Cindi E. Cohen

Cindi Cohen is a real estate and commercial lending attorney who helps developers, property owners, and borrowers with real estate, business, and lending transactions throughout Maryland, Washington, DC, and Virginia.

For more than three decades, Cindi has brought keen attention to detail to negotiating and documenting business transactions for her clients. These include commercial real estate purchases, sales, and leasing. She also serves as lending counsel to both banks and borrowers and as an authorized representative of Lerch Early in its capacity as a title agent for two national title insurance companies.

In addition, lawyers outside the Washington, DC area frequently seek Cindi’s experience as local counsel for both real estate and lending matters. She also serves as title agent for national title companies in various multimillion-dollar acquisition and loan transactions.

In her leisure time, Cindi enjoys taking luxury cruises with her husband and exploring the world’s wines as an avid oenophile.

• Act as title agent for The Tower Companies in redevelopment of the Blairs, a 27-acre mixed-use project in downtown Silver Spring to achieve additional density of 1,400 apartments and 300,000 SF of office and retail uses, for total site development of 2,800 apartments and 450,000 SF of non-residential uses (hotel, retail, office).
• Assisted luxury auto group located in Maryland to acquire two dealerships in Pennsylvania.
• Assisted petroleum distributor in acquiring 26 Exxon service stations in New Jersey, with financing from M&T Bank.
• Assisted developer in negotiating an acquisition from WMATA for the redevelopment of property in Prince George’s County, Maryland as a mixed-use project.

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., cum laude, 1981)
• Middlebury College (B.A. in Political Science, cum laude, 1978)

Admissions

• Maryland
• District of Columbia
• Virginia

Ranked AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings

• Maryland State Bar Association
• District of Columbia Bar Association
• Virginia Bar Association

Publications

• Don't Mince Words When Drafting Time-Sensitive Contracts February 5, 2018
• Property Owners Face Higher Taxes in Montgomery County May 26, 2016
• Court Upholds Validity of Security Interest Where Financing Statement Was Filed Early August 3, 2015
• Negotiating a Lease? Don't Forget to Include Your SNDA, too! January 27, 2015
• Transfer and Recordation Tax Exemption May Be Extended to LLCs and Other "Business Entities" April 19, 2013
• Lingering Maryland IDOT Issue Resolved November 7, 2012
• Real Estate and Lending 2012 Legislative Update for Maryland and Virginia September 4, 2012
• New Indemnity Deed of Trust (IDOT) Alert March 1, 2012
• Further Update on Indemnity Deeds of Trust December 1, 2011
• Update on Indemnity Deeds of Trust (IDOTs) May 18, 2011
• Commercial Leasing: Three Provisions to Negotiate September 22, 2010

News

• Success Story: Virginia Retirement Community Begins Phase 2 of Construction June 12, 2015
• Tower Companies Break Ground for The Pearl April 20, 2015
• EuroMotorcars Expands in Pennsylvania February 13, 2013

• Commercial Lending
• Real Estate