Jon Butler is a shareholder and a member of the firm’s Real Estate, Banking and Finance practice group. He represents owners and developers of multifamily, hospitality/resort, commercial office, student housing, and single family residential properties in acquisition, financing, construction, entitlement, disposition, defeasance, and exchange matters and transactions.   

Capabilities

Biography

Jon Butler is a shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer and a member of the firm’s Real Estate, Banking and Finance practice group. He represents owners and developers of multifamily, hospitality/resort, commercial office, student housing, and single family residential properties in acquisition, financing, construction, entitlement, disposition, defeasance and exchange matters and transactions. 

Mr. Butler has extensive experience in negotiating with local, county, state, and federal agencies regarding development, entitlement, land use, and zoning rights and benefits. Mr. Butler has represented owners, contractors, and developers of commercial and retail properties, office buildings, hotels, manufacturing and publishing concerns, residential, ski and golf resort properties, and condominium projects, as well as owners and developers of single, multifamily, student housing and assisted-living real estate projects and properties in the western United States.

Mr. Butler has broad experience in conventional and mezzanine financing transactions, FannieMae, Freddie Mac and HUD financing transactions, as well as defeasance and Section 1031 exchange transactions. He is also experienced in drafting, negotiating, and establishing private covenants, conditions, restrictions, public land use restrictions, zoning ordinances, and institutional controls allowing for multiple use development rights in the context of complex ongoing environmental cleanup, remediation and reclamation.

Accomplishments

Academic

Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School (J.D., 1983)

Brigham Young University (B.S., 1980)

Professional

Recognized in Best Lawyers in America for Real Estate Law

Associations

Professional

American Bar Association, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
Member

American Bar Association, Corporate, Banking and Finance Section
Member

Utah State Bar, Real Property and Construction Law Sections
Member

Utah State Bar Commission
Ex officio member
(1989 - 1990)

Utah State Bar, Finance Committee
Member
(1990 - 2015)

Utah Young Lawyers
President
(1989 - 1990)

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Credentials

Licensed

Utah
U.S. Dist. Court, Dist. of Utah

Education

Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School