Edward J. Levin, Member

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  • Clients say he is ‘fantastic: he is the lawyer of lawyers, and is always there to answer a question.’

    -Chambers USA 2017

    Ed has been named to Best Lawyers and Chambers for Real Estate Law for decades.

Contact

elevin@gfrlaw.com
410-576-1900
410-576-1900 (fax)

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As an experienced and respected real estate lawyer, Ed has learned how to help clients meet their business goals quickly and efficiently. Ed is effective because he thoroughly understands each deal, including the specific legal requirements and each party’s issues in every transaction. He tailors his services to negotiate every matter skillfully to get to closing smoothly. Equally important, clients value his experience, skills and sense of humor, which make each project as enjoyable as possible. As an experienced and respected real estate lawyer, Ed has learned how to help clients meet their business goals quickly and efficiently. Ed is effective because he thoroughly understands each deal, including the specific legal requirements and each party’s issues in every transaction. He tailors his services to negotiate every matter skillfully to get to closing smoothly. Equally important, clients value his experience, skills, and sense of humor, which make each project as enjoyable as possible. Ed considers the success of his clients his greatest professional achievement.

Ed is a Member of the firm's Real Estate practice group. He focuses on helping clients with real estate matters involving financing, leasing, purchase and sale, workouts, foreclosure, and rendering third-party opinion letters in real estate financing transactions. In transactions involving real property located in Maryland, Ed frequently serves as local counsel, working with out-of-state lawyers. Ed has vast experience in dealing with Maryland’s high recordation and transfer taxes, which are imposed at the state and local levels, and he has been able to structure financing and purchase transactions in ways that eliminate or substantially reduce these taxes. Ed also has substantial experience in rendering opinion letters in connection with business law and environmental and energy transactions. Ed has served as an expert witness on cases relating to real estate and professional liability matters.

Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized Ed as a “first-rate lawyer” and “national leader” among real estate attorneys in Maryland. 

In addition to his work for specific client matters, Ed has written over 300 articles on real estate, opinion letters, and recordation and transfer taxes and has made more than 100 presentations on these subjects. He co-authored a book on real estate leasing forms. 

Ed has been instrumental in developing and writing numerous bar and professional association reports and publications regarding third-party opinion letters. Ed has been honored by legal and mortgage banking organizations for his contributions to his profession and to the community.

Ed has been a member, and is past Chair, of the Legislative Liaison Committee of the Real Property Section of the Maryland State Bar Association for more than 40 years. Ed has drafted legislation and testified before committees of the Maryland General Assembly on topics including the Rule Against Perpetuities as it applies to commercial transactions in Maryland; the application of recordation tax to indemnity deeds of trust (IDOTs), supplemental instruments, and refinancing instruments; application of recordation and transfer taxes applicable to transfers of controlling interests in entities; naming of trustees under deeds of trust; survival of leases after foreclosure sales; certificates of preparation of assignments of leases and rents; and the Maryland Commercial Receivership Act.
 

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Contact

elevin@gfrlaw.com
410-576-1900
410-576-1900 (fax)

Links

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Teams

Real Estate

Education

J.D., University of Virginia, 1976
B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1973

Court Admissions

Maryland Court of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

Maryland, 1976