Todd A. Schrader
Todd Schrader has been practicing law for over 20 years and joined SSEG in 2013. One of his positions prior to joining SSEG was serving as in-house counsel with a well-known suburban Cleveland, Ohio real estate developer. Todd also served as sole in-house counsel with one of the nation’s largest privately-held industrial sales and rental organizations headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. Schrader’s practice emphasis includes commercial, industrial, multi-family, and residential real estate matters; zoning, land use, and municipal law; corporate and LLC-related formation, governance, management, and buy-sell matters; mergers and acquisitions; complex debtor-creditor and distressed asset/workout matters. He also counsels clients on a wide spectrum of business and transactional matters, including negotiating, drafting and reviewing business-related transactional documents; and counseling closely-held business entities on asset protection and comprehensive business succession strategies.
Some of Todd’s successes while at SSEG include negotiating commercial and industrial real estate transactions (including 1031 Exchange transactions and participating in all levels of due diligence, land development, and land use approval processes), addressing title matters and related title analysis and review; facilitating the acquisitions and sale of professional organizations; negotiation of commercial leases for commercial landlords and commercial tenants; facilitating business succession plans with multi-generational, privately-held entities; assisting with ownership and governance disputes, challenges, and ownership changes for multiple organizations across a broad and diverse spectrum of industries; successful negotiation of workout arrangements for organizations under financial or organizational distress.
Todd is an active member of St. Colette’s Parish in Brunswick, Ohio, and he is a musician when not practicing law. In his spare time, Todd enjoys musical endeavors, cycling and fitness activities, and reading.