About Us

Solid Legal Ground, LLC (“SLG”) is a Pennsylvania law firm, based in the Philadelphia area, specializing in commercial real estate transactions. SLG offers sophistication and experience rivaling large prestigious Philadelphia firms but at a fraction of the cost. SLG takes great pride in pragmatic, result-driven representation in a myriad of complex transactions. Our clients include many well-known developers, property owners and lenders.

Biography

Carol Ann Mueller

Saint Joseph’s University – BA English (Summa Cum Laude)
University of Pennsylvania Law School – JD (Magna Cum Laude)

Carol, the founder of SLG, was born and raised in Philadelphia. She is one of the most well-respected transactional real estate lawyers in the Philadelphia area. Carol started her career in law as a commercial real estate paralegal before returning to school to earn her undergraduate degree from St. Joseph’s University, graduating first in her class. Carol then attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School from which she graduated in 1988 at the top of her class.

Before founding SLG in 2009, Carol practiced transactional real estate law for almost two decades in some of the most highly regarded firms in Philadelphia where she was elected as a partner. Carol has a long history of leading multimillion dollar, highly complex transactions including sales and purchases, financings (construction, permanent and mezzanine), real estate workouts, transactional facets of land development and construction, property management, ground and space leases, sales/leasebacks, easements, options, condominiums and 1031 exchanges. Carol has strong interpersonal, communications and drafting skills. Because of her years as a commercial real estate paralegal, Carol has an attention to detail and an understanding of esoteric title and other issues related to real estate which most of her peers do not possess.

In addition to real estate matters, Carol has experience handling general transactional business/commercial matters including stock, asset and business purchases and sales, settlement negotiations and agreements, employment agreements, representation agreements, confidentiality agreements, shareholder agreements, non-tax driven partnership/limited liability company agreements and joint ventures.

Carol is married and has two grown children. In addition to her family, she loves her dog and musical theater in that order!

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Practice Areas

Representative Clients

SLG has a long history of representing some of the most sophisticated real estate developers, owners, lenders,
and tenants. Clients include:

  • A Pennsylvania real estate developer in the acquisition, formation, development, financing and refinancing (acquisition, construction, mezzanine) of two luxury condominium regimes and the sale of condominium units therein
  • A Pennsylvania real estate developer in the acquisition, formation, development, financing and refinancing (acquisition, construction, mezzanine) of an upscale, luxury townhouse development in the Philadelphia suburbs and the sale of townhouses therein
  • A Pennsylvania real estate developer in the acquisition, formation, development and financing of several opportunity zone projects
  • A Pennsylvania real estate developer in the acquisition, formation, development, financing and refinancing of a Philadelphia historic building and in the leasing of space within the building to various entrepreneurial and artisan tenants
  • Acting as local Pennsylvania counsel to various large corporations – buyers, sellers and lenders – in transactions having ties to Pennsylvania
  • A Pennsylvania title insurance agency in title review, title clearance and risk assessment for complex real estate transactions
  • A national health care insurance company in lease negotiations for space throughout the country
  • A large medical university and nationally recognized health care system in the development of its form of construction contract for continued development
  • Various local and national banks in real estate acquisition and construction loans to commercial borrowers
  • The buyer of golf course properties located in numerous states
  • Several large US insurance companies in a $90,000,000 joint loan to a large hotel chain in center city Philadelphia
  • A major US insurance company in several related commercial loans totaling in excess of $250,000,000 secured by real estate in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
  • A local investment company in selling, purchasing and financing local real estate
  • A large local lender in real estate loan workouts both regionally and nationally
  • A local educational institution in acquiring and selling real property and negotiating owner-architect agreements and construction agreements
  • A large local lender in the major restructuring of revolving credit loan facilities

Contact Us

Carol Ann Mueller, Esquire
SOLID LEGAL GROUND LLC
8 Hathaway Circle, Wynnewood, PA 19096
215-919-4539