, access, and easement issues; development, land use, and zoning concerns; lien rights; and real estate regulatory compliance.
Representative Matters
Publications and Speaking Engagements
How Does the Dodd-Frank Act Affect Commercial Lending?, Colorado Real Estate Journal, September, 2011
Medical Marijuana: Leasing Issues from a Commercial Landlord Perspective, Colorado Real Estate Journal, March, 2011
Landlords and Tenants Increasingly Turn to Submetering, Colorado Real Estate Journal, September 3, 2008.
Community Involvement
- National Sports Center for the Disabled, Volunteer Ski Instructor, 2006 – Present
- Rock Valley Kiwanis Club President, 1997
Professional Experience
- Darling Milligan Horowitz (June 2014 – September 2015)
- The Nelson Law Firm (December 2011 – June 2014)
- Franke Greenhouse List & Lippitt, LLP (November 2006 – September 2011)
- Fisher Sweetbaum Levin & Sands, P.C. (October 2004 – November 2006)
- Kissinger & Fellman, P.C. (January 2002 – September 2004)
- Arc Holdings, LLP (March 2000 – November 2001)
- Koch Industries, INC. (March 1997 – February 2000)
- Hinshaw & Culbertson (June 1992 – February 1997)