Lawrence F. Haislip concentrates his practice in the representation of owners, developers, borrowers and lenders in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including zoning and land use issues; land development; sales and acquisitions; land acquisition, development and construction financing transactions; sale-leaseback transactions; real property tax appeals; condominiums, homeowners' associations and planned unit developments; as well as the organization and operation of corporations, partnerships, business trusts and limited liability companies for real estate purposes. He has extensive experience in commercial leasing, as well as in all aspects of title insurance as applied to commercial real estate acquisition and financing transactions.
Larry has worked on many significant commercial real estate transactions throughout Maryland. He served as counsel to the master developer of the planned community of White Marsh, Maryland for over twenty-five years, as well as counsel to Bainbridge Development Corporation, in connection with the redevelopment of the 1,200-acre former U.S. Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland, into a planned mixed-use community. Larry was also counsel to East Baltimore Development, Inc., the owner and developer of an 80-acre New East Baltimore renewal project in Baltimore City. As special counsel to Harford and Cecil Counties, Larry was instrumental in obtaining State legislative authority to permit those counties to create special taxing districts to finance infrastructure projects. He advised Cecil County, Maryland on water and wastewater issues, assisting the county in its sale and privatization of parts of its water and wastewater systems, as well as the acquisition of the wastewater system of the Town of Port Deposit. He also represented Cecil County in a significant inter-jurisdictional rate-setting matter before the Maryland Public Service Commission.
Larry also has extensive experience in structuring tax-deductible conservation easements, and served as a director of The Manor Conservancy, Inc., which is dedicated to rural preservation in the area of My Lady's Manor, in northern Baltimore County and northwest Harford County, Maryland.
He also served as an instructor at the University of Maryland's University College, where he lectured on real property. He was a frequent continuing legal education lecturer/presenter on real property matters.
