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Richard A. Riggs
Two Leadership Square
211 North Robinson, Suite 1000
Oklahoma City, OK 73102-7103

(405) 552-2265 direct
(405) 235-0439 fax
richard.riggs@
mcafeetaft.com

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Practice Areas
Admissions
  • Oklahoma, 1974
Education
  • J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan, 1974
  • B.A, with distinction, University of Oklahoma, 1971; Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Organizations and Memberships
  • Oklahoma County Bar Association
  • Oklahoma Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Oklahoma Bar Foundation (Fellow; Vice President, Board of Trustees)
  • American College of Real Estate Lawyers
  • Oklahoma City Commercial Real Estate Council
Civic Involvement and Leadership
  • Oklahoma Bar Foundation (Trustee)
  • Edmond Public Schools Foundation (Former Trustee and President)
  • Indian Nations Presbytery (Trustee and Former President)
Richard A. Riggs
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Biography

Richard A. Riggs concentrates his practice in real estate and other commercial transactions.  He regularly represents clients in negotiating and closing real estate purchases and sales, real estate leasing and financing transactions and secured transactions in personal property.  Those transactions have included sale/leasebacks, ground leases and exchanges, as well as real estate developments facilitated through federal, state and local government incentives, including tax increment financing. 

Richard has published papers and presented continuing education seminars on real estate acquisition and finance, loan foreclosures and workouts, commercial leasing and secured transactions.  He was a contributor to The Commercial Property Lease, published by the ABA in 1993 and to State-By-State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases, published by Aspen Publishers in 2004. 

Richard is listed in The Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America and Oklahoma Super Lawyers for his work in the field of real estate.  He has also been elected to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.  In 2003, he taught Real Estate Transactions as an adjunct professor at the University Of Oklahoma College Of Law.

Representative Experience

  • Representation of parties to real estate transactions throughout the United States.        
          Purchases and sales
          Exchanges
          Industrial, office and retail leasing
          Ground leasing
          Mortgage financing
  • Representation of lenders and borrowers in connection with secured and unsecured credit facilities.
  • Representation of parties to equipment and other personal property financing transactions.
  • Representation of nonprofit entities in real estate transactions.
  • Representation of developers in transactions utilizing tax increment financing and other federal, state and local government incentives.

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