Kevin A. Gliwa

Kevin Gliwa represents real estate clients in lending transactions, purchase and sale transactions and development matters. Kevin has vast experience with complicated real estate loans, representing some of the largest institutional lenders on a nationwide basis. In connection with his real estate finance work, Kevin assists his clients with loan restructurings, deed-in-lieu transactions and subsequent sales of lender-owned properties. Kevin has also represented purchasers of loan portfolios, including auction purchasers of assets of failed financial institutions.

Representative experience includes:

• Lead attorney representing national life insurance holding company in commercial real estate loan originations exceeding an aggregate of $3 billion throughout continental U.S., secured by office, retail, apartment, industrial, hotel and manufactured housing community properties, and numerous loan modifications and restructurings of existing commercial real estate loans
• Represented various lenders in restructuring and deed-in-lieu of foreclosure transactions and subsequent dispositions of acquired properties
• Represented purchaser of a major office/hotel/apartment/healthclub project in downtown Denver in acquisition financing (and subsequent refinancing) and carryback financing in connection with contemporaneous sale of a portion of project
• Represented developers of projects in annexations that resulted in more than doubling of sizes of towns of Avon and Silt, Colorado
• Represented purchasers of loan portfolios, including auction purchasers of assets of failed financial institutions, in connection with acquisitions, modifications and workouts of acquired loans and subsequent loan payoffs or sales
• Represented developer subsidiary of a public company in financings or sales and leasebacks of:  a $238,000,000 office building in downtown Denver, Colorado (highest sale price ever for an office building in Denver); three suburban office buildings in the Denver, Colorado area; a mixed use office, retail and residential condominium project in San Francisco, California; two office buildings and an operations center in Omaha, Nebraska; an office/hotel complex in Albuquerque, New Mexico; four office buildings in the Phoenix, Arizona area; and a research and development facility in Boulder, Colorado
• Represented owners of large land holdings near resort areas of Telluride and Steamboat Springs, Colorado in connection with development planning, entitlement preservation and, in one case, sale of project
• Represented large New York bank in nationwide commercial real estate construction lending program, including office, retail, hotel and condominium projects

• Downtown Denver Partnership: Leadership Denver Program (2010)

For many years, the following appeared as Kevin's website bio. It has become the stuff of legend, so we include it here:

"Kevin was raised by penguins following a childhood boating accident. He graduated magna cum laude from Colby College, where he learned that not all issues can be reduced to black or white. He received his law degree from Boston University, which he attended on a full football scholarship through an administrative error. Thereafter, he worked for four years as an associate at a large law firm in New York, where he once rode an elevator to the top of the Empire State Building. He lectures frequently to his children on a variety of subjects. An avid indoorsman, Kevin writes non-rhyming limericks. He enjoys swimming and fishing, despite the painful memories.

In the years since his original bio was published on Otten Johnson's predecessor websites, Kevin has received many bemused queries, often pertaining to the state of his health. To limit future inquiry, here are answers to some of the more frequently asked questions:  1. Emperor, not King; 2. Yes, it was cold.  Thankfully, I had a sweater; and, 3. Sushi."