Daniel D. Khoury
Practice Focus:
Commercial
Real Estate Transactions
International Business
Municipal
Contact Information
Kitty Hawk Office
6 Juniper Trail
P.O. Box 2
Kitty Hawk, NC 27949-0002
(252) 261-5055
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Daniel is a partner with Vandeventer Black and concentrates his law practice in commercial law, real estate transactions, international business and municipal law. Daniel is a Board-Certified Specialist in Real Estate Law for Business, Commercial, and Industrial Transactions.
Daniel’s commercial and real estate transactions practice includes representation of franchise hotel and restaurant operators, developers, owners, lessors, and lessees, of commercial, industrial, utility, and residential real estate development projects; representation of purchasers and sellers in numerous merger and acquisition transactions involving public and private companies in a wide range of industries; representation of issuers in offerings of more than $23 million in private equity; representation in sale/leaseback of corporate offices, representation of golf-course developers in acquisition, construction, operation, and financing of several championship golf courses; and representation of owners in property rezoning.
His international business practice includes representation of importers of furniture and other goods from Asian manufacturers to American distributors for retail by companies such as Southern Classics and Tickle Imports. A diverse range of clients have used his contacts to explore other opportunities for Asian manufacturing sources.
In the area of municipal law, Daniel is skilled in the areas of zoning and land use. As municipal attorney, he has advised on issues including annexation; inclusionary zoning for affordable housing; new stormwater management plans and wastewater treatment facilities; major revisions of zoning ordinances; provision of free wireless internet access for all citizens and free computers for all families with school children; and XIV Amendment concerns over equal educational opportunity.
As legal counsel for a non-profit conservation group, he has addressed the requirements of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act as well as zoning issues of an historic lighthouse.
He earned a B.S. from the Ohio State University and a J.D. from the Wake Forest University School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the North Carolina Supreme Court, Federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Federal Eastern District of North Carolina, the Ohio Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court.
Daniel is a member of the Board of Governors of the North Carolina Bar Association and is a member of the North Carolina Board of Legal Specialization. He has served as section chair of the Bar Association’s Real Property Council, on the Real Property Curriculum Committee, and the Commission on Public Trust. As a councilor for the North Carolina State Bar, he was named to the Executive Committee and served as state ethics chair. Daniel was a member of the North Carolina Board of Continuing Legal Education, where he served as Accreditations Committee chair and vice chair of the board. He has been a faculty member and lecturer of the North Carolina Bar Association Real Estate and Residential Real Property seminars and is an Attorney Affiliate Member of the North Carolina Bankers Association.
Currently, Daniel serves as Manteo Town Attorney and president of the Manteo Preservation Trust. He is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell Law Directory, which is the highest quality and ethics rating possible for attorneys.