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Jason A. Strain

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Jason Strain is a commercial lending and real estate attorney, helping his clients lend and borrow money, and guiding them through the acquisition, development, leasing, financing, and disposition of commercial real estate.

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Represents a Memphis-based bank on a wide variety of bilateral and syndicated commercial financing transactions, including asset-based loans, construction loans and other loans secured by commercial real estate, loans to finance companies, and loans to bank holding companies.

Represented a regional telecommunications and cable television provider in a $90 million multi-bank secured credit facility.

Counsel to the corporate real estate department of a Memphis-based bank in all aspects of its real estate needs, including acquisitions, dispositions, branch and office leases, and multiple sale/leaseback transactions.

Professional Biography


Mr. Strain also counsels clients regarding site selection and the negotiation of state and local tax incentives in connection with various real estate transactions. In addition, Mr. Strain advises his clients on general commercial contract matters such as purchase and sale agreements for raw materials and completed products, non-disclosure agreements and other vendor agreements. He works out of the Memphis office.

During law school, Mr. Strain served as an executive editor of the journal Law and Policy in International Business and also worked as a research assistant to a professor of English Legal History at Georgetown University.

  • Commercial Lending

  • Represents a Memphis-based bank on a wide variety of bilateral and syndicated commercial financing transactions, including asset-based loans, construction loans and other loans secured by commercial real estate, loans to finance companies, and loans to bank holding companies.

  • Represented lead bank on aggregate $89 million construction loans to multiple borrowers to finance Parke West, a mixed-use condominium project consisting of apartments, retail, a dual-branded hotel, and associated parking garage in West End, Nashville.

  • Represented agent bank on aggregate $90 million secured loan facilities to related companies providing small business working capital solutions, including merchant cash advances and microticket leases.

  • Represented agent bank on $50 million secured loan facility to affiliated group of small business loan providers.

  • Represented a regional telecommunications and cable television provider in a $90 million multi-bank secured credit facility.

  • Represented a regional telecommunications provider in a $33.5 million secured credit facility.
  • Represented a Nashville-based bank on an approximately $50 million term and revolving credit facility secured by multiple intermediate care facilities.

  • Represented a publicly traded REIT in connection with construction mortgages and refinances of existing commercial loans to self-storage facility operators around the country.

  • Represented a Memphis-based food company in connection with various financing and real estate matters, including the negotiation of a $150 million syndicated senior credit facility secured by accounts receivable, inventory, equipment, and real estate, to be used to finance acquisitions and operations.

  • Represented a Memphis-based bank on a $35 million revolving credit loan to a facility automation and software solutions company.

  • Represented a Memphis-based bank on a $35 million term loan to a transportation company, which was secured by multiple trucking facilities.

  • Represented a Memphis-based agent bank on $45 million and $100 million revolving credit loans to affiliated private lending funds.

  • Represented a Memphis-based agent bank on $300 million revolving credit loans to a transportation factoring company.

  • Represented a New York-based lender on a $17 million construction loan to finance a new apartment complex and adjacent parking in downtown Atlanta.

  • Real Estate

  • Represented a publicly traded company in connection with its approximately 300,000 square foot corporate headquarters lease.

  • Counsel to the corporate real estate department of a Memphis-based bank in all aspects of its real estate needs, including acquisitions, dispositions, branch and office leases, and multiple sale/leaseback transactions.

  • Represents a private investment firm in its acquisition of agricultural properties in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

  • Represented the owner of a 450,000-square-foot office tower complex in its leasing activities.
  • Represented a group of affiliated air ambulance companies in ground leasing sites for new bases around the country.

  • Represented the purchaser of a $41 million, 361-unit residential apartment complex in downtown Memphis, including transfer of tax incentives.

  • Represented a privately-owned real estate development company in various ground lease and build-to-suit lease transactions with its national retail tenant clients.
  • Represented multiple national loan servicing companies in real estate loan workout transactions and dispositions of REO properties, including shopping centers, office buildings and multifamily apartment complexes.
  • Represented a food products manufacturer in its site selection and acquisition process for a new $100 million manufacturing plant; assisted the client in obtaining significant tax and other economic incentives from state and local government.
  • Represented a manufacturing firm in the $22 million sale and leaseback of its manufacturing, warehouse, and office facilities.

  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Finance Law (2017 – 2025); Banking and Finance Law (2018 – 2025); Real Estate Law (2018 – 2025); Commercial Transactions/UCC Law (2019 – 2025); Securitization and Structured Finance Law (2022 – 2025)
  • Named the Best Lawyers® 2025 Banking and Finance Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Memphis
  • Named the Best Lawyers® 2023 and 2019 Commercial Transactions/UCC Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Memphis
  • Named the Best Lawyers® 2023 Securitization and Structured Finance Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Memphis
  • Listed in Mid-South Rising Stars (2013, 2018)
  • Member – American, Tennessee and Memphis Bar Associations
  • "Title Insurance from Start to Finish," National Business Institute Seminar, Memphis, Tennessee (August 2017)
  • "Commercial Real Estate Financing," National Business Institute Seminar, Nashville, Tennessee (December 2015)

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2003, cum laude
  • Mississippi State University, B.A., 2000, summa cum laude

Admissions

  • Tennessee, 2003

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