Roger Spencer was born and raised in New York City and attended Brooklyn Technical High School, where he graduated in the 99th percentile of a class of 1,500 students.
He earned his B.S. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) and served in the USAF as a jet instructor pilot, achieving the rank of Captain. Upon leaving the military service, then he was admitted to The Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (Chicago, Illinois), wrote a law review article on Fair Housing Law that was published, then graduated with a J.D. degree.
Mr. Spencer was a real estate partner at Winston & Strawn (headquartered in Chicago, Phoenix office), and later spent several decades as a real estate partner at Quarles & Brady (headquartered in Chicago and Milwaukee, Phoenix office).
In 2005, Mr. Spencer founded his own firm in Phoenix, Arizona, as a boutique practice focused on commercial transactional real estate.
In Arizona, Mr. Spencer raised a family of five, all of whom graduated college. He is a proud grandfather, with another arriving soon!
Mr. Spencer remains actively involved in his community, having served on the Fiesta Bowl Committee, Phoenix 100 Rotary Club, Men’s Arts Council (supporting the Phoenix Art Museum), Lambda Alpha International (LAI) Honorary Real Estate Industry Society, Valley Partnership (Board of Directors), and the Maricopa County Bar Association.
Practice highlights include:
• Lead attorney representing a major, multi-state, multi-family investment firm which over a recent 4 year period acquired 60 properties having a combined value approaching 3 billion dollars. His services included negotiating and documenting acquisitions (1031 exchanges and TIC structures), due diligence investigations (environmental, zoning, survey, title, property condition, appraisal), ownership entity structuring, acquisition financing, closing, post-closing construction contracting, asset management, leasing, and dispositions.
• Lead attorney representing a major transportation infrastructure development firm in the negotiation and closing of a leasehold interest in a combined office/laboratory facility with an annual seven figure rental. Closing occurred on Christmas Day 2024.
• Lead attorney representing the developer of a major retail/multi-family development project (over 600 doors), in the West Valley in Arizona, with both on and offsite construction, retail construction and leasing and multi-family construction now underway.
• Lead attorney representing the developers of major enclosed and outdoor retail malls, and commercial office multi-building high rise and mid-rise projects.
Lead attorney for east coast investment firm in the acquisition and post-closing servicing of loan/REO portfolios in the 9 to 11 figure range.
• Extensive experience in all product categories: high rise and mid-rise commercial office development and leasing, medical office development and leasing, retail construction and leasing including shopping malls, multi-family, hotel, golf, resort, data processing centers, industrial buildings, unimproved land acquisition for both industrial and retail development.
• Represent commercial real estate lender in launching a new interstate commercial real estate lending fund for construction projects offering fixed rate interest only, as well as sequential mini-perm self-amortizing financing (triggered at reaching stabilization/optimum value). Also provides lead attorney services in structuring and sale of real estate lender participations in fund financings.
• In addition to representing institutional and private lenders, developers, and contractors, have among other parties, represented institutional real estate brokerage firms, real estate title insurers and escrow companies, architects, and environmental engineers, to name but a few of the many participant types in a typical commercial real estate project.
For more information about Law Offices of Roger K. Spencer PLLC, including both peer reviews and client reviews, please visit “www.rogerspencerlaw.com”. Contact Mr. Spencer at 480-712-9483.
