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John A Barbour

John A. Barbour, a shareholder with Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling of Pittsburgh, was interviewed regarding corporate director liability for American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel. The show was titled “Pittsburgh Business Review.”

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Mr. Barbour practices real estate and corporate law, particularly real estate development and financing. He serves as as president and managing shareholder of Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling of Pittsburgh. His experiences include the representation of developers, banks, insurance companies and pension funds in a wide variety of real estate development and construction projects and permanent financings.

Mr. Barbour has represented developers in all aspects of commercial office development ranging from major downtown high-rise office buildings to suburban office complexes, major regional malls, hotels, multi-use "flex space" projects, medical office buildings and condominiums. His real estate lending experience includes representation of lenders in real estate debt financings ranging from acquisition debt to construction and renovation. He also deals with leasehold and permanent financing on a senior and subordinate basis, involving office, retail, shopping center, residential and health care projects.

Recent significant projects for which Mr. Barbour has been primary counsel include:

• Representing the Pittsburgh Steelers in the negotiation and documentation in development, leasing, construction and multi-layered financing of Heinz Field in Pittsburgh.
• Negotiation and documentation of an option agreement, development agreement, ground leasing and financing of the acreage between Heinz Field and PNC Park for use as a first-class urban mixed use development.
• Representing a developer in purchase of land, construction and permanent financing and leasing of a mid-rise office tower to a Fortune 100 company.
• Counsel for equity investment by a pension fund in a regional mall valued in excess of $100 million in the Southeast United States.
• Representing the purchaser of a large hotel complex in the Southwest United States.
• Counsel for the owner in connection with the purchase and multi-layered financing (including tax increment financing) of the conversion of a dilapidated historic office building into a first-class hotel.
• Borrower’s counsel in numerous securitized financings involving office buildings and retail centers.
• Developer’s counsel for several large suburban residential single-family housing projects.
• Purchase of land and the development and financing of numerous large urban and suburban apartment complexes for one of the nation’s largest apartment developers.
• All aspects of the leasing, financing and conversion of the old Allegheny County Jail into a modern juvenile court facility through the use of an “annual appropriations” lease and issuance of certificates of participation in that lease. Synthetic leasing of commercial facilities throughout the United States.

Additionally, Mr. Barbour has been a frequent lecturer on a variety of real estate development related subjects, including synthetic leases, securitized financings and legal opinions.

Mr. Barbour also is the Board Chairman of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and is a Life Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Institute. He received a bachelor's degree from Davidson College in 1976 cum laude and a juris doctorate degree from Vanderbilt University in 1979.