Kelsey M. Sullivan, Esq.

Kelsey focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, business and real estate dispositions, commercial real estate development, and complex business transactions. With experience negotiating and closing more than $450 million in lower- and middle-market transactions, Kelsey represents business owners, developers, investors, and privately held companies in sophisticated acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and strategic investments. Her practice encompasses asset and equity acquisitions, business succession planning, corporate structuring, and entity formation and governance. She serves as a strategic advisor throughout the lifecycle of a deal, from initial structuring and due diligence through negotiation, documentation, and closing, with an emphasis on achieving practical, commercially sound outcomes that advance her clients' business objectives.

Kelsey also maintains an extensive commercial real estate practice, advising developers, property owners, and investors on the acquisition, development, financing, leasing, and disposition of commercial and residential properties. Her experience includes structuring complex real estate investments and development arrangements, negotiating purchase and sale agreements, navigating title, survey, environmental, and other due diligence matters, and advising on development-related agreements, easements, and other property rights. She also counsels clients on tax-deferred exchanges under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, including the structuring and execution of transactions involving investment and income-producing real estate. Drawing on her experience in both corporate and real estate law, Kelsey provides integrated counsel on matters where business, investment, and real estate considerations intersect.

Kelsey graduated magna cum laude from the University of Mount Union and earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Akron School of Law in 2019. She is admitted to practice in all Ohio courts and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and is a member of the Stark County and Ohio State Bar Associations. Kelsey is also a member of the 40th Class of Leadership Stark County's Signature Program, reflecting her commitment to leadership and community engagement throughout the region.