Edward J. Leader

Ed is a trusted advisor to clients in all aspects of real estate development, including the acquisition, financing, leasing, construction, operation, disposition, and exchanging of complex commercial, retail, office, industrial, and multi-family real estate. He also serves as a business advisor to clients in structuring real estate and other investment transactions and negotiating complex contractual arrangements.

Ed’s experience includes joint ventures, commercial finance, loan workouts and foreclosures, front-end construction documents, real estate bankruptcy issues, tax valuation complaints, and the real estate aspects of corporate acquisitions, dispositions, and mergers.

Ed also helps drive Taft’s conversation, commitment, training, and action plans to foster diversity and inclusion as a member of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Presenter, “The Current State of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities: New and Existing Loans,” Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Department of Continuing Legal Education’s 45th Annual Real Estate Law Institute, November 2, 2023.

Author, “Contractual Anti-Reliance Provisions vs. Buyer Fraud Claims,” Northeast Ohio Properties Magazine, Feb. 17, 2023.

Executive Order by Ohio Governor Affects Commercial Mortgage Lenders, April 2, 2020.

Executive Order by Ohio Governor Affects Commercial Landlords, April 2, 2020.

Co-author, “Contractor Licensing Laws,” The Architect’s Guide to Design-Build Services, The American Institute of Architects, 2003.