Handlan spends most of his professional time leading the firm’s real estate, banking and commercial financing areas, as well as working with the firm’s mergers and acquisitions area; he joined Kegler Brown in 1972.
Banking and Commercial Lending
Allen focuses on advising both lenders and borrowers in connection with complex financing transactions involving secured and unsecured multi-facility loan transactions, mezzanine financing and bond financing.
Real Estate and Financing
Allen has extensive experience with a wide variety of real estate acquisitions, sales and financings involving office buildings, hotels, parking garages, shopping malls and centers, industrial, manufacturing, warehousing and distribution facilities, and multi-family residential projects, including the negotiation, documentation and closing of such transactions with respect to assets in Ohio and throughout the United States.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Allen also focuses on counseling clients, as buyers or sellers, in connection with complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Representative industries include manufacturing, restaurant, retail, building and construction materials, technology and professional services.
Handlan spends most of his professional time leading the firm’s real estate, banking and commercial financing areas, as well as working with the firm’s mergers and acquisitions area; he joined Kegler Brown in 1972.
Banking and Commercial Lending
Allen focuses on advising both lenders and borrowers in connection with complex financing transactions involving secured and unsecured multi-facility loan transactions, mezzanine financing and bond financing.
Real Estate and Financing
Allen has extensive experience with a wide variety of real estate acquisitions, sales and financings involving office buildings, hotels, parking garages, shopping malls and centers, industrial, manufacturing, warehousing and distribution facilities, and multi-family residential projects, including the negotiation, documentation and closing of such transactions with respect to assets in Ohio and throughout the United States.
Mergers and Acquisitions Allen also focuses on counseling clients, as buyers or sellers, in connection with complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Representative industries include manufacturing, restaurant, retail, building and construction materials, technology and professional services.
Career Highlights - Recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer® by Law & Politics magazine.
- Chair of the firm’s real estate and financing practice area.
- Member of Kegler Brown’s executive committee.
- Managing director of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter from 1995 to 1999.
Professional Memberships
- American Bar Association, Banking and Business Law sections, member
- Columbus Bar Association, Real Property and Business Law committees, member
- National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP), member
- Ohio State Bar Association, Banking, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Law, Real Property and Natural Resources committees, member
- Pilot Dogs, Inc., past president; executive committee, past member; board of trustees, past member
- Pilot Guide Dog Foundation, Board of Trustees and Vice President
- Upper Arlington Rotary Club, board of directors, past member; Upper Arlington Scholarship Committee, past chair; Community Service Committee, past chair
- Whetstone Career Center, board of trustees, past member
Publications & Presentations - Bank Financing for Oil and Gas Transactions, Ohio Legal Center Institute, Oil and Gas Law, co-writer
- The Stampede to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Some Special Problems and
- Considerations Relating to Oil and Gas Workouts, Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Institute, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation
Bar Admissions - Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Military Service - First Lieutenant, United States Army Reserve, 1971-1981
Education - Juris Doctorate (1972)
University of Virginia School of Law - Bachelor of Arts, History (1969)
Ohio University
Summa cum laude, Honors; Phi Beta Kappa