Conner L. Wasson

Background

Conner enjoys working with clients in both the firm’s public and private law practice areas, with a focus on helping cities, counties, school districts, colleges and universities, private businesses, and individuals with real estate, construction, and environmental matters, as well as providing advice on issues ranging from board governance, contract drafting and negotiation, and business formation and acquisition.

Conner has extensive experience assisting the firm’s clients with buying, selling, leasing, and developing real property.  This work includes managing real estate purchases or sales from start to finish, including drafting and negotiating purchase agreements, providing advice on appropriate due diligence and title work, and handling the closing of complex transactions. Conner particularly enjoys the challenges presented by the acquisition or disposal of environmentally contaminated properties, where his real estate and environmental law experience intersect.

He has assisted the firm’s public sector clients with the acquisition, development, and construction of many significant public projects across the state, including new school buildings, new administrative buildings, and public recreation areas.  Having grown up in a small town, Conner understands the significance public buildings have in Iowa’s cities and towns and has assisted the firm’s clients in the creative reuse of old school and municipal buildings. He is also well versed in complex private sector real estate transactions, having represented commercial and residential landlords in the purchase and lease of multi-unit properties.

Conner also assists both public and private entities on issues of corporate formation, corporate acquisitions, and board governance.  He has experience in the formation of private limited liability companies and corporations, including the drafting and revisions of governing documents, as well as the acquisition of small or family-held businesses.  He has also worked extensively with the firm’s public sector clients on board governance issues, including compliance with Iowa’s open meetings and open records laws.

Conner has spent his entire legal career with Ahlers & Cooney, including having clerked with the firm while in law school. Conner currently serves as the firm’s Real Estate & Environmental Law Practice Group chair, Recruiting Committee Chair, and as an adjunct professor of legal writing at his alma mater, Drake University.