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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Responsible for supporting new store real estate development and real estate operational issues for existing stores in selected regions of company portfolio.

The Woodlands, Texas, United States

Real Estate Attorney for company that owns, manages and develops commercial, residential and mixed-use real estate throughout the U.S. Responsible for new leases, amendments and terminations for retail and office leasing for locations in The Woodlands, Bridgeland, Las Vegas, Columbia, New York, and Hawaii.

Houston, Texas

General Counsel for US division of Caydon Property Group. Responsible for directing legal issues in support of multi-family and condominium development projects in the US. Work primarily included drafting and negotiating real estate purchase contracts, construction contracts, design agreements and construction loan documents. Also responsible for corporate entity documentation, protecting company proprietary information, assisting with employment issues, and managing litigation matters.

Houston, Texas Area

In-house counsel for a publicly traded real estate investment trust with 58 retail shopping centers and office properties primarily located in Arizona and Texas. Managed legal department budget and supervised one attorney and one paralegal. Responsible for directing legal issues relating to real estate, litigation, intellectual property, commercial contracts and tenant bankruptcies/collections. Provided legal support on financing, corporate compliance, employment, development projects, construction contracts and real property acquisitions and sales. Supervised outside counsel on selected matters.

Cincinnati, Oh

Negotiated and documented transactions involving company real estate (primarily department stores, furniture stores, warehouses and office properties), including leases, subleases, contracts for property acquisitions and dispositions, LOIs, default response/enforcement issues, operating agreements and reciprocal easement agreements. Supervised two Attorney direct reports. Managed outside counsel on selected matters. Responsible for coordinating real estate lease renewal process within legal department. Also responsible for managing expenses/operations of company’s aircraft hangar. Managed hangar budget. Promoted from Senior Counsel.

Atlanta, Ga

Senior Real Estate Counsel for publicly traded restaurant company. Responsible for coordinating all legal aspects of new restaurant purchase and lease transactions. Personally negotiated some new location deals and managed the negotiation of remaining deals by another in-house attorney and a group of outside attorneys. Also managed administration of all real estate related legal matters for existing restaurants, including lease renewals, lease amendments, estoppel/SNDA requests and compliance/default issues. Assisted Construction Department with utility easements, construction contract issues and lien disputes. Supervised one in-house Attorney and two Paralegals and managed outside attorneys at multiple law firms.

Memphis, Tn

Associate attorney in a commercial real estate practice representing sellers, buyers, tenants, landlords and lenders, primarily involving purchase/sale, loan and lease transactions.

Kingsport, Tn

Associate attorney in Real Estate/Business transaction practice. Real Estate practice: closed land purchase and loan transactions; negotiated leases; reviewed title work and surveys. Business practice: formed entities; represented lenders in bankruptcy; and negotiated loan documents, contracts and merger agreements. Firm is now Wilson, Worley, Moore, Gamble and Stout, P.C.

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Ba - 1988