Joseph W. Creech

Representative Matters

• Represented a national pension fund advisor in connection with the acquisition, financing, development, and disposition of core multifamily, office, data center flex/industrial, and retail properties valued at more than $2.5 billion and located in major metropolitan areas in Maryland, Arizona, Virginia, Florida, Illinois, New Mexico, California, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina
• Represented a prominent institutional investor in connection with the joint venture acquisition of an existing loan with a pre-packaged deed-in-lieu of foreclosure agreement, as well as related financing
• Represented a prominent national retail chain in developing a mixed-use project that involved negotiation of an air rights purchase agreement, a project development agreement, and a condominium declaration
• Represented a state employees retirement fund involving a $194 million credit facility secured by multifamily projects located in four states
• Represented an investment advisor to a state employees retirement fund in connection with the joint venture acquisition and development of core industrial properties in Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Georgia
• Represented an institutional investor in connection with the joint venture acquisition and financing of a multifamily housing asset in Brooklyn, New York subject to the city’s 421-a program
• Represented a prominent institutional lender in the origination of a $95 million convertible construction loan
• Represented a commercial developer in the joint venture acquisition and subsequent financing of a $124 million office project located in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.
• Represented a prominent sporting goods retailer with leasing activities in the Washington, DC metropolitan area
• Represented an institutional investor in connection with the acquisition of outstanding shares of common equity interests in REITs that owned multifamily and industrial assets in Texas and New York, respectively
• Represented a REIT in the acquisition and financing of a $62 million mixed-use property in downtown Los Angeles
• Represented a REIT in a build-to-suit industrial lease to a publicly traded company for more than 900,000 rentable square feet
• Represented a joint venture industrial developer in the leasing, financing, and construction of multiple million square foot distribution facilities in the mid-Atlantic
• Represented an institutional developer in the acquisition, financing, development, and leasing of industrial and medical office building projects in Maryland, as well as the negotiation of associated joint venture agreements

Education

• J.D. Duke University School of Law 2004
• • Special projects editor, Duke Law Journal
• B.A. English cum laude Duke University 2001

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Georgia

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Member, American Bar Association 
• Member, District of Columbia Bar
• Member, State Bar of Georgia
• Adjunct faculty, Duke University School of Law, 2022 – present
• Adjunct faculty, Georgetown School of Continuing Studies, 2023 – present
• Fellow, American College of Real Estate Lawyers
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation

• Chambers USA, Real Estate (Band 3), District of Columbia, 2020 – 2024
• The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law, 2020 – 2025

Volunteerism

• Board chair, DC History Center