Katherine Franck focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions. She regularly advises developers and investors on the acquisition, disposition, financing, development, and leasing of commercial properties. She represents landlords and tenants on commercial lease agreements for a variety of properties across the United States, including retail shopping centers, mixed-use projects, office buildings, medical offices, and industrial properties. She also assists clients on development needs such as declarations, restrictive covenants, easements, and subdivisions.
In addition, she reviews title reports and surveys, manages closings, helps determine realty transfer taxes, drafts broker agreements and tenant estoppel letters, and coordinates 1031 exchanges, all related to the acquisition and disposition of commercial properties. She has advised clients on real estate financing as well, including drafting and reviewing promissory notes, mortgages, and balloon riders.
Her experience also includes working with professional athletes, influencers, and other talent-based and retail clients on entity formation, organization, and operation needs. She has worked with these same clients on brand partnerships and endorsements and represented creators of popular video channels on their intellectual property needs such as video licensing proposals. For luxury retail clients, she has drafted franchise, distribution, and sales representation agreements.
In previous roles, Katherine worked for one of the 100 largest global law firms and served as an in-house counsel extern for a leading industrial technology company.
Katherine earned her law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as a staff member and articles and notes editor with the North Carolina Banking Institute Journal. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina.
Outside of work, Katherine enjoys reading, tennis, cooking, interior design, and traveling.