Geoffrey practices within Butler Snow’s Finance, Real Estate and Restructuring Group and Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group, and handles a variety of real estate development and finance, public finance, and M&A transactions.
Overview
Geoffrey practices within Butler Snow’s Finance, Real Estate and Restructuring Group and Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group, and handles a variety of real estate development and finance, public finance, and M&A transactions.
Practice Areas
Distinctions
- BL Rankings, Best Lawyers in America®
- Ones to Watch, 2024-2025
- Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers®
- Mid-South Rising Stars, Real Estate, 2023-2024
- Top 40 Under 40 Urban Elite Professionals, 2023
- Shelby County Mayor’s Young Professionals Council, 2021-2023
- Memphis Flyer, 20 < 30, 2021
- NEXUS Professional Development Program, 2020
- New Memphis Institute - Embark Professional Development Program, 2019
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 2018
Education
- Vanderbilt Law School, J.D., Certificate in Law and Business, 2018
- Dean's Scholar
- Phi Delta Phi Legal Honor Society
- Moot Court Competition, Top 16
- Law and Business Certificate Program
- Vanderbilt Bar Association (2L, 3L Representative)
- Black Law Student Association (1L Representative, Social Chair, Black History Month Chair)
- Entertainment and Sports Law Society
- Law Futbol Club
- Vanderbilt University, B.A., English and Communication Studies, 2015
- Minors in Corporate Strategy and History
- Chancellor's Scholar
- Resident Adviser (RA Program of the Year 2014-2015)
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.-Kappa Theta Chapter (President)
- Vanderbilt Programming Board-CityVU Committee (Chair)
- Vanderbilt NAACP (Publicity Chair, Political Activism Committee)
- Alternative Winter Break
- MOSAIC Multicultural Recruitment Program
- Project I AM Minority Mentoring Program
- Vanderbilt Dance Marathon
- Top 40 Outstanding Senior
Associations
- Leo Bearman, Sr., American Inns of Court, 2023-Present
- Memphis Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division
- Board of Directors, 2021-Present
- Young Lawyers Division
- Tennessee Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division
- National Association of Bond Lawyers
- National Bar Association
- Ben F. Jones Chapter
Civic Involvement
- Indie Memphis
- Board of Directors, 2024-Present
- Facing History and Ourselves
- Ambassador, 2019-2020
- Bridges USA
- Board of Directors, 2021-Present
- Executive Committee, 2023-Present
- Board of Directors, 2021-Present