Porter Wright is pleased to announce that partner Karim Ali has been named to the Habitat for Humanity - MidOhio Board of Directors.

Karim’s background in real estate law, including his extensive experience drafting and negotiating real estate purchase agreements, commercial leases, supply agreements, consulting agreements, service agreements and various business contracts, will help the organization meet new and expanded goals in the coming years.

E.J. Thomas, CEO of Habitat for Humanity – MidOhio, shared in his February 2022 Monthly Musing newsletter, “The timing could not be better, given the thrust of our new three-year Strategic Plan, for included in our objectives is opening our fourth ReStore in Newark, and a foray into multi-family development. Both of these goals will entail the acquisition of real estate and the requisite negotiations to make it all happen, to which Karim can lend his many years of experience. … We are delighted that he is now part of the Habitat MidOhio team!”

Karim is a corporate transactional attorney with a focus in real estate law. He counsels clients in connection with a range of business transactions including the purchase and sale of real estate, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, emerging and privately held companies, manufacturing facilities and electronic financial service providers. Karim also advises wireless telecommunications carriers on matters of new cell site deployment to build out legacy and state-of-the-art wireless technologies nationwide.