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The BMD Orlando Team Closes $81.5 Million Real Estate Land Transaction

Client Spotlight, News Article

The BMD Orlando Team successfully closed a $81.5 million and 1,800-acre real estate land transaction as part of a massive land deal. The legal team included BMD Member and lead attorney Robert Q. Lee, Senior Counsel Kim Gray, Member Scott Rost, Senior Counsel Audrey Wanich, paralegal support from Jacquie Carson and Sylvie Camille, along with administrative support from Natalie Ortiz. The team represented Arnold Groves and Ranch, Ltd. in the sale of 1,800 acres of real estate to GT USA, which may be the largest contiguous land sale in Central Florida.

With BMD’s collaborative efforts, Senior Counsel Kim Nguyen Gray’s led the transaction and negotiations to a successful closing. BMD Member Robert Q. Lee brought his extensive national real estate experience to this complex transaction that involved developer type ancillary transactions/agreements, including right of first refusal and retainage parcels carve outs, developer rights and agreements, access and utility easements, agricultural leases, wildlife corridor reservation, complicated generational title issue clean-ups, and more.

Read more about this record-setting deal in this Orlando Business Journal article. (You will need a subscription to the Orlando Business Journal to read this article.)

Contact one of these Orlando real estate team members: Senior Counsel Kim Gray at 689.220.4264, Member Scott Rost at 407.634.4590, or Senior Counsel Audrey Wanich at 407.362.1755.


BMD Client Spotlight: AxessPointe Community Health Centers

BMD is happy to share background on our client AxessPointe. Client Contacts: Mark Frisone, Interim CEO Jay Williamson, MD, Board President Industry: AxessPointe Community Health Centers is a federally qualified health center (FQHC) serving patients throughout Summit and Portage counties, including five current sites in Northeast Ohio: three in Akron, one in Kent and one in Barberton. As an FQHC, AxessPointe is a non-profit corporation that delivers primary medical, dental and preventive health services in medically underserved areas. AxessPointe also provides pharmacy, women’s health and behavioral health services. Across all five sites, AxessPointe currently employs 130 total medical and administrative staff. In 2019, they served more than 21,000 individual patients, with more than 66,000 encounters.

BMD Client Spotlight: Eating Recovery Center

With 6,500 patients per year, locations across 7 states, and daily long-term support capabilities, ERC and Pathlight comprise the nation’s leading mental health care system dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders and primary mood, anxiety and trauma-related disorders. They aim to patch the need for more specialized behavioral health treatment across the country. ERC and Pathlight fill the gap with developmentally appropriate treatment that includes: An expert care team that coordinates therapeutic, psychiatric, medical and dietary needs of each patient Evidence-based psychotherapy treatment, with emphasis on exposure therapy to develop and practice new skills Intensive Treatment Units for patients with complex medical and/or behavioral needs Unmatched family programming with expanded spaces dedicated to family therapy and skill-building Round-the-clock nursing supervision and support An education specialist who oversees patients' academic needs, so they don’t fall behind in school

David Scott & Amanda Waesch Promoted to Vice President Roles as Part of Continued Succession Planning

Brennan, Manna and Diamond (BMD), an entrepreneurial business law firm with six offices in Ohio and Florida, has promoted Columbus Office Managing Partner David Scott and Executive Committee Member Amanda Waesch to the position of Vice President.

'Culture, Culture, Culture’: The Essence of Printing Industry M&A Deals

BMD/Signet's Tony Manna interviewed by Printing Impressions

Signet’s Anthony Manna: U.S. Deal Activity Remains Steady As China Responds To Coronavirus

“When SARS came around (in February 2003), China had about 4 percent of the global supply chain,” says Manna, founder, principal and chairman at the global private investment firm. “Now they have 16 percent, and you see this massive stimulus package being put in place to combat the coronavirus problem. China has already announced that they’re going to have more stimulus packages.”