Jack Gans is an associate in the Kansas City office of Lathrop GPM. He works with in Real Estate group, focusing on commercial real estate transactions, title and survey review, and closings. Jack assists clients with acquiring, financing and transferring commercial properties, managing title, survey and closing tasks to ensure smooth transactions.
Before joining Lathrop GPM, Jack gained direct title and underwriting experience as associate underwriting counsel at First American Title Insurance Company in Kansas City. There, he handled underwriting for commercial real estate transactions and reviewed title commitments, deeds, leases, covenants, easement agreements, property surveys and purchase contracts. He also negotiated coverage, resolved title objections and issued endorsements. This experience equips Jack with a practical understanding of title and survey issues critical to closing deals.
Jack has closed more than 400 real estate transactions, preparing settlement statements, deeds, estoppels and releases while overseeing fund disbursements. Previously, as an associate at a law firm in Salina, Kansas, he formed more than 50 limited liability companies, prepared annual minutes for over 200 entities and drafted operating agreements, leases, bylaws, trusts and wills. Earlier in his career, Jack worked as a commercial real estate appraiser trainee in Texas, preparing valuation reports for raw land and retail, office, industrial and special-use properties. His combined experience in title, transactions and valuation informs his approach to every deal.