Richard A. Riggs

Richard Riggs concentrates his practice in real estate and other commercial transactions. He regularly represents clients in real estate purchases and sales, real estate leasing and financing transactions and secured transactions in personal property. Those transactions have included real estate developments facilitated through federal, state and local government incentives, including tax increment financing. In addition to his participation in project finance transactions, Richard regularly represents borrowers in connection with syndicated credit facilities.

Richard also represents clients involved in the field of renewable and sustainable energy.  His experience includes representing developers, lenders and investors in wind energy projects as well as landowners negotiating wind energy lease and easement agreements.

Richard has published papers and presented continuing education seminars on real estate acquisition and finance, loan foreclosures and workouts, commercial leasing, secured transactions and wind energy leasing. He was a contributor to The Commercial Property Lease, published by the American Bar Association in 1993, and to the first and fourth editions of State-By-State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases, published by Aspen Publishers in 2004 and 2012, respectively.

Richard’s achievements have earned him inclusion in Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America (commercial finance law; commercial transactions/UCC law; equipment finance law; real estate law) and Oklahoma Super Lawyers. He has also been elected to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, teaching Real Estate Transactions.