Additional Practice Areas:
•   Asset-Based Lending
•   Interest Rate Swaps and Hedges
•   Public Finance including Charitable Organization Tax-Exempt Financing
•   Real Estate Lending – Workouts and Restructuring, Construction, 
    Interim and Permanent
•   Real Property Transactions and Investments

Rick Sollner joined the firm in 1974 and has been a Shareholder since 1979.  He formerly served as leader of the firm’s Real Estate and Lending Transactions practice group.

Representative Matters:
•   Represented numerous national and state banks in connection with 
    development and construction loans for shopping centers, hotels, 
    apartment and condominium projects, industrial and office parks and 
    residential subdivisions throughout Florida.
•   Represented many life and other insurance companies in connection with 
    permanent loans secured by mortgages on all types of commercial and 
    multifamily residential properties.
•   Represented borrowers and lenders as local Florida counsel in numerous 
    large multi-state loan transactions.
•   Represented Section 501(c)(3) charitable organizations in connection with 
    the issuance by public bodies of tax-exempt revenue bonds to finance 
    activities of the charitable organizations.
•   Represented borrowers and lenders in connection with numerous 
    asset-secured and unsecured revolving credit facilities.
•   Represented developers and investors in the acquisition and development 
    of apartment and condominium projects, shopping centers, hotels and 
    residential subdivisions.
•   Represented the owner and a charitable foundation in connection with the 
    conversion of a building listed in the National Register of Historic Places to a 
    condominium to create salable condominium office units and a unit for the 
    historical facade which could be donated to the charitable foundation that 
    operates theater in the building.

Education:
•   Florida State University (J.D., with highest honors), 1970
      – Florida State University Law Review, Editor-in-Chief
•   Florida State University (B.A. in History and Political Science), 1967

Bar and Court Admissions:
•   Florida

Honors & Distinctions:
•   AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale Hubbell
•   The Best Lawyers in America (Real Estate Law), 2007-2013
•   Florida Super Lawyers, 2007-2012
•   Florida Trend Legal Elite, 2010, 2011

Presentations and Publications:
Rick has authored chapters for CLE seminar manuals and been a speaker at CLE seminars on real property issues.

Professional Involvement:
•   American Bar Association
      – Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
      – Business Law Section
•   The Florida Bar       
      – Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
      – Business Law Section
•   Hillsborough County Bar Association

Community Involvement:
•   Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, 1985-present
•   Tampa Committee of 100, 1985-present