Contact

mike@thegibsonlegalgroup.com

317-721-7879

Mike Lang is a transactional attorney and business and real estate advisor. He has spent 17 years helping clients grow their businesses and develop projects that produce strong financial results and make sense to the end-user. Mike spent over five years working on complex redevelopments with Simon Property Group, one of the largest retail and mixed use developers in the U.S. These redevelopments have included large format health clubs, multi-family, luxury big-box tenants, national discount brands, and restaurants. In many cases, those transactions included extensive construction or buildouts.

Mike helps his clients proactively and strategically grow and protect their businesses and real estate. He works with his clients to understand their business, tax, and compliance goals and help them craft a plan to achieve them.

Examples of Mike's legal services include:

• Structuring and setting an acquisition up for success
• Making sure all the moving pieces of a client's development or project come together seamlessly
• Negotiating better loan terms
• Reviewing clients' operations for tax efficiency and compliance
• Developing strategies to minimize losses and protect owner equity when exiting struggling assets
• Protecting sale proceeds and minimizing the risk of disputes post-closing when selling
• Appealing clients' property tax assessment to reduce your tax burden
• Representation in eminent domain and condemnation cases when the government or utilities want to acquire clients' property

Mike is a business and real estate owner and understands the struggles facing his clients. Mike has assembled, managed, added value to, and sold a portfolio of apartments. He understands the real-life dynamics of dealing with customers, lenders, investors, and vendors.

Mike graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ball State University in 2003, and he earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 2006.

Outside of work, Mike loves travelling and spending time with his wife and kids. He also loves doing home improvement projects and seems to always have a major renovation under construction or in the planning stages. He is also active at his church.