Barbara J. Mueller

Barbara Mueller has more than 40 years of experience directing real estate deals of all types. Barbara represents lenders and borrowers on construction and permanent loans and negotiates sales, purchases, tax-free exchanges, and leases of properties ranging from raw land to office buildings, apartment complexes, resorts, and warehouses. Barbara also has significant experience working with energy providers and lenders developing major wind and solar projects.

Barbara has represented health care providers in connection with development agreements, ground leases, restrictive covenants, physician leases, financing, and land use issues for the development of new medical office buildings in Aurora, Denver, Lone Tree, and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Additionally, Barbara has acquired property, resolved government land use permitting issues, negotiated easements, including conservation easements, and worked on financing and construction issues for industrial-scale renewable projects in multiple Colorado locations.

Recent Publications and Presentations

• Negotiating MOB Leases, Colorado Real Estate Journal (May 20 – June 2, 2009)
• Developing a Renewable Energy Site – presented before the Real Estate Section of the Colorado Bar Association (March 5, 2009)
• The Project: Developing a Renewable Energy Site – Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP Renewable Energy Seminar Series (June 26, 2008)
• Negotiating a Wind Farm Lease: Don’t Leave Your Client Twisting – CLE of Colorado Real Estate Symposium (July 15, 2010)
• The Icarus Solar Project: Public (and Private) Land Issue Impacts – CLE of Colorado Real Estate Symposium (July 2011)
• Stark Reality: A Primer on Medical Office and Healthcare Leases Issues – CLE of Colorado (May 3, 2012)
• CLE speaker on real estate topics including financing, property sales and purchases, current legislation, healthcare, and renewable energy issues in real estate.

Professional Memberships & Awards

• Board of Trustees, Denver Bar Association, 2012-2015
• Board of Governors, Colorado Bar Association, 2009-2010
• Chair of the Colorado Bar Association Real Estate Section Council, 2007-2008
• Member of the Board of Continuing Legal and Judicial Education, 1998-2015
• Fellow of the Colorado Bar Foundation
• Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Denver Nominee for Women of Influence Award, 2006 and 2017
• Program Chair, 25th Annual CLE of Colorado Real Estate Symposium
• Colorado Super Lawyer since 2009
• Law Week Colorado Barrister’s Best Editor’s Choice as Best Renewable Energy Lawyer, 2010
• AV® Preeminent® Peer Review Rating from Martindale-AVVO
• Best Lawyers in America®, Real Estate Law, Construction Law