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Suzanne Cherot

Shareholder
(907) 263-7219
Anchorage
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Practice Areas

• Banking and Commercial Finance
• Commercial Transactions
• Real Estate and Land Use Law
• Mergers and Acquisitions

Ms. Cherot focuses her practice on commercial and real estate transactions. She has negotiated and advised clients in sophisticated real estate transactions, including purchases, sales, leases and financings of shopping centers, mobile home parks, residential subdivisions and commercial buildings. In connection with these real estate transactions she assists clients in the formation and organization of the business entities that own and develop the real estate. Ms. Cherot has also represented businesses in the purchases and sales of stock and assets. For the last seven years, Ms. Cherot has served as managing shareholder of the firm.

Education

• University of Kansas School of Law (J.D., 1972)
• University of Kansas (B.A., 1970)

Admitted to Practice

• U.S. Supreme Court
• Alaska

Awards and Honors

• Ranked in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers

Selected Clients

• Cook Inlet Housing Authority
• Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science
• Alaska Communications Systems
• Alaska Commercial Company
• Hickel Investment Company

Representative Matters

• Represented the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority in its acquisition from Suneel Alaska Corporation of a 49% interest in a coal load-out facility in Seward, Alaska.
• General counsel to Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science, an Alaska nonprofit corporation, responsible for the financing, construction and operation of the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska.
• Represented Hickel Investment Company, Cook Inlet Housing Authority and several Alaska real estate developers of commercial buildings and residential subdivisions.
• Represented purchasers of four mobile home parks and developers of two medical buildings in Anchorage.
• Negotiated and drafted property purchase agreements, joint venture agreements and financing documents for the acquisition of large parcels of property from a bankrupt estate.

Professional and Community Activities

• Alaska Bar Association
• Anchorage Economic Development Corporation board of directors
• Anchorage Chamber of Commerce board of directors
• Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, vice chair and board member