N. Courtney Hollins has joined Baker Donelson as a shareholder in the Firm's Nashville office and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group.
Ms. Hollins represents buyers, sellers, developers, investors, landlords, tenants, lenders and borrowers in commercial real estate acquisition, disposition, construction, development, leasing and finance transactions, workouts, and restructuring. She also serves as corporate counsel to a variety of entities, organizing and assisting in the structuring of corporations, limited liability companies, and limited partnerships. Her experience also includes strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, business succession planning, and structuring, as well as estate planning, trusts and probate matters.
Before entering private practice, Ms. Hollins was the vice president of legal affairs for a real estate syndication company and was in-house legal counsel for a financial institution, where she focused on legal matters related to real estate and special assets. She is recognized as a leading real estate attorney in Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America.
Ms. Hollins is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Nashville Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, the Middle Tennessee Chapter of Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute, the Greater Nashville Chapter of the Exit Planning Institute, and the Nashville Chapter of Women in Commercial Real Estate. She previously served on the National Advisory Council of the United States Small Business Administration, representing Region IV on its Executive Committee in 2000.