Scott M. McLeod

Scott M.

McLeod

Overview

Scott is a member of Butler Snow’s finance, real estate and restructuring group and focuses his practice on real estate development and finance. 

Experience

  • Representation of publicly traded apartment REIT in more than three dozen multi-family acquisition and disposition transactions across the United States.
  • Representation of publicly traded apartment REIT in numerous financing transactions involving more than $2,000,000,000.
  • Representation of publicly traded student housing REIT in numerous financing transactions involving more than $1,000,000,000.
  • Representation of publicly traded farmland REIT in more than twenty acquisition and acquisition financing transactions across the United States. 
  • Representation of Florida-based office building owner in portfolio disposition of nineteen properties across the Southeast for over $215,000,000.
  • Representation of Florida-based office building owner in numerous financing transactions involving more than $150,000,000.
  • Representation of national agri-business company in numerous asset-based acquisitions of other agri-businesses across the United States.
  • Representation of publicly traded industrial property REIT in portfolio disposition of twenty-three properties across the Mid-Atlantic for over $240,000,000.
  • Representation of Florida-based office building and retail center owner in numerous acquisition, disposition, and financing transactions.
  • Representation of hotel and hospitality investment company in acquisition and disposition transactions.
  • Representation of Pennsylvania-based industrial property owner in numerous transactions involving PILOT structures.
  • Representation of local and regional borrowers and lenders in numerous asset based credit facilities.

Distinctions

  • Best Lawyers in America®
    • Real Estate Law, 2021-2024
  • Super Lawyers®
    • Mid-South Rising Star, Real Estate, 2017-2023

Bar Admissions

  • Tennessee, 2012

Education

  • University of Tennessee College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2012
    • Executive Editor, Tennessee Law Review
    • Editor, Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2009

Associations

  • Memphis Bar Association
  • Tennessee Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Urban Land Institute

Papers, Presentations & Publications

  • Author, Constitutional Law – Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel – Forfeiture of the Right to Counsel in Tennessee, 78 Tenn. L. Rev. 589 (2011).

Scott M.

McLeod

Overview

Scott is a member of Butler Snow’s finance, real estate and restructuring group and focuses his practice on real estate development and finance. 

Experience

  • Representation of publicly traded apartment REIT in more than three dozen multi-family acquisition and disposition transactions across the United States.
  • Representation of publicly traded apartment REIT in numerous financing transactions involving more than $2,000,000,000.
  • Representation of publicly traded student housing REIT in numerous financing transactions involving more than $1,000,000,000.
  • Representation of publicly traded farmland REIT in more than twenty acquisition and acquisition financing transactions across the United States. 
  • Representation of Florida-based office building owner in portfolio disposition of nineteen properties across the Southeast for over $215,000,000.
  • Representation of Florida-based office building owner in numerous financing transactions involving more than $150,000,000.
  • Representation of national agri-business company in numerous asset-based acquisitions of other agri-businesses across the United States.
  • Representation of publicly traded industrial property REIT in portfolio disposition of twenty-three properties across the Mid-Atlantic for over $240,000,000.
  • Representation of Florida-based office building and retail center owner in numerous acquisition, disposition, and financing transactions.
  • Representation of hotel and hospitality investment company in acquisition and disposition transactions.
  • Representation of Pennsylvania-based industrial property owner in numerous transactions involving PILOT structures.
  • Representation of local and regional borrowers and lenders in numerous asset based credit facilities.

Distinctions

  • Best Lawyers in America®
    • Real Estate Law, 2021-2024
  • Super Lawyers®
    • Mid-South Rising Star, Real Estate, 2017-2023

Bar Admissions

  • Tennessee, 2012

Education

  • University of Tennessee College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2012
    • Executive Editor, Tennessee Law Review
    • Editor, Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2009

Associations

  • Memphis Bar Association
  • Tennessee Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Urban Land Institute

Papers, Presentations & Publications

  • Author, Constitutional Law – Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel – Forfeiture of the Right to Counsel in Tennessee, 78 Tenn. L. Rev. 589 (2011).