Mark B. Sandground

Mark B. (“Chipp”) Sandground, Jr. has developed extensive experience in the area of “restaurant law,” providing chef/proprietors as well as hospitality companies with advice on all aspects of their businesses including entity formation and governance issues, equity/debt financing, book publishing/name licensing, trademark, employment agreements, and related real estate matters.

Chipp has represented a number of America’s finest chefs and restaurateurs including Michel Richard, Robert Wiedmaier, Jose Martinez and the late Jean-Louis Palladin.

Currently, Chipp’s corporate/litigation practice involves representing small businesses (primarily restaurants), real estate investors and non-profit entities. Because of his varied background in the real estate business, Chipp has a thorough understanding of development issues including negotiating joint venture transactions, entitlement procedures, tax-free exchanges, and sales and leasing agreements for retail and commercial matters.

Chipp has held a variety of legal and business positions including working as an Assistant Counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as well as development positions at the Trammell Crow Company and for Euro Disney in Paris, France.

After a break from practicing law during which he worked on real estate projects in suburban Maryland and pursued his passion for screenwriting, Chipp joined a law firm that provided “in-house” counsel for a major federally-chartered non-profit corporation based in Washington, DC.