Creative Legal Solutions for Real Estate, Business, and Estate Planning
For nearly 2 decades, Sam Dowse has delivered innovative, precise, and seamless legal solutions. Experience clarity and confidence for your most important decisions.
Practice Areas
Real Estate Law
Dowse Law offers a comprehensive range of real estate legal services, including purchase and sale agreements, residential and commercial leases, commercial and residential real estate acquisitions and dispositions, multifamily acquisitions and dispositions, eminent domain matters, easements, title review, license agreements, and sale leaseback transactions.
Business Law
Dowse Law has extensive experience assisting clients with all facets of their business. Whether you are a new business and need support with entity selection and formation, or a growing or established business and need assistance with business transactions, contract drafting, review, and negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, or business employment matters. We work with clients to develop practical, timely, and cost-effective solutions to legal challenges facing businesses. We counsel established local and regional business and emerging growth companies, and we provide support to in-house counsel.
Estate Planning
Dowse Law is ready to assist you with your estate planning needs by creating a plan that will protect you during your lifetime and support your family and loved ones after you're gone. For a flat fee, we offer essential estate planning and healthcare agreements, including wills and trusts, health care power of attorney, durable financial power of attorney, and living wills. We take the time to understand your unique needs, explain your options in clear terms, and apply our legal expertise to craft an estate plan that works for you.
Sam has worked for and served as legal counsel to
A Track Record of Success
Sam has been practicing law in the Dayton area for nearly twenty years, serving as outside counsel to local businesses, entrepreneurs, and Fortune 500 companies. With a successful track record as a business lawyer and General Counsel, Sam is ready to assist you with your business needs.
Completed over $4 billion in multifamily and commercial real estate transactions as
General Counsel for The Connor Group, A Real Estate Investment Firm.
Outside real estate counsel to the Montgomery County, Ohio Transportation
Improvement District’s Interstate I-75 Austin Road Interchange Project.
Lead Counsel for Speedway, LLC. Helped spearhead the company’s legal due diligence production and transition planning efforts during 7-Eleven’s $21 billion acquisition of Speedway.
Thomson Reuter’s “Super Lawyers” Rising Star 2014
Dayton Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Award 2016
Senior Corporate Counsel – Real Estate for Driven Brands, Inc., NASDAQ (“DRVN”)
Dowse Law Stands Out
"Sam was extremely responsive in guiding us through several complicated transactions. Having a resource like Sam on our side gives us a great deal of confidence in our transactions."
"There aren’t enough great words to say about Sam! His attention to detail, the speed of response, and his professionalism is outstanding. I will be using Sam until he retires."
"Dowse Law has been an invaluable legal resource to Oxbow EHS Solutions. Sam exhibits great depth and breadth of legal knowledge, and has a vast support network. Beyond that, he is reliable, honest, and a pleasure to work with. Sam’s business and legal advice has been a tremendous help to our growing company."
"I’ve known Sam for over 15 years, and throughout that time, Sam has proven himself to be an invaluable resource to my entrepreneurial endeavors. Sam’s legal acumen and strategic thinking set him apart from other attorneys that I’ve worked with in the past."
About Sam
Sam Dowse is not just a lawyer—he’s a problem solver delivering powerful, strategic legal solutions. A magna cum laude graduate of St. Bonaventure University and a graduate of The University of Dayton School of Law where he was a member of the School's law review, Sam has been trusted counsel to small startup companies, local businesses, as well as Fortune 500 companies.
Passionate about real estate, business law, and estate planning, Sam brings a fresh, innovative approach to each client’s unique challenges. Beyond the boardroom, he’s an avid tennis player, cyclist, and dedicated family man, always striving for balance and excellence in every area of life.
Dowse Law’s office is conveniently located in Centerville’s Uptown District.
Address
93 W. Franklin Street, Centerville, OH 45459
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