Alana Malick Ritenour is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Real Estate & Finance Practice Groups.  Alana’s practice focuses on complex commercial real estate transactions including purchases and sales, easement agreements, restrictive covenants, representing landlords and tenants in negotiating and drafting retail and office leases, landlord-tenant dispute resolution and litigation, settlement agreements, construction and permanent financing and development of multi-tenant residential, retail and office projects, historic tax credits, enterprise zone grants, real estate tax assessment appeals, as well as business entity formation and general business matters.

At William & Mary School of Law, Alana served as associate editor of the William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law, as President of Phi Alpha Delta, Law Fraternity International, and as President of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society.  She also served as a law clerk for the Iraqi Special Tribunal, providing legal research to the United States Department of Justice.  She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, with a degree in Philosophy and Foreign Affairs.  Before joining McCandlish Holton, Alana practiced law on Smith Mountain Lake where her practice focused on serving the booming real estate development market of SML.

Alana serves on the Virginia State Bar (VSB) Standing Committee on Professionalism and has chaired the VSB Young Lawyers Conference 2007 and 2008 Bench Bar Celebration Dinner Committee. In 2009, she is working with a joint VSB-Virginia Bar Association committee to offer free "Wills for Heroes" to Henrico County first responders. She is also a member of the American Bar Association (Real Property Section), the Virginia Bar Association, the Richmond Bar Association (Real Estate Section), International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and chair of the Young Leader’s Membership Committee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Alana was recognized as a Virginia Rising Star in 2009.

Alana is a volunteer with the American Diabetes Association.