Blake D. Bringgold

Blake Bringgold centers his practice on real estate and business transactions, commercial lending, and commercial leasing. Blake represents commercial real estate tenants, owners and developers, financial institutions, corporate real estate users, and other clients in commercial real estate and business acquisitions and sales, commercial real estate leasing, real estate and commercial lending, real estate development, and general corporate and commercial matters.

His experience includes Florida real estate sales and acquisitions on behalf of a Fortune 100 company. He is skilled in multi-state/multi-site real estate leasing, acquisitions, and sales. Blake also advises real estate owners, developers, users, financial institutions, airlines, creditors’ committees, trustees, and other clients in bankruptcy cases and loan and lease workouts. Blake’s experience includes the representation of commercial lenders in real estate and asset-based loans and sellers and purchasers in stock, membership interest and asset acquisitions and sales.

Blake graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in political science. In 1986, he earned his law degree from The University of Minnesota Law School, concentrating in commercial law. Following law school, Blake clerked for Federal Bankruptcy Judge, the Honorable Russell J. Hill. He brought this experience to Miami, Florida, working at Greenberg Traurig, LLP and representing corporate clients in bankruptcy, creditors’ rights litigation, commercial real estate, and commercial transactions. In 1994, he moved to Tampa, Florida, and has represented clients in commercial real estate, leasing, lending, workouts, bankruptcy, and commercial transactions, notably at Holland & Knight

LLP and as a partner and head of the real estate department at Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, PA.