Overview

Rick Sollner joined the firm in 1974. He formerly served as leader of the firm's Real Estate and Lending Transactions Practice Group. His practice includes 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, and real property transactions and investments.

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.

Honors and Distinctions

• AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• The Best Lawyers in America (Real Estate Law), 2005-2021
• Chambers USA Ranked, Real Estate, 2014-2018
• Florida Super Lawyers, 2007-2020 (10+ year recognition)
• Florida Trend Legal Elite, 2010, 2011

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

News

• Fifty-Four Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2021
• Forty Seven Attorneys Recognized in Florida Super Lawyers 2020
• Forty-Six Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2020
• Forty-Nine Attorneys Recognized in Florida Super Lawyers 2019
• Forty Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2019
• Forty Seven Trenam Attorneys Recognized in Florida Super Lawyers 2018
• Trenam Law Receives High Marks by Prestigious Chambers and Partners For 2018
• Thirty Four Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2018
• Forty-Five Trenam Attorneys Recognized in Florida Super Lawyers 2017
• Forty Two Trenam Lawyers Named to the 2016 Florida Super Lawyers and 2016 Florida Rising Stars Lists

Thought Leadership

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