Christian Stoffan is a commercial real estate attorney who represents investors, developers, owners, operators, lenders, landlords, and tenants in a broad range of sophisticated real estate and corporate transactions.

His practice spans the full life cycle of commercial real estate assets, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, financing, leasing, and strategic ownership matters across a variety of property types.

Chris routinely advises clients in transactions involving office, industrial, flex, retail, multifamily, mixed-use and specialized commercial properties. A substantial portion of his practice is devoted to representing landlords and tenants in complex leasing matters. Chris also regularly represents borrowers and lenders in real estate-secured financing transactions, including acquisition financing, cash-out refinancing, construction financing, agency lending and traditional mortgage loans.

Chris works closely with clients on transaction structuring, due diligence, entity formation, corporate governance and related business matters, allowing him to provide practical and comprehensive counsel across both the real estate and operational aspects of a transaction.

Chris has previously been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America for Corporate Law and Real Estate Law.

Representative Matters

  • Represent real estate investors in the acquisition, finance, refinance and disposition of multifamily properties.
  • Represent owners and tenants of high-rise office buildings in Pittsburgh’s Central Business District.
  • Represent business owners in the acquisition, finance, leasing and disposition of commercial real estate ventures, including the negotiation of purchase and sale agreements, due diligence support, land use matters, negotiation of lease agreements, loan documentation, together with related business entity formation and corporate guidance.
  • Represent lenders and borrowers in connection with various types of real estate financing transactions (including Agency and traditional mortgage loans).
  • Represent one of the largest banks in the United States in connection with dispositions and leasing transactions.
  • Represented publicly traded biotech company in build-to-suit lease agreement and eventual exercise of purchase option for 150,000 square foot state-of-the-art pharmaceutical manufacturing facility.
  • Represented client in acquisition of 333-acre multi-modal transloading facility located along the Ohio River.
  • Represented leading supplier and distributor of commercial construction products with 23 branch locations in 15 states in equity sale to a U.S. subsidiary of a publicly traded Swiss company.
  • Represented client in acquisition of a gated apartment community including more than 500 apartment units and corresponding amenities.

Core Strengths

  • Real estate
  • Corporate and securities

Professional Affiliations & Honors

  • Member, Allegheny County Bar Association – Real Property Section
  • Member, NAIOP

Education

  • BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2010
  • JD, Wake Forest University School of Law, 2013, Recipient of CALI Excellence for the Future Award® – Community Law and Business Clinic

Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • North Carolina