Bill E. Kyriagis

Overview

Bill Kyriagis represents real estate, business and government clients in litigation and land use matters in state and federal courts. While Bill has experience with a broad spectrum of commercial litigation, he has built an extensive reputation as a leading land use, real estate, and development dispute litigator. Regardless of the underlying case, Bill’s clients trust him to find efficient, practical solutions for their matters.

Bill’s practice is centered on complex real estate and development disputes, representing property owners, developers, lenders, and governmental entities. His experience includes litigating purchase and sale disputes; boundary, easement and encroachment issues; adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims; landlord/tenant disputes; and cases relating to Colorado’s Common Interest Ownership Act (CCIOA). He also represents landowners and governments in condemnation/eminent domain matters, and he understands complex valuation issues, particularly as they relate to unique properties.

Throughout his career, Bill has developed significant experience on land use issues, both in and out of court. He counsels clients through contested approvals before municipal and county bodies and represents clients in litigation involving local land use approvals, including Rule 106(a)(4) claims. Bill’s land use experience also includes historic preservation issues, constitutional litigation, and fee and exaction disputes. Bill is a regular speaker on land use issues at legal and industry conferences. Bill’s real estate litigation and Rule 106 challenge expertise extends throughout mountain and resort communities across Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West, where he regularly represents clients in complex land use disputes.

Bill is also one of the leading Colorado litigators on special district and public finance issues. He represents special districts, property owners, developers and lenders on a variety of disputes, including matters involving complex intergovernmental agreements, enforcement of financial commitments, reimbursement issues, and special district inclusions and exclusions of property (boundary adjustments).

Specialty practice: Development & Rule 106

Bill is the chair of the Litigation Practice Team and the firm’s Technology Committee.

Bill also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Colorado Law School, where he teaches Land Use Planning.

