Parker Poe

Corporate Leasing

• Represented landlords and tenants in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating leases, lease extensions, terminations, amendments, assignments, and subordination agreements.
• Drafted and negotiated laboratory, retail, warehouse, and office leases, lease amendments, sale/leaseback agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, subleases, and purchase and sale contracts.
• Reviewed and assessed lease portfolios to help companies gauge the value and risks of properties before they purchased them.
• Managed national leasing and renewals for a leading life sciences company with over 3,500 locations in the United States.
• Advised national retailers on new store leases for acquisitions up and down the East Coast, including build-to-suit and reverse-build-to-suit leases.
• Represented a university in ground lease negotiations with utility provider in combined heat and power project.
• Represented a major international furniture and wood products manufacturer on the ground lease negotiation for its first U.S. manufacturing facility.
• Drafted and negotiated leases for financial institutions, including regional banks.
• In prior role as in-house counsel, negotiated leases nationwide for office space, retail locations, ATMs, and critical data facilities for one of the largest U.S. banks.

Real Estate Lending

• Represented lenders in all aspects of commercial construction projects for apartment complexes, office towers, shopping centers, hotels, and mixed-use projects.
• Represented financial institutions in secured financing transactions, including commercial real estate transaction financings, asset-based financings, construction loans, acquisition and development loans, and revolving lines of credit loans.
• Advised regional banks on a broad variety of their construction lending needs, including reviewing opinion letters and SNDAs, conducting due diligence, and drafting and closing loans.  
• Represented a national bank as administrative agent in connection with a $167.8 million four-bank syndicated loan for construction of a 26-story, 745,000-rentable-square-foot office building.
• Represented a national bank in connection with a multifamily rental property on land leased from the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) for a project in Decatur, Georgia.