Profile

Craig Lynch brings more than 25 years of experience to his commercial real estate practice, which concentrates on three principal types of clients: health care providers, franchisees of national brands and foreign entities pursuing in-bound U.S. real estate opportuntiites.

Mr. Lynch has proven success in developing pragmatic solutions to obstacles standing in the way of achieving client objectives and goals. By taking a true proprietary interest in his clients’ matters, he successfully enables buyers, sellers, borrowers, lenders, developers, owners, tenants and landlords to navigate all of the challenges typically encountered in real property transactions.

Working from a strategic business perspective, Mr. Lynch complements his counsel of real estate clients with his more than six years of commercial litigation experience. In addition, prior to practicing law, he spent two years in business and marketing for a FORTUNE Top 25 corporation.

Experience Highlights

• Site evaluations, contract negotiations, title examinations and closings in connection with the acquisition, assemblage and disposition of real property
• Development transactions, including due diligence, restrictive covenants, architectural guidelines, development agreements, easements and license agreements
• Options to purchase and rights of first refusal
• Acquisition, construction and permanent loans
• Leases and ground leases
• Construction contracts
• Intercreditor agreements and pledge agreements
• Foreclosure proceedings and work-outs on behalf of secured lenders
• Real estate disputes in federal and state appellate proceedings, litigation actions, bankruptcy proceedings and arbitration proceedings

Project History

Mr. Lynch has handled virtually every type of commercial real estate transaction imaginable, including transactions involving medical facilities, sports and entertainment venues, automobile dealerships and service centers, manufacturing plants, distribution and trucking facilities and warehouses, office buildings, hotels, apartment complexes, retirement communities, shopping centers, restaurants, retail facilities, golf courses and tennis clubs, universities, farms, dairies and feed mills, forests and timberlands, coal mines, soil, mineral and water rights, parking facilities, marinas, churches, and single-family, multi-family and mixed-use developments.

News

• Craig Lynch Receives 2013 Citizen Lawyer Award
  April 23, 2013
• Forty-Four Parker Poe Attorneys Named 2013 NC Super Lawyers
  January 18, 2013
• 74 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2013
  August 23, 2012
• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012
• 69 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2012
  September 6, 2011
• Craig Lynch Named to National Board of Directors
  July 29, 2011
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• Lynch Receives National MS Society's Highest Honor
  August 14, 2010

Memberships

• National Multiple Sclerosis Society
  Secretary, Member of Executive Committee, Area Vice-Chairman and Board of Directors, 2003-present
• Florida State University Alumni Association
  National Board of Directors, Board of Trustees Designee, 2011-2014
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law Alumni Association
  Board of Directors, 2008-present
• Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
  Land Use Committee, 1999-present
• Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
  Chairman, Recruiting Committee, 1996-2002