About Kenneth
Ken's practice touches all areas of real estate development including financing, real estate taxation, building and preservation code matters, rail/utility rights of way, renewable energy leases, sustainable building practices and incentives, and climate change concerns, all instrumental to achieve superior results in a variety of client transactions. Ken has transactional experience with Opportunity Zones, New Market Tax Credits, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, shopping center acquisitions, and major league sports facility developments. Ken was named a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and is certified as a specialist in Business, Commercial and Industrial Real Property Law by the Ohio State Bar Association. Ken has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2009 and Ohio Super Lawyers since 2011.Ken is a licensed title insurance agent and serves as Executive Vice President, Chairman of the Board, and Agent for Riverbend Commercial Title Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of KMK. Ken currently serves as co-leader of the firm's Real Estate Group.Representative WorkDevelopment and financing of craft brewing facilitiesOffice Leasing on Class A high-rise and suburban projectsDevelopment and financing of MLS StadiumConstruction financing of a National League Baseball StadiumOhio transactional counsel on IPO related financing for a large industrial companyActing as local development counsel on a large neighborhood housing redevelopment using LIHTCAdvise legacy companies on disposition of former railroad right of ways throughout the MidwestRepresenting a manufacturer in a building code dispute before the Ohio Board of Building AppealsProfessional & Community InvolvementCincinnati Bar Association, Real Property Committee (past Chair)Ohio State Bar Association, Committee on Specialist CertificationCincinnati Ohio Historic Conservation Board (1998-2013)Society for the Preservation of Music Hall, Board of TrusteesSAY East Cincinnati Soccer, TreasurerUnion Village Development Company, Board of DirectorsEast Wing of Kenyon College Alpha Delta Phi, Board Secretary
Representative Work
Professional & Community Involvement
Education
Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Real Estate, Cincinnati (2018)
- Recognized: Construction Law
- Recognized: Land Use and Zoning Law
- Recognized: Litigation - Real Estate
- Recognized: Real Estate Law
- Special Focus: Affordable Housing
- Special Focus: Commercial
- Special Focus: Construction
- Special Focus: COVID-19
- Special Focus: Development
- Special Focus: Natural Resources
- Special Focus: Shopping Center Transactions
- Special Focus: Tax
- Special Focus: Tax Certiorari
- Special Focus: Title Matters
- Special Focus: Transactions
- American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Fellow
- American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Bankruptcy Committee Secretary, 2012
- Listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers
- Named to Ohio Super Lawyers
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers, Class VII (2000), Fellow