Culver Schmid, shareholder in the Firm's Knoxville office, is a member of the Real Estate/Finance Group. Mr. Schmid's practice focuses on commercial transactions including real estate development and finance, business acquisitions, secured lending, commercial and residential condominium law, municipal corporations and administrative law. He represents banks, commercial real estate developers, manufacturing concerns and acts as legal counsel to the Industrial Development Board of the city of Knoxville. Mr. Schmid also serves as commissioner and chairman of Knoxville's Community Development Corporation by appointment of the Mayor of the city of Knoxville.
He is also a member of the board of directors of Family Promise of Knoxville and previously served on several other community boards of directors including The United Way, Child and Family Services of Knox County, Inc., and The Webb School of Knoxville. Mr. Schmid also served on the finance committee for the election of Tennessee's Governor Bill Haslam. He currently is Senior Warden of The Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Knoxville.
- Represented the developer in the creation and financing of a theater in downtown Knoxville which included the use of empowerment zone bonds and new market tax credit financing.
- Represented the management in a stock purchase buyout of a foreign-owned manufacturer of bathing industry products.
- Represented the developer in the acquisition and financing of a convention center hotel in downtown Knoxville.
- Served as landlord's counsel to the municipal corporation in payment in lieu of tax lease projects.
- Served as legal counsel and state of Tennessee lobbyist to the Tennessee Oil and Gas Association in connection with the development of regulations for the oil and gas industry in Tennessee.
- Member โ Knoxville, Tennessee and American (Section of Environment, Energy and Resources; Oil and Gas Committee) Bar Associations.
- Member โ Knoxville Bar Foundation
- Member โ Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
- Tennessee, 1984
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1984
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1984
- University of Tennessee School of Law, J.D., 1984
- University of Virginia, B.A., with distinction, 1981
- The Webb School of Knoxville, 1977