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Jon Butler is a shareholder and chair of the Real Estate, Banking and Finance department. His practice emphasizes commercial, retail, office, industrial, recreation/resort and residential real estate transactions including acquisition, entitlement, development, construction, land use, zoning, exchange, leasing and workout matters. Mr. Butler has extensive experience in negotiating with local, county, state and federal agencies regarding development, entitlement, land use and zoning rights and benefits. Mr. Butler has represented owners, contractors and developers of commercial and retail properties, office buildings, manufacturing and publishing concerns, residential ski and golf resort properties, condominium projects, and owners and developers of single, multifamily, and assisted living real estate projects and properties in the western United States.

Mr. Butler emphasizes conventional, conduit and complex financing, defeasance and exchange transactions. Mr. Butler is one of the few lawyers in the nation with military base closure transaction experience, having been involved in converting two former military bases under the Base Realignment and Closure Act. He is experienced in drafting, negotiating and establishing private covenants, conditions and restrictions, and public land use restrictions, zoning ordinances and institutional controls allowing for multiple use development rights in the context of complex ongoing environmental cleanup and reclamation.

Related Activities and Skills:

• Member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association.
• Member of the Corporation, Banking and Finance Section of the American Bar Association.
• Member of the Utah State Bar Real Property and Construction Law Sections.
• President, Young Lawyers Section, Utah State Bar (1989-1990).
• Ex officio member of the Utah State Bar Commission (1989-1990).
• Member of the Utah State Bar Finance Committee (1990-2005).