Gelpi, Kenneth J.

David Gee assists clients in achieving financial and tax benefits through structuring or restructuring ownership interests and debt in connection with asset based transactions. A substantial portion of his practice involves acquisition, development, financing, exchange and other disposition of real estate assets, representing both owners and lenders. He often assists owners in obtaining land use and development rights and financing assistance from Utah governmental authorities including industrial revenue bond and redevelopment agency financing.

Mr. Gee provides legal services related to asset based and project loan transactions, including oil and gas financing, financing of power plants and other industrial facilities and structured lending. During economic downturns, Mr. Gee provides analysis and negotiating assistance to creditors and debtors in restructuring real estate and other asset based non-performing loans, leases and other financing vehicles.

Mr. Gee presently serves on the Salt Lake County Tier 1 Advisory Board responsible for the Zoo, Arts and Parks Tax allocations among arts group in Salt Lake County, and on the Board of Directors of Red Butte Garden and Pioneer Theatre Company.

Mr. Gee has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Utah College of Law, as Chairman of the Pioneer Theatre Company, and as President of the Alumni Board of Trustees of the University of Utah College of Law.

Mr. Gee was named one of the top real estate lawyers in Utah in the 2003-2010 editions of Chambers' America's Leading Business Lawyers. In the 2009 edition a client noted "he has great vision - he can look into the depths of a case without losing sight of the big picture." Mr. Gee was also listed in the 2004-2010 editions of Utah Business Magazine's Legal Elite in real estate, The Best Lawyers in America 2006-2010 editions and the 2007-2010 editions of Mountain States Super Lawyers.