Dimitri Adloff

Overview

Dimitri Adloff is a business attorney with extensive experience representing clients across numerous industries in the structuring and execution of complex transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, entity restructurings, private offerings, preferred equity arrangements, debt financings, and various types of commercial real estate transactions across asset types.  Dimitri also acts as a trusted advisor on general corporate, real estate and business matters, bringing his prior experience as a commercial litigator to bear to help clients quantify and minimize risk.

Dimitri is the Chair of the firm’s Business Transactions and Capital Markets Practice Team and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee.  He is also on the board of trustees of the Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado and serves as its treasurer.

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Experience

Representative real estate and joint venture experience includes:

• Represented real estate investment firm in connection with numerous joint venture negotiations and corporate structuring matters, including (i) a $200 million luxury condominium development project in downtown Denver, (ii) a $500 million multi-phase, mixed-use development in the Atlanta area; and (iii) the restructuring and acquisition of a $300 million portfolio of assets.
• Represented real estate investment, development and management firm focused on the manufactured housing industry in connection with multiple joint ventures, fund formations, restructuring transactions, and acquisitions, including a $130 million portfolio acquisition and related joint venture agreement, and a multi-tier, multi-property development joint venture with over $90 million in equity contributions.
• Represented real estate sponsor and developer focused on the multifamily industry in connection with negotiating and structuring numerous joint ventures totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in equity, including a complex, programmatic joint venture that acquired numerous assets over a five-year period.
• Represented private sponsor group in connection with the complex, recapitalization, corporate restructuring and refinancing of a 25-property portfolio of manufactured housing communities.
• Represented developer in private-public partnership for the development of a portion of Denver’s historic Auraria campus as a career hub, mission-oriented retail space, and student-housing.
• Represented developer in the negotiation of the joint venture for the acquisition and development of the Oceanwide Center project in downtown San Francisco.

Representative M&A experience includes:

• Represented private sponsor group in the acquisition of a boatbuilding and repair company with multiple marinas, including negotiation of senior and subordinated loans, and multiple layers of equity investment.
• Represented a railroad and logistics company in connection with numerous acquisitions, restructuring transactions, and contracting matters, including the acquisition of (i) multiple railroads and rail-served industrial development parks, (ii) three transloading facilities and a sand mine from a Canadian company subject to a multi-jurisdictional bankruptcy proceeding, and (iii) a manufacturing and oil field logistics business.
• Represented private sponsor group in the acquisition of multiple transportation, warehousing, logistics, and construction and remediation businesses.
• Represented manufacturing, processing and wholesale distribution and agricultural company in connection with numerous strategic mergers and acquisitions.
• Represented family office in connection with multiple M&A and joint venture transactions in the service, manufacturing, and technology industries.

Speaking & Publications

• Author, Joining Forces through Co-GP Joint Venture Arrangements, Colorado Real Estate Journal (May 17-June 6, 2023)
• Author, Considerations for Programmatic Real Estate Joint Ventures, Colorado Real Estate Journal (February 3-16, 2021)

Awards & Involvement

• Legal 500 – United States – Denver Elite: Corporate and M&A (2026)
• Best Lawyers in America: Real Estate Law (2025-2027)
• Colorado Super Lawyers List-Rising Star (2013-2023)
• Legal Aid Foundation Board of Trustees (2022-present)
• Think 360 Arts: Board of Directors (2013-2019)
• Legal Aid Foundation Associates Advisory Board (2013-2014)
• Colorado Lawyers for the Arts: Board of Directors (2012-2013)
• Law Week Colorado “Compleat Lawyer” (2012)
• Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) Leadership Arts 2012

Jurisdiction

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

Education

• J.D., University of Iowa (2008); with Highest Distinction; Order of the Coif; Associate Note Editor, Journal of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems
• B.A., Comparative Literature, Colorado College (2005); Cum Laude

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