Katherine Dampf

Katherine’s practice focuses on representing landlords, developers, and investors in retail real estate transactions nationwide. She routinely handles the acquisition, development, leasing, and disposition of retail assets, including power centers, neighborhood shopping centers, and single-tenant net lease properties involving investment-grade national credit tenants.

With a developer-focused perspective, Katherine delivers practical business solutions and risk mitigation strategies for complex retail projects. She structures build-to-suit leases, ground leases, and multitenant leases while guiding clients through development issues for large-scale projects, including phased pad site development, CC&Rs, declarations, and reciprocal easement agreements. She also counsels landlords on leasing existing retail properties and provides guidance on day-to-day asset management matters.

Katherine regularly advises investors on acquisitions, dispositions, and 1031 exchanges, performing comprehensive due diligence on lease terms, third-party reports, and deal structures to help clients strategically dispose of relinquished properties, evaluate replacement properties and efficiently close transactions.

Katherine returned to Alexander Sides after serving as general counsel to a real estate development firm where she gained a practical understanding of developers' business objectives, priorities, and operational demands and refined her business-first approach to solving client challenges. She previously worked at a large regional law firm where she assisted with complex commercial real estate transactions, including more than $2 billion in acquisitions and dispositions of multifamily and hospitality assets for a commercial real estate investor.