Speaking & Publications

• Speaker, 106 Challenges: Planning for and Dealing with Them, CLE International Land Use Law: How-To (December 2025)
• Author, Law Targets Legal Hurdles in Colorado Land Use Approvals, Colorado Real Estate Journal (July 17, 2024)
• Speaker, Entitlements, Zoning and the Challenge of NIMBYism, Residential & Commercial Land Development Conference (April 19, 2024)
• Speaker, 106 Challenges: Planning for and Dealing with Them, CLE International, Land Use Law: How-To (December 1, 2023)
• Presenter, Workouts and Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure, Foreclosure Law in Colorado: Post Pandemic, CBA CLE Seminar (December 2022)
• Speaker, Exactions, Linkages and Impact Fees, CLE International Land Use Law: How-To (Advanced) (December 1, 2022)
• Chapter Author, Workouts and Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure, Foreclosure Law in Colorado (Second Edition), Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc. (2019)
• Speaker, Workouts and Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure, CBA CLE Foreclosure Law in Colorado Conference (August 20, 2019)
• Speaker, 106 Challenges: Planning for and Dealing with Them, CLE International, Land Use Law: How-To (November 9, 2018)
• Speaker, Real Estate and Land Use Issues, CLE International Recreational Marijuana Conference (May 17, 2018)
• Panelist, Should Section 106 Challenges Require a Bond?, CLE International Land Use Conference: The Great Debates (December 1, 2017)
• Speaker, Workouts and Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure, CBA CLE Foreclosure Law in Colorado Conference, September 22, 2017
• Chapter Author, Workouts and Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure, Foreclosure Law in Colorado (First Edition), Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc. (2017)
• Speaker, Real Estate and Land Use Issues, CLE International Recreational Marijuana Conference (May 19, 2017)
• Speaker, 106 Challenges, Planning for and Dealing with Them, CLE International, Land Use Law: How-To (November 4, 2016)
• Speaker, Real Estate and Land Use Issues, CLE International Recreational Marijuana Conference (April 12, 2016)
• Speaker, Planning by Litigation: Is it the New Norm and Does it Have to Be?, 21st Annual Land Use Law Conference (December 4, 2015)
• Speaker, Medicolegal Aspects of Marijuana: Real Estate and Land Use Issues, 21st Annual Land Use Law Conference (December 4, 2015)
• Interview, Critical Issues Leasing to Marijuana Business, CRE Radio and TV (November 11, 2015)
• Speaker, Annual Legislative Update – Real Estate, Colorado Bar Association (June 10, 2015)
• Speaker, Annual Case Law Update – Real Estate, Colorado Bar Association (January 14, 2015)
• Speaker, Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure and Workouts, Foreclosure Law – All the Latest and Greatest CBA Seminar (May 8, 2015)
• Speaker, Marijuana in Eminent Domain, Eminent Domain CLE (April 24, 2015)
• Speaker, Real Estate and Land Use Issues, Recreational Marijuana CLE (April 20, 2015)
• Author, Chapter 11-Land Use, Real Estate, Landlord/Tenant and HOA Issues, Medicolegal Aspects of Marijuana Colorado Edition, edited by Jay M. Tiftickjian (2015)
• Speaker, 106 Challenges: Planning for and Dealing with Them, CLE International Land Use Law: How-To (December 12, 2014)
• Speaker, Real Estate Issues Relating to the Marijuana Industry, Recreational Marijuana CLE (June 20, 2014)
• Speaker, Real Estate Issues Relating to the Marijuana Industry, Medical Marijuana in Illinois, Chicago, IL  (June 13, 2014)
• Speaker, The Dynamics of the Land Use Case: Elements, Strategy & Presentation Seminar, Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (March 12, 2014)
• Speaker, Rule 106: Your Project is Approved, But Can You Move Forward?, CREJ Land & Development Conference & Expo (September 17, 2013)
• Author, Amendment 64: What Property Owners, Managers Should Know, Colorado Real Estate Journal (September 4, 2013)
• Speaker, Real Estate Issues Related to Marijuana, CLE Amendment 64 Conference (August 12, 2013)
• Author, New Pot Laws Await Fed Response, Law Week Colorado (June 3, 2013)
• Author, Federal Implications of Amendment 64 Looming, Law Week Colorado (December 3, 2012)
• Speaker, Colorado Medical Marijuana Law, Rocky Mountain Paralegal Association Lunch and Learn (October 25, 2012)
• Speaker, Industrial Legal Update – Medical Marijuana, CREJ Office & Industrial Summit, (September 6, 2012)
• Contributing Author, Chapter 5-Land Use Regulation of Medical Marijuana Facilities, Colorado Medical Marijuana Law by Ann Toney, JD (2012)
• Speaker, Medical Marijuana Issues, CLE Land Use Conference (December 1-2, 2011)
• Speaker, Colorado Medical Marijuana Laws, Kaplan College (June 14, 2011)
• Speaker, Medical Marijuana Land Use Issues, ABA Section of State and Local Government – National Conference, Portland (Oregon, May 12, 2011)
• Quoted, Medical Marijuana is No Get-Rich-Quick Scheme, ABA Journal Law News Now (December 1, 2010)
• Speaker, Overview of Medical Marijuana Law, Rocky Mountain Paralegal Association (September 30, 2010)
• Speaker, Legal Regulatory and Land Use-Medical Marijuana and Other Hot Topics, CREJ Industrial Owners & Managers Conference & Expo (September 15, 2010)

Awards & Involvement

• Best Lawyers in America: Litigation – Real Estate (2022-2027)
• Colorado Super Lawyers, Business Litigation (2024)
• “AV” Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell (2014 to present)
• Super Lawyers Rising Star (2012-2014, 2018, 2020-2021)
• Impact Denver (2011)
• John D. Fleming and Charles J. Kelly Memorial Scholarship for 2006-2007
• Chief Justice Luis D. Rovira Scholarship for 2006-2007
• Chief Justice Francis J. Knauss and Emma Gurr Knauss Scholarship for 2005-2006
• Bernard J. Seeman Scholarship for 2004-2005

Jurisdiction

• State of Colorado
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Colorado Bar Association
• Denver Bar Association

Education

• J.D., University of Colorado Law School (2007); Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, University of Colorado Law Review
• B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004); With distinction; Phi Beta Kappa

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