Chris focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, real estate development and finance, and general corporate.
Overview
Chris focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, real estate development and finance, and general corporate.
Practice Areas
Experience
- Representation of regional and national media, parking, agricultural, banking, and automotive companies in mergers and acquisitions.
- Representation of local companies in domestic and foreign private placement offerings.
- Representation of local, regional and national, including publicly traded developers in acquisition, development, financing, ownership, operation and disposition of self-storage, multifamily, office, agriculture, healthcare, non-profit, and telecommunication projects.
- Representation of local developers in PILOT, TIF, and public-private partnership transactions.
- Representation of publicly traded lender in commercial real estate loans.
- Representation of local, regional, and national tenants and landlords in leases for distribution, healthcare, retail, office, and alternative energy projects.
- Representation of local and regional borrowers and lenders in asset based credit facilities.
- Representation of local and regional physician organizations for transactional and operational issues.
Distinctions
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Corporate Law, 2025
- Super Lawyers®
- Mid-South Rising Star, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2019-2023
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 2014
Education
- University of Memphis, J.D., magna cum laude, 2014
- President, Student Bar Association
- Member, University of Memphis Law Review
- Washington and Lee University, B.A., Economics, Politics, and Classics, magna cum laude, 2009
Associations
- Memphis Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Business Law Section
- Corporate Counsel Section
- Real Estate Law Section
- American Bar Association
- Business Law Section
- Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Co-Author, “2021 Tennessee Real Estate Law and Practice Section,” Chambers Global Practice Guides – USA Regional Real Estate, May 2021.
- Co-Author, “2020 Tennessee Real Estate Law and Practice Section,” Chambers Global Practice Guides – USA Regional Real Estate, May 2020.
- Co-Author, “2019 Tennessee Real Estate Law and Practice Section,” Chambers Global Practice Guides – USA Regional Real Estate, May 2019.
- Co-Author, “2018 Tennessee Real Estate Law and Practice Section,” Chambers Global Practice Guides – USA Regional Real Estate, August 2018.