Leslie Horton Gladfelter

Ms. Gladfelter specializes in commercial real estate transactions, business acquisitions, land use and development approvals and transactional due diligence. She has represented major national, regional and local real estate developers in all aspects of development, with particular expertise in mixed use planned communities, subdivision and property owners’ documentation, shopping center and office development and leasing, and land condominiums and mixed use condominium documentation. 

Ms. Gladfelter assists developers and business owners with due diligence and documentation in connection with the acquisition of businesses and development parcels. Her transactional due diligence experience has included multiple multi-million dollar transactions throughout the State of Florida, and particularly in the City of Tampa, Hillsborough County and Manatee and Sarasota counties. Such transactions also include developer and business owner representation in closing and financing such transactions, issuing title insurance for complex commercial real estate transactions and assisting clients with post-closing construction documentation and business and development permits and approvals.

The recent economic challenges in the real estate and business communities have allowed Ms. Gladfelter to expand her transactional expertise to include issues and planning related to bankruptcy, title insurance and lien issues arising in connection with the purchase and sale of troubled real estate parcels and businesses. Working closely with the firm’s bankruptcy department, she and the firm provide well-versed representation of clients buying or selling real estate or businesses saddled with such issues.