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David A. Wright, Esq.

(J.D. M.B.A.)

Dec 2012-present:
Lawyers Realty Co., LLC
Chief Deal Officer / Owner
April 2012—present: David A. Wright
Attorney at Law, LLC

1990 – 2012: Kaplan Real Estate Company, Inc. (St. Louis, MO) President since 2005; Vice President 1990 - 2004. Oversaw and grew a $100,000,000+ portfolio of retail / flex space, leasing and managing a portfolio of strip centers and other property types, leading a staff of commercial real estate brokers and property management professionals, handling zoning, lease negotiations, financing and other legal matters, and all other facets of commercial real estate business; active in all aspects of commercial real estate including: third party brokerage on sale and lease transactions, tenant representation, site selection, preparing and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, developing and managing build to suit projects and or doing deals for companies such as, Walgreen’s (in four different states), CVS, AutoZone, Lowe’s, Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, Quizno's, St. Louis Bread Co. (Panera, Inc.), Taco Bell (YUM!), Blockbuster Video, Ponderosa, Circuit City, AT&T Wireless, Shell Oil Company, SmashBurger, Tilted Kilt, Regions Bank, Hooter’s, Dollar General, Washington University and others. Successfully completed transactions in MO, IL, IN, IA, KS, OK, AZ, TX, NM, CA & FL; assisting clients (entrepreneurs, portfolio owners, financial institutions, etc.) maximize the value of their real estate holdings.
1989-1990: Leo Eisenberg Company, St. Louis, MO office - Real Estate Agent
1989: Mazur & Rabin Law Firm, Clayton, MO – Attorney Associate

Education: St. Louis University School of Law and School of Business - J.D. and M.B.A.1988; Indiana University School of Business - B.S. in Finance / Real Estate 1985

Past or present member of: Board of Directors - Bank of Springfield—Springfield, IL ($1 Billion+ in assets); Board Member of Jewish Community Center Association (the “J”); Lifetime member of NAACP; Council of International Restaurant Real Estate Brokers (CIRB); Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO/WEO – past President of St. Louis Chapter of WEO); The Missouri Bar, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (active on the Real Property Committee, past Chair of the Franchise Law Committee); International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate; International Council of Shopping Centers; former Member of Mayor of St. Louis' Small Business Advisory Council; former Board of Directors Frontenac Bank – a community bank with $380+ million in assets (also served on loan committee and audit committee);

Interests:family, working out, playing ice hockey, sports, food (dining / cooking), music,

CONTACT INFORMATION:
CELL: (314) 422-1689; Ofc: (314) 291-1200
EMAIL: [email protected]
ADDRESS: Office: 3801 McKelvey Road, Suite 200,
St. Louis, MO 63044
Residence: 2124 N. Geyer Rd.
Frontenac, MO 63131

A man in a suit and tie standing next to a building.

Zach Williams

June 2021-present:
Lawyers Realty Co., LLC
Agent / Consultant, specializing in Sales and Leasing of Retail
Industrial,
Investments;
Site Selection;
Acquisitions;
Dispositions;
Development and Brokerage

Jay Cohen

ATTORNEY AT LAW

Jay Cohen is a seasoned Commercial Real Estate Attorney based in St.
Louis

Jay Cohen is a seasoned Commercial Real Estate Attorney based in St. Louis, MO with a diverse background in many commercial real estate matters, including sale contract and lease documentation, review, and negotiation, entitlements, due diligence, title insurance, and zoning, among others.

Jay’s law practice focuses on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions. His role involves negotiating and drafting complex contracts and commercial leases, due diligence, risk mitigation, and managing the entire contract lifecycle. Jay is known for his exceptional attention to detail, comprehensive and thorough analysis, and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously within fast-paced environments. Jay’s client-centric approach has helped cultivate strong, trust-based relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring consistent successful outcomes on all matters he handles.

Jay is also an accomplished Commercial Real Estate Broker with many years of experience in leasing, tenant representation, owner representation, acquisitions, development, investment properties, and deal negotiation. Jay’s work in commercial real estate brokerage is on a broad geographic basis, being local, regional, and national in scope.

Jay’s portfolio of retail and restaurant clients, past and present, includes such notable names as Ann Taylor, Books-A-Million, California Pizza Kitchen, Chili’s Restaurants, Chuck E Cheese, Circuit City, Dress Barn, Ethan Allen, Golf Galaxy, Harbor Freight Tools, Jos. A. Bank, Joe’s Crab Shack, Kirkland’s, Noodles & Co, Panera, PetSmart, Pier 1, Rent-A-Center, Ross Stores, Shoe Carnival, Staples, The Tile Shop, ULTA, and Wendy’s.

Jay’s commercial real estate industry involvement includes serving as a past Senior Advisor of the ICSC Next Generation - St. Louis Chapter, and he is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Urban Land Institute, and the National Association of Realtors. Jay has also contributed as a Roundtable Discussion Leader at many ICSC Idea Exchanges, sharing insights on career growth and tenant representation.

As President and Corporate Counsel for seven years at Hitchcock Butterfield, a St. Louis-based manufacturer and distributor of home décor products, Jay oversaw and managed the daily operations of a manufacturer, with e-commerce as its primary sales channel. Jay’s leadership and strategic initiatives resulted in a 250% increase in top line sales and a 300% boost in production capacity in his first four years as President. In this role, Jay managed an organization with 14 employees, handled all legal matters, supervised personnel in accounting, order processing, production, packaging, and shipping, managed business financing, negotiated various commercial contracts, managed business insurance, spearheaded marketing initiatives, was the primary contact for commercial sales, and scaled IT and operational systems to achieve significant growth and operational excellence.

Jay holds a B.S.B.A. in Finance from the University of Missouri and a J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law.

David Wright Bio

(J.D. M.B.A.)

President - 2005 to 2012 | Vice President - 1990 to 2004
Kaplan Real Estate Company, Inc.

Contact -

Phone: C: (314) 422-1689 | O: (314) 291-1200

Email: [email protected]

Address: 1600 S. Brentwood Blvd., Ste. 770 St. Louis, MO 63144

Experience -

Chief Deal Officer | Owner | Lawyers Realty Co., LLC
December 2012 - Present

Attorney | David A. Wright Attorney at Law, LLC
April 2012 - Present
Providing legal and consulting services for select clients in the areas of real estate and business transactions

Bank of Springfield | VP of the Board of Directors 2017 - Present

Grassroots MO | Missouri Partner
2018 - 2024

President - 2005 to 2012 | Vice President - 1990 to 2004
Kaplan Real Estate Company, Inc.
1990 - 2012

Real Estate Agent | Leo Eisenberg Company
1989-1990

Attorney Associate | Mazur & Rabin Law Firm
1989

Relevant Experience -

Oversee a team of real estate professionals providing real estate and business brokerage, tenant / buyer representation, owner representation, property management, build to suit development and consulting services in the retail, restaurant, logistics, manufacturing and other industries for clients such as: Tin Roof – a live music Joint; The Pasta House Co., 24/7 Express Logistics; Telle Tire; Walgreen’s (in four different states), CVS, AutoZone, Lowe’s, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, Quizno’s, St. Louis Bread Co. (Panera, Inc.), Taco Bell (YUM!), SmashBurger, Tilted Kilt, Regions Bank, Hooter’s, Dollar General, Pizza Ranch, Katie’s Pizza & Pasta Osteria, Washington University and many others. Oversaw and grew a $100,000,000+ portfolio of retail/flex space by leasing and managing the portfolio and leading a staff of commercial real estate brokers and property management professionals, handling zoning, lease negotiations, financing and other legal matters, and all other facets of commercial real estate business including but not limited to: brokerage on sale and lease transactions, tenant representation site selection, preparing and negotiating purchase and sale agreements having successfully completed transactions in over 20 states, assisting clients (entrepreneurs, portfolio owners, financial institutions, etc.) maximize the value of their real estate and business holdings.

Education -

St. Louis University School of Law and Business
J.D. and M.B.A. 1988
Indiana University School of Business
B.S. Finance/Real Estate 1985

Past or Present Member of -

Board of Directors Bank of Springfield—Springfield, IL ($1.6+ Billion in assets—serving on board loan and audit committees); Board Member St. Louis Association of Realtors - Commercial Division; Board Member of Jewish Community Center Association (the “J”); Lifetime member of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Council of International Restaurant Real Estate Brokers (CIRB); Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO/WEO – past President of St. Louis Chapter of WEO); The Missouri Bar, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (active on the Real Property Committee, past Chair of the Franchise Law Committee); International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate; International Council of Shopping Centers; former Member of Mayor of St. Louis’ Small Business Advisory Council; former Board of Directors Frontenac Bank – a community bank with $380+ million in assets (also served on loan committee and audit committee);

Awards -

2023 Realtor of the Year, St. Louis Relators - Commercial Division

COSTAR 2023 Most Impactful Deal of the Year Award Recipient - St. Louis Region

Interests -

Family, working out, playing ice hockey, sports, food (dining/cooking), music

Clarence L. Perry

April 2015 – August 2022 (Retired):
Lawyers Realty Co., LLC,
St. Louis, MO Broker Salesperson

2008 – 2015: Business Transition Specialists, St. Louis, MO; Principal in the only full-lifecycle Merger & Acquisition firm in the region helping clients buy, grow and sell businesses. Working primarily with private equity firms, secured a $110 million offer for 75% of a logistics company and a $2 million offer for 60% of an office equipment business.

2001 - 2008: R. E. Perry Co. St. Louis, MO. Completed major lease projects in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Atlanta, Chicago, Minnesota, Saint Louis, Fort Worth, and Denver primarily for the Home Depot Company. Completed Opinion of Value Projects for six marine terminals on the Ohio River for a Family Trust and agriculture land and a marine terminal on the Mississippi River for another Family Trust. Earned broker's license, the Transnational Referral Certification (TRC), the Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) designation, and completed the four required courses to receive the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation while with the R.E. Perry Co.

1989-2001: Weyerhaeuser Company, St. Louis, MO; Vice President of the Central Region Corrugated Packaging Operations and International Development. In Corrugated Packaging Operations, had P&L responsibility for twelve plants in the mid-west with over $500 million in annual sales. Major customers included Iowa Beef Products, General Mills, Quaker Oats, Fort Howard Paper, James River Paper and Maytag; International Development - responsible for partner agreements in Europe and packaging business in Asia, including the land and partner negotiations, the construction and the operation of two corrugated packaging plants in Wuhan and Shanghai, China, with a combined cost of over $35 million. The Wuhan plant's major customers were the Budweiser Wuhan Brewery and the Wuhan Coca-Cola Bottling Plant while the Shanghai plant supplied Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kimberly-Clark, Kodak and other multinational customers. Also responsible for the due diligence involved with the $96.3 million acquisition of the largest privately held corrugated packaging company in Asia, the Central Package Group, whose headquarters were in Singapore.

1987-1989: The Perry Group, St. Louis, MO President and Founder. Corporation formed to manufacture, and market a patented disposable soft tissue biopsy cutting device to the health care industry.

1963 – 1987: Owens-Illinois, Inc., Toledo, OH, Began in the Forest Products Division as a corrugated packaging sales representative in Virginia, followed by increasingly higher management positions in four plants before being named Vice President of the Central Region where P&L responsibility for six plants was maintained. As Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Television Products Division, was responsible for TV and specialty glass manufacturing and over $200 million in sales to RCA, Zenith, Philips, Sony, General Electric, Mitsubishi and Toshiba. Also had international responsibility for $100 million in equity holdings and license agreements in Japan, Korea, China, India, the U.S.S.R., East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Europe.

Military service: Served five years as a pilot in the United States Air Force with the Strategic Air Command, primarily at Whiteman AFB, MO.

Education: University of South Carolina – B.S. in Accounting.

Past or present member of: National Association of Realtors, Missouri Association of Realtors, St. Louis Association of Realtors, Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) Institute, Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) Network, International Consortium of Real Estate Associations (ICREA) and Board Member and Treasurer of the Greater St. Louis China Business Forum, Inc.

Interests: Activities in St. Louis with wife,
Helen, two married children, six grandchildren and friends; golf; gardening and travel.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
CELL: (314) 308-3238; OFF: (314) 291-1200
EMAIL: [email protected]
ADDRESS: Office: 3801 McKelvey Road, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63044
Residence: 15339 Oaktree Estates Drive, Chesterfield, MO 63017-5462

LAWYERS REALTY CO., LLC—is a specialty, boutique sized real estate Company, providing real estate brokerage (landlord / tenant, buyer / seller representation), development, property management and consulting services. We offer decades of experience in maximizing the value of real estate portfolios, and creating value out of real estate assets. Our background and experience provides us with a unique skill set that sets us apart from other real estate companies, and when applied to satisfying your real estate and related needs allows us to achieve the highest level of success for you.
Our team members have successfully done so for companies in many different facets of real estate such as: financial service companies (such as Bank of Springfield, Frontenac Bank and Regions Bank); restaurants (such as Smashburger, Menchie's Frozen Yogurt and Katie's Pizza & Pasta, Piccadilly Cafeterias, Hooters, Panera, Inc. and others); major developers (such as McEagle Corporation and TriStar Properties); industrial companies such as 24/7 Express Logistics, United Bags Inc., Cleanforce / Everland Corporation; major retailers like SuperValu and Family Dollar / Dollar Tree as well as individual investors.
We provide a complete set of services including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, site selection, build to suit development, consulting and can arrange for the provision of legal services. We can put the entire team together from project conception to project completion—to give you the results you desire. We have done so for the companies mentioned above as well as many others.
Lawyers Realty team members include attorneys, individuals trained in and accustomed to dealing with the legal issues and complexities associated with real estate transactions in today's world. While we don't replace your existing attorney, in acting as your real estate professional, we can be an adjunct to your legal team in ways that make them more time I cost efficient while providing a unique knowledge and insight! We can also arrange to provide for legal services through a variety of sources to best suit your specific needs whether it be zoning, leasing, purchase and sales, construction or otherwise real estate or transactional related.

WE SOURCE AND ALIGN OURSELF WITH THE VERY BEST... TO GET THE BEST JOB DONE!

Sample Clients:

Let's discuss how we can do business together — how we can assist you with maximizing the value of your real estate and its function within your company or portfolio!

PRINCIPLED APPROACH

One of our guiding principals and philosophical approaches to our business is that we strive first and foremost to do the very best job for our clients - to treat them fairly and honestly, to provide them with the highest level of professionalism, dedication, competency and service while acting in their best interest, and that in our dealing with honest, trustworthy and likeminded clients, the financial reward for our efforts will flow as a natural consequence of the great work we do for and living up to or surpassing our commitments to our clients!

Contact: David A. Wright, Esq.
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LAWYERS REALTY CO., LLC

www.lawyersrealtyco.com

Phone
Ofc: (314) 291-1200
cell: (314) 422-1689
Email
[email protected]