Shannon Martin is an experienced transaction attorney, leader, and legal strategist with a practice that emphasizes the structuring and closing of complex real estate and financing transactions to advance and accelerate the short and long-term goals of her clients. Shannon blends nearly thirty years of practical experience representing public, corporate, and not-for-profit entities with her knowledge of public finance, traditional finance, real estate, and economic development law. 

Her diverse experience includes representation of Ohio cities, counties, school districts, port authorities, convention facility authorities, new community authorities, and other special purpose entities; not-for-profit entities including hospitals, health care providers, and universities; public utilities; and financing institutions. She serves as borrower’s/issuer’s counsel, bond counsel, underwriters' counsel, trustee’s counsel, and bank counsel on financing transactions, and regularly represents clients in real estate acquisition and development projects, particularly those that deploy or benefit from economic development tools.

A few recent examples of Shannon’s experience with real estate acquisitions, sales, leasing, management, and financing projects include the following representative transactions:

• Representation of a convention facilities authority as general counsel, bond counsel, and development counsel on special projects
• Representation as bond counsel in the issuance of tax-exempt bonds for non-profit entities, including a healthcare provider and a long-term care provider
• Representation of a port authority with respect to the development and financing of large-scale sports and entertainment facilities
• Representations of a county’s economic development teams in connection with the aggregation of land and entitlements to facilitate large-scale and mega-project manufacturing and commercial enterprises 
• Representation of a hospital system in transactions involving an acquisition of physician practices, including multiple facilities across a large region
• Representation of a growing non-profit corporation in the financing of multiple office properties through credit tenant lease financing obligations
• Representation of a port authority in a multi-party, public-private-partnership transaction resulting in the acquisition and development of an industrial campus
• Representation of a public school district in the acquisition of land and issuance of bonds and certificates of participation to finance new school facilities
• Representation of several public hospitals in transactions accomplishing the conversion to non-profit hospital agencies
• Representation of public school districts in the development of on-site, school-based health clinics
• Representation of counties, municipalities, and school districts in projects implementing the development and financing of expanded broadband internet services in the community

Shannon is a partner and market leader for the Dayton office of Bricker Graydon and has been an active volunteer leader in the greater Dayton region for over thirty years, serving in various roles with area non-profit boards such as CityWide Development Corporation, House of Bread, Women’s Recovery Center and Artemis Center, to name a few. 

For additional ways to contact Shannon Martin, you can reach her assistant Melinda Grady at 937.224.1766 or by email.

Education

Cleveland Marshall College of Law (J.D.), 1993

John Carroll University (B.A.), 1990

Distinctions

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America® – Economic Development, Law; Real Estate Law (2018–2025)

Dayton Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers in America (Real Estate Law), 2020

Listed, Who's Who in Real Estate, Dayton Business Journal, 2018

Rising Star, Ohio Super Lawyers (Real Estate; Health Care; State, Local & Municipal), 2005–2007

Ranked as AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell

Professional Activities

Board Member and current Chairperson, CityWide Development Corp, 2018-present

Board Member and current Vice Chair, House of Bread, 2018-present

President, Executive Committee, Greene County Community Foundation, 2004-2017

President, Bellbrook/Sugarcreek Education Foundation, 2005-2016

President, Executive Committee, Recovery Centers, Inc. (dba Women's Recovery Center), 2006-2013

Member, Board of Directors, Artemis Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence, 1997-2003; President, 2000-2002

Member, Dayton Chapter, NAIOP

Member, Ohio Hospital Association

Member, American Health Lawyers Association

Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL)

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