Hope J. Hammer

Biography

Hope J. Hammer, Chair of the Real Estate Group, advises clients on sophisticated commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, development, financing, and leasing. Based primarily in Nashville for the past five years, Hope has expanded her practice and cultivated relationships throughout Tennessee and the broader Southern market while continuing to represent long-standing clients in transactions across the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and nationwide.

Hope represents developers, investors, owners, operators, landlords, and tenants across a broad range of asset classes. Clients value her ability to identify practical solutions, anticipate business and legal issues, and move complex transactions efficiently from strategy through closing. Her perspective is informed by decades of private-practice experience as well as prior service as in-house counsel for a title insurance agency. Hope serves on the firm’s Executive Committee and is Office Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s Nashville office.

Client Experience

• Real estate developers and investors in the acquisition, development, financing, and leasing of office, retail, hospitality, restaurant, and mixed-use properties
• Owners and developers of self-storage facilities throughout the United States
• Investors, sponsors, developers, contributors, and operators in the formation and operation of real estate joint ventures
• Developers and investors in solar energy projects throughout the United States
• Corporate clients in office, warehouse, industrial, and retail lease negotiations nationwide
• Private real estate investment firms in the acquisition and leasing of large-scale industrial and flex facilities throughout the Southeast, including adaptable, infrastructure-rich properties serving a diverse range of corporate and industrial users

Representative Matters

• Represented development partners in the development, financing, ground leasing, and retail leasing of a 146,679-square-foot mixed-use town center in Yardley, