Biography

Richard Riggs concentrates his practice in real estate and other commercial transactions.  He regularly represents clients in negotiating and closing real estate purchases and sales, real estate leasing and financing transactions and secured transactions in personal property.  Those transactions have included real estate developments facilitated through federal, state and local government incentives, including tax increment financing.  In addition to his participation in project finance transactions, Richard regularly represents borrowers in connection with syndicated credit facilities.

Richard also represents clients involved in the emerging field of renewable energy.  This has included representation of an international developer of wind farms in its Oklahoma activities.

Richard has published papers and presented continuing education seminars on real estate acquisition and finance, loan foreclosures and workouts, commercial leasing and secured transactions.  He was a contributor to The Commercial Property Lease, published by the ABA in 1993 and to State-By-State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases, published by Aspen Publishers in 2004. 

Richard's work in the field of real estate has earned him inclusion in Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America and Oklahoma Super Lawyers.  He has also been elected to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.  In 2003, he taught Real Estate Transactions as an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Representative Experience Representation of parties to the following types of real estate transactions throughout the United States:              Purchases and sales       Exchanges       Industrial, office and retail leasing       Ground leasing       Project financing Representation of borrowers in connection with secured and unsecured credit facilities Representation of parties to equipment and other personal property financing transactions Representation of nonprofit entities in real estate transactions Representation of developers in transactions utilizing tax increment financing and other federal, state and local government incentives Representation of parties to transactions related to wind energy projects

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