Kim JoDene Donat
612/341.9721
kdonat@bestlaw.com

Kim JoDene Donat is an associate at Best & Flanagan LLP, focusing in the areas of commercial real estate lending, financial institution and mortgage lending investment regulations and business law.

She has represented clients financing office, retail, residential, hotel and other real estate projects.   Kim has also utilized her Spanish language skills, developed as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, to represent American companies in trans-border transactions in Mexico.

EXPERIENCE

• Representation of lender in a $17,000,000.00 retail Anchorage Deed of Trust transaction.
• Representation of lender in a $24,000,000.00 four property, three state Major Hotel Franchise mortgage financing transaction.
• Representation of lender in state-specific regulatory schemes, regulating corporate authority to transact business and licensing of non-federally regulated mortgage lending institutions.
• Representation of a nation-wide financial institution in financing of a broad range of property types including retail, industrial, office, hotel, multi-family and charter schools involving complex ownership and structures including leasehold and tenant-in-common interests.
• Representation of lender in 1031 Exchange transactions and condominium financings.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
American Bar Association
Minnesota State Bar Association
Hennepin County Bar Association

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
Staff Member, Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, 2002-2003

PUBLICATIONS

Engineering Akerlof Lemons: Information Asymmetry, Externalities and Market Intervention in the Genetically Modified Food Market, 12 MIN. J. GLOBAL TRADE 417 (2003)