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Why Baker Donelson?

Represent more than half of the top 100 banks in the country

150 attorneys serving the financial services industry

Handled financial services lending and leasing transactions in 42 states and Washington, D.C.

Featured Experience

Represented a publicly traded real estate investment trust in connection with structured finance sale/leaseback and mortgage transactions related to hospital and medical office buildings, with an aggregate value of approximately $1 billion.

Represented lenders on syndication of revolving and term loans secured by real estate located throughout the United States.

Industry Overview

Baker Donelson lawyers represent lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of commercial real estate financings, including land acquisition loans, construction loans, financings as part of asset based loans, permanent loans, bond financings, multi-state transactions, and other public and quasi-public financings. We are familiar with an extensive range of assets that include multi-family, office, retail, industrial, timber, farm land, agri-business, nursing home and long term care facilities. We regularly serve as local counsel for multi-state transactions and provide assistance in states across the southeastern United States. Our clients include national, state and community banks, insurance companies, and other institutional lenders. Our firm also has a niche national practice in HUD-Insured Finance, a significant Health Care Bankruptcy and Distress practice, and extensive and diverse experience with financings by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS).

Our attorneys handle the full range of real estate based financial transactions and have extensive backgrounds in financial services, tax, corporate, commercial litigation and bankruptcy. Some examples of the services we provide are:

Structuring real estate loan transactions and addressing specific loan proposal issues;
Documenting, negotiating and closing complex real estate loan transactions, including direct loans for financial institutions and syndicated loans for the agent bank;
Serving as local counsel, reviewing loan documents and providing opinions of counsel as to enforceability;
Representing the lender in court on loan enforcement and work out matters;
Foreclosing on behalf of the lender; and
Advocating for the lender's rights in bankruptcy matters.

Represented a publicly traded real estate investment trust in connection with structured finance sale/leaseback and mortgage transactions related to hospital and medical office buildings, with an aggregate value of approximately $1 billion.
Represented lenders on syndication of revolving and term loans secured by real estate located throughout the United States.
Closed $45 million line of credit to municipal airport authority for national bank.
Closed syndicated loan for national bank providing financing on 22 retail stores in four states.
Represented a real estate holding investment group with respect to the acquisition, resale and related financing of a 20-acre commercial property site in Georgia for the development of a mixed-use retail, office and residential facility. Transaction valued at approximately $12 million.
Served as counsel to lender on a $12 million land development loan for mixed commercial and residential property in Tennessee.
Served as bond counsel in connection with the issuance of $32 million revenue bonds pertaining to an educational facility located in Shelby County, Tennessee.
Served as bond counsel in connection with the issuance of $14 million multifamily housing revenue bonds pertaining to an apartment project in Nashville, Tennessee.
Represented institutional lender on foreclosure of large hotel in Shelby County, Tennessee.
Assisted lender on construction loans ranging from $5 million to $10 million for development of franchised hotels in states throughout the southeast.
Served as developer counsel to a major drug store chain on numerous acquisitions financed with bank loans throughout the southeast.

"Maryland Changes Requirements for Payment of Recordation Tax on Indemnity Mortgages" (May 2023)

Baker Donelson Adds 32 Associates Firm-Wide (December 18, 2023)
Baker Donelson Grows Fort Lauderdale Office with Addition of Nicole R. Avallone as Shareholder in Real Estate Group (April 25, 2023)
Jeffrey M. Pomeroy Named Vice Chair of Baker Donelson's Real Estate Group (April 11, 2023)
Kevin P. LaTulip Jr. Named Chair of Baker Donelson's Financial Services Transactions Group (April 3, 2023)
Baker Donelson Adds 46 New Associates Firm-Wide (October 31, 2022)
Baker Donelson Adds Commercial Financial Attorney Anthony C. Cianciotti to Financial Services Transactions Group (May 2, 2022)
Baker Donelson Adds Real Estate Attorney Jennifer Powell Decker (December 13, 2021)
Baker Donelson Adds Parker Y. Wiseman to Disaster Recovery and Government Services Team (March 3, 2020)
Baker Donelson Adds 19 New Associates Firm-Wide (January 16, 2020)
Jeffrey M. Pomeroy Joins Baker Donelson's Real Estate Practice (November 14, 2019)
Anthony B. Thompson Jr. Joins Baker Donelson (June 27, 2017)

Law360 Highlights Addition of Commercial Finance and Transactional Attorney Anthony Cianciotti (May 6, 2022)
Hamilton County Herald Highlights Addition of Robin Barber to Firm's Health Law Group (August 27, 2021)
Chip Leyens Comments in CityBusiness on Commercial Real Estate Issues During Pandemic (June 30, 2020)
Ginger Weaver Named to Mississippi Business Journal's 2019 Leaders in Law (January 24, 2020)
Birmingham Business Journal Highlights Addition of Jeffrey Pomeroy to Firm's Real Estate Practice (November 15, 2019)
Jim Levine Discusses Impact of Government Shutdown on Financing for Senior Living Facilities in National Mortgage News (January 18, 2019)

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Jason A. Strain

T: 901.577.2260

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They really care about the personal side of things, both with us and our clients. They make us look good to our clients, and you can't put a dollar sign on that.

Senior Vice President over Real Estate at a financial services company

Featured Media

Baker Donelson Adds 32 Associates Firm-Wide

Press Release / December 18, 2023

Maryland Changes Requirements for Payment of Recordation Tax on Indemnity Mortgages

Publication / May 22, 2023

Baker Donelson Grows Fort Lauderdale Office with Addition of Nicole R. Avallone as Shareholder in Real Estate Group

Press Release / April 25, 2023

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Baker Donelson is a national law firm with more than 650 attorneys and public policy advisors representing more than 30 practice areas to serve a wide range of legal needs. Clients receive knowledgeable guidance from experienced, multi-disciplined industry and client service teams, all seamlessly connected across 23 offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.