David K. McRae

Principal

Washington Area: Phone 301.575.0378 | Fax 301.575.0335
Baltimore Area: Phone 443.738.1578 | Fax 443.738.1535
dmcrae@offitkurman.com

Practice Areas
Real Estate
Banking and Finance
Business Formation and Governance
Business Transactions

Practice Focus
David McRae advises and assists clients in negotiating, documenting, and consummating real estate, business, and secured lending transactions. Mr. McRae prepares and analyzes contracts, provides legal counsel, performs due diligence, coordinates transactional details and otherwise helps clients achieve their entrepreneurial objectives. His transactional experience includes matters relating to property and business acquisitions and dispositions, residential and commercial condominium conversions, office and retail leasing (including long term ground leasing), institutional and private lending transactions, joint venture agreements, participation and profit sharing agreements, business formation and governance, private placement memoranda and subscription agreements, employment and agency agreements.

Education
J.D. (cum laude), University of Maryland, 1994
B.A., Cornell University, 1984

Bar and Court Admissions
Maryland
District of Columbia

Points of Distinction
Mr. McRae offers detailed legal and practical knowledge, a successful track record, and a steady hand in structuring, documenting, and consummating business and real estate transactions for a wide range of clients. Because he has extensive experience representing sellers as well as buyers, landlords as well as tenants, lenders as well as borrowers, and a diverse array of other clients, he dialogues skillfully and effectively with the parties and counsel on the other side of each transaction to attain his clients’ objectives and resolve differences in a professional and respectful manner. He frequently manages complex projects and has a proven ability to communicate difficult subjects in understandable terms.

Mr. McRae’s recent achievements include assisting a Maryland property owner in negotiating and completing a long term ground lease of a restaurant pad site to a major restaurant chain; assisting one of the firm’s institutional lender clients in completing numerous loan transactions (including loan participation transactions with other lenders) in several states; assisting an international business consulting firm in negotiating an agency agreement with a U.S. technology company to develop business relations with a leading oil company in Brazil and assisting a Maryland real estate investor and developer in completing a residential condominium conversion in Baltimore City. Mr. McRae has also assisted individuals with the transactions that mattered most to them, such as negotiating private loans, transferring interests in commonly owned properties, and resolving boundary line disputes with neighbors.

Previous Work
Prior to joining Offit Kurman, Mr. McRae worked for many years as a transactional real estate, business, and land use attorney in the District of Columbia. His prior experience also includes several years as a staff attorney for a national nongovernmental organization headquartered in Washington, DC working on regulatory issues. Before entering the law, he worked for over seven years in the field of marketing, technical and corporate communications for an international biotechnology corporation in Gaithersburg, Maryland and an international manufacturing corporation in Englewood, Colorado.