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C. Leslie Banas
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Biography
Leslie Banas counsels companies and individuals in business and real estate matters. She assists clients in organizing business entities, acquiring assets, negotiating contracts, and satisfying regulatory requirements. Her clients include entrepreneurial and established companies in the real estate, housing, service, health care, manufacturing, hospitality and other industries.
Ms. Banas represents real estate owners and investors in dealing with office, retail, hospitality, industrial and condominium properties. She helps them to assemble land, obtain entitlements and incentives and construct improvements. She negotiates leases on behalf of landlords and tenants, including retail leases with national retailers.
She also works with developers in acquiring and rehabilitating senior, market rate and affordable apartment communities, and obtaining financing through HUD, Fannie Mae, state housing agency bond offerings, and the sale of low income housing tax credits (LIHTCs).
In addition to developers, she helps manufacturers and others deal with their “corporate real estate” including leasing office space, purchasing warehouses and decommissioning obsolete plants.
Ms. Banas has successfully closed over $800M in commercial, multifamily and industrial real estate transactions, as well as over $300M in mortgage loans from financial institutions, life companies, CMBS lenders, government sponsored enterprises and other lenders.
She also assists international buyers in navigating U.S. commercial real estate industry issues when purchasing American commercial properties.
Ms. Banas has extensive experience in the structuring and capitalization of limited liability companies and other pass through entities.
In addition, Ms. Banas works with non-profit educational, health care and community organizations in organizational and governance matters, applying for grants and entering into joint venture arrangements.
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Licensed in Michigan for 49 years
State: Michigan
Acquired: 1976
No misconduct found
Location
Kemp Klein Law Firm
201 W Big Beaver Rd Ste 600, Troy, MI, 48084-4161
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Ronald Nixon
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Experience
Honors
2025
Top Lawyers, dbusiness
2025
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2025
Top Attorney - Avvo 10.0 Rated (Superb), Martindale-Avvo
2024
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2024
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2024
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2024
Top Lawyers, DBusiness
2024
Leading Lawyer, Leading Lawyers Network
2023
Michigan's Go To Lawyers - Commercial Real Estate, Michigan Lawyers Weekly
2023
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2023
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2023
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2022
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2022
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2022
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2021
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2021
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2021
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2021
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2020
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2020
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2020
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2019
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2019
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2018
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2018
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2017
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2017
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2016
100 Most Influential Women in Southeastern Michigan, Crain's Detroit Business
2016
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2015
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2014
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2013
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2013
President's Award, HAVEN
2012
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2011
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2011
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2010
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2010
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2009
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2009
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2008
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2008
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2007
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2006
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
Work Experience
2017 - Present
Shareholder, Kemp Klein Law FIrm
2009 - 2017
Managing Partner, Banas and Associates PLLC
1987 - 2009
Partner, Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn
Associations
2017 - Present
inforumMember
1988 - Present
Urban Land InstituteAdvisory Board
1980 - Present
American Bar AssociationMember
1976 - Present
State Bar of MichiganMember
2013 - 2017
inforumPresident
Sample of Legal Cases
Koons v. Walker
Success
Education
N/A
Wayne State University Law School
JD - Juris Doctor
N/A
University of Detroit Mercy
B.A.
Speaking Engagements
2023
Exploring Business & Life
The Attorney's Role in the Purchase of Commercial Property
2023
Do You Speak Purchase?
What are Some Critical Provisions in a Purchase Agreement for a Commercial Property?
2021
Do You Speak Purchase?
Examples of What Could Happen If You Don't Get a Survey on Commercial Property
2009
Publications
2023
Kemp Klein Commentator
Navigating the Financial Terms of Net Leases, Gross Leases and the Hazy Terrain In Between
2012
SBM Real Property Law Section Newsletter
Landowner Misunderstands Wetland Review Scope, Can’t Cash In
2009
SBM Real Property Law Section Newsletter
Leasing Space - A "Capital" Idea?
2008
Crain's Detroit Business
Reporter's Notebook: Honigman Committed to Hiring Women (Contributor)
2007
Crain's Detroit Business
Women in Law: Intellectual Property, Health Care Among Growth Areas for Women in Law (Contributor)
2002
Michigan Real Property Review
Caveat Member: Courts Begin to Pierce the Entity Veil, Imposing Personal Liability on LLC Members
2000
Michigan Real Property Review
HUD and Fannie Mae Requirements for Borrower Entities
1997
Michigan Real Property Review
Public Act 52: A Comprehensive Amendment of the Michigan Limited Liability Act
Languages
English