Alan S. Ritchie
Ohio
Thompson Hine LLP
3900 Key Center
127 Public Square
Cleveland, OH 44114
Tel: 216.566.5616
Email:
Alan.Ritchie@ThompsonHine.com
Web:
www.thompsonhine.com
Alan leads Thompson Hine’s Construction practice group and is a co-chair of the firm’s Site Selection practice. He is also a partner in the Real Estate practice. Alan is also on the board and is a member of the firm’s wholly owned subsidiary Project Management Consultants, which provides owner’s representative, consulting and public and private debt structuring services to a wide range of stakeholders in the construction industry.
Alan is a founding member of the firm’s public-private partnership (P3) practice group. He has served as developer/sponsor counsel on Ohio’s first transportation and infrastructure P3 projects.
Alan’s construction practice includes project delivery counseling, the preparation of all “front-end” documents and the creation of risk management and insurance programs on behalf of owners, developers, architects, engineers, construction managers, contractors and subcontractors, and participation in dispute resolution of claims. As project counsel, he has worked on many community impact projects, including many major league and professional sports facilities, convention centers and mixed-use projects.
Alan’s real estate practice includes the representation of public owners, lenders, borrowers, developers and other corporations in connection with public-private development transactions, zoning and project entitlement, public and private finance, wind, solar and other renewable energy transactions, new market and historical tax credit transactions, build-to-suit and sale-leaseback transactions, acquisitions and sales, development, leasing and other general corporate real estate matters.
Alan frequently lectures on public-private partnership transaction structures and construction and design-related issues, including project delivery selection and critical provisions in design and engineering contracts.
Distinctions
- Selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Construction, Ohio, 2021 to 2024
- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2014, 2016 to 2025 for Construction Law; named the Best Lawyers® 2023 Construction Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Cleveland
- Recommended in The Legal 500 in Construction, 2019 to 2024; Sport, 2022 to 2024; Real Estate, 2017
Our Construction practice is the largest in Ohio and one of the most experienced in North America. We represent owners, design professionals, construction managers, contractors and sureties in connection with all facets of the building industry.
Nationally recognized for skill in resolving claims, our transactional construction group has served as project counsel for billions of dollars of construction at sites across the United States. Among these are many significant stadium and arena projects for the National Basketball Association, National Football League, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, and university and minor league teams. Equally extensive is our experience with hospitals, pipelines, processing plants, schools and universities, office towers, hotels, and other commercial, industrial and institutional developments.
In tandem with Project Management Consultants (PMC), a wholly owned ancillary consulting practice, our construction consulting group includes professionals with extensive experience in design and construction management. We provide unique consulting services such as partnering facilitation and mediation, project and risk management, financial strategizing and owner’s representative services for projects throughout the United States.
With the experience and resources to handle the most challenging legal issues, Thompson Hine strives to deliver consistently exceptional guidance, value and service, and to fulfill our Client Service Pledge from the inception of each matter to its close, and beyond. In fact, our goal is to be the best law firm our clients have ever dealt with.
For more than a century, Thompson Hine has been committed to excellence on behalf of our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work. Clients rank us among the top firms in the United States for client service year after year, and we are proud of the accolades we have earned in recognition of our capabilities and leadership.
Perhaps the greatest measure of our success is the high number of ongoing client relationships we are proud to have, including major public and private corporations, financial institutions, governments, nonprofit organizations, venture capitalists and individual entrepreneurs. We invite you to learn more about the firm and what makes us different, and we welcome the opportunity to discuss how we may be able to support your needs.
“Alan Ritchie is well regarded for his handling of construction projects across a number of sectors, including manufacturing and sports. He frequently assists a range of clients, including both developers and contractors, with the preparation and negotiation of construction contracts”