“Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.”
- Will Rogers
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
- Yogi Berra
Shawn R. Weingast
Weingast Companies, LLC
Key achievements
·Negotiate corporate mergers and acquisitions, valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, with public and private entities, which contributed to the ten-fold growth in employees and twenty-fold growth in revenues over a nineteen year period. Draft and review all transactional documents and lead team of accountants, engineers, sales and professionals during due diligence of a variety of M&A acquisitions.
·Negotiate real estate acquisition, financing, development, joint venture, leasing, management and disposition agreements totaling a quarter-billion dollars. Purchase, re-entitle, rezone, subdivide, develop and/or sell over 5,000 acres of land, 5,000 lots and a million square feet of commercial property.
·Manage all business and development affairs for the real estate portfolio of dozens of residential, commercial, industrial and mixed use properties in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania as well as Canada, increasing portfolio over ten times.
CAREER SUMMARY
Highly accomplished business and law practitioner with a proven track record in real estate acquisitions, entitlement, development, financing, joint ventures, and project management. Served in dual capacity as Managing Director / General Manager to a two hundred million dollar real estate investment and development company, as well as General Counsel / Business Manager to its 350-employee technology affiliate.
Solid experience in managing, advising and overseeing businesses and personnel, as well as regulatory support and governmental relations. Primary negotiator of high value domestic and international transactions, including acquisitions, licenses, dispositions, financing, and sales.
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A brush of my past
General Counsel - General Manager
Kentlands Development/Investments - Gunston Hall Realty 1996 - 2016
Served initially as Counsel / Business Manager, and currently as Managing Director / General Manager to a two hundred million dollar real estate investment and development company. During my tenure, the company has acquired over three dozen properties in the U.S. and Canada. As Managing Director / General Manager, I have the primary responsibility for all financial, developmental and transactional issues.
General Counsel - Business Manager 1996 - 2016
General Counsel of a six attorney in-house team to a 350-employee medical device manufacturing company and its U.S. and international affiliates. During my tenure, the company has gone from a single location to sales and manufacturing in four countries and over a dozen locations. As General Counsel, I am responsible for negotiating corporate acquisitions, licenses and joint ventures as well as managing a broad range of litigation, compliance and financial matters.
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9349 Berry Hill Court
Springfield, VA 22053
703.863.2724
sweingast@weingast.net
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