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Charles L. Menges
Partner 
One James Center
cmenges@mcguirewoods.com901 East Cary Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030 F: 804.698.2119
Court Square Building, 310 Fourth Street, N.E., Suite 300
P.O. Box 1288 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902-1288 F: 434.980.2222    |
Mr. Menges counsels clients on business transactions, primarily in the real estate industry and in the banking and finance sector. Resident in the Richmond and Charlottesville offices, his practice ranges from locally based matters to multistate and national transactions to international projects.
In the real estate area, Mr. Menges handles commercial real estate transactions of all types including the sale, purchase, development, financing, leasing and management of both unimproved land and existing commercial projects. He also represents clients in connection with planned communities such as residential subdivisions, golf course communities and mixed-use projects. He has extensive experience representing real estate investment trusts, and in forming and representing joint ventures and other types of entities in the real estate industry.
He chairs the firm's Hospitality and Resorts Group, and has extensive experience representing owners and developers of hotels and resorts, including negotiating purchase and sale agreements, management agreements and franchise agreements, as well as advising hotels, private resort clubs and other hospitality clients on meeting contracts, vendor relationships, membership issues and other matters.
In the banking and finance area, Mr. Menges represents institutional lenders and corporate borrowers in a variety of financing transactions, whether real estate-based or otherwise, including asset-based loans, unsecured investment grade lending, syndicated credits of various types, synthetic lease transactions, M&A financings, conduit lending/securitization, sale of loan portfolios, loan workouts and restructuring, and portfolio mortgage loans.
He co-chairs the firm's Real Estate Capital Markets Group, where he is involved in mezzanine loan transactions, sale-leasebacks, TIC (tenant-in-common) transactions and real estate equity funds, as well as more conventional real estate finance transactions.
He also chairs the firm's Opinion Committee and has lectured extensively on opinion practice.
- Capital Markets
- Commercial Lending
- Project Finance
- Real Estate Finance
- Hospitality & Resorts
- International Transactions
- Named One of the "Best Lawyers in America," Woodward/White, Inc., 2010-2011
- Named a Virginia "Super Lawyer," Law & Politics, 2007-2010
- RF&P Corporation (real investment trust), Richmond, Virginia, General Counsel, 1996-1997
- "Attorney Opinion Letters," Real Estate Transactions in Virginia (2008 Edition), Virginia CLE Publications
- "Pandemics: The Legal Issue for the Hospitality Industry," (Co-authored with Joseph P. McMenamin), Hospitality.com Monthly Newsletter, November 2006
- "Minimizing the Lead Lender's Liability to Co-lenders in Syndicated Loans," 19 Practical Real Estate Lawyer, March 2003
- "An Agent's Liability to Co-lenders in Syndicated Loan Transactions," 17 Probate & Property, January/February 2003
- "Distressed Hotel Loans," Practicing Law Institute
- "Land Acquisition and Development for Hotels," Hospitality Law Conference
- "After the Loan is Closed: Attorneys' Opinions in Connection with Loan Assumptions, Modifications and Defeasances," ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
- "Commercial Real Estate Financing in Virginia," Lorman Education Services
- "Selected Issues on Mortgage Securitization and Loan Servicing," American College of Mortgage Attorneys, October 2, 2004
- "Current Trends from Lender's In-house Counsel," ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Symposium, May 12, 2004
- "Agent's Liability to Co-lenders in Syndicated Loans," ABA Business Law Section
- "Issues in Documenting and Closing Nontraditional Real Estate Loans," ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
- "Recent Legislative Changes and Current Case Developments in Real Estate Practice," Richmond Bar Association
- "Legal Opinions in Real Estate Closings," Virginia CLE
- "Mortgages and Leases: Preserving the Lender's Options in Foreclosures and Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure," ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
- "Filed Rates: Is Virginia Next?" Virginia Bar Association
- "Mechanics Lien Coverage in the 1990s: Handling Real Estate Transactions Under Virginia's Revised Mechanics' Lien Statute," Virginia Bar Association
- "Financing with Synthetic Leases"
- "Title Matters Affecting Corridor Development," American Railway Development Association
- "Advanced Real Estate Finance," International CLE
- Virginia Bar Association
- Past Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Member of Real Estate Section Council
- Past Chairman, Real Estate Section Opinion Letter Committee
- Past Chairman, Real Estate Section Legislative Committee
- Member, Business Law Section
- Member, Real Estate Section
- Virginia State Bar
- Member, Real Property Section
- American Bar Association
- Past Chairman, Securitization and Special Financing Techniques, ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
- Past Chairman, Committee on Nontraditional Finance, ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
- Real Property, Probate, Property and Trust Section
- Business Law Section
- Member, Legal Opinions Committee, ABA Business Law Section
- Member, Law Firm Advisory Board, Working Group on Legal Opinions
- Jackson Feild Homes
- Past President, Board of Trustees
- The Jackson Feild Homes Foundation
- Past Member, Board of Trustees
- West Richmond Little League, Inc.
- Past Member, Board of Directors
- The Steward School
- Past Chairman, Board of Trustees
- The Steward School Foundation
- Chairman, Board of Trustees
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EDUCATION University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, J.D., 1977
The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, A.B., 1974 FRATERNITIES OR SORORITIES Sigma Alpha Epsilon ADMITTED Virginia 1977 U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit PLACE OF BIRTH Newport News, Virginia |