Areas of Practice:
- Commercial Real Estate
- General Business Law
- Land Use
Bar Admissions:
- Florida, 1998
- District of Columbia, 1999
- Maryland, 2000
- Virginia, 2001
Education:
- J.D., 1997
University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, Florida
Honors: with honors - B.A., 1994
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Professional Associations:
- Maryland State Bar Association
- Real Property, Planning and Zoning Section Council, At-Large Member, 2007 -- Present
- Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland
- Business Law Section Advisory Council, Member, 2008 -- Present
- International Conference of Shopping Centers
- U.S. Shopping Center Law Conference Round Table Speaker 2009, 2010
- Urban Land Institute, Washington District Council
- Virginia Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division Executive Council, 2003 -- 2005
- Chair, Virginia Non-Profit Legal Support Program
Publications and Seminars:
- The Next Stage of the Vested Rights Debate: The Virginia Supreme Court Validates the General Assembly's Codification - And More - In Suffolk BZA v. City of Suffolk., The Fee Simple, Virginia State Bar Association, Real Property Section, Volume XXIV, Number 2, 2004
Marc B. Bergoffen
Principal
Marc B. Bergoffen concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial real estate and business transactions. Mr. Bergoffen's transaction practice focuses on a variety of real estate matters with an emphasis on the acquisition, disposition, management, leasing and financing of various real estate properties, such as office buildings, shopping centers, and apartment complexes. His transaction experience includes:
- Representation of the Maryland Department of Transportation as outside real estate counsel in joint development projects across the State of Maryland, including the largest Transit-Oriented Development in the history of the State of Maryland;
- Representation of the State Retirement and Pension System of Maryland in connection with its various real estate investment programs;
- Representation of a professional sports league players' union with respect to its real estate assets;
- Representation of a national real estate investment trust in the acquisition and leasing of a 2.8 million square foot portfolio of office buildings in Rosslyn, Virginia;
- Representation of a national real estate investment trust in the acquisition and financing of investment grade office, multifamily and industrial/warehouse properties throughout the country;
- Representation of a regional real estate investment company with respect to statutory tenants' rights issues in the sale of various multi-family properties in suburban Maryland and the District of Columbia;
- Representation of a regional petroleum jobber in the acquisition and operation of real estate and distributorship interests in several hundred service stations across the country; and
- Representation of a national golf course owner and manager in the structuring of a joint venture to acquire a portfolio of golf courses in Virginia.
Mr. Bergoffen is admitted to practice in the State of Maryland, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Florida. He is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association (Real Property, Zoning and Land Use Section) where is a member of the Council Section and the District of Columbia Bar (Real Estate Housing and Land Use Section). Mr. Bergoffen is also active in the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Washington District Council of the Urban Land Institute.
Mr. Bergoffen received his Bachelor of Arts from Emory University in 1994 and his Juris Doctor with honors from the University of Florida School of Law in 1997 where he received the Book Award for Outstanding Student in Trial Practice. Following law school, Mr. Bergoffen clerked for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Seminole County, Florida. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Bergoffen was associated with the Washington, DC office of Goulston & Storrs.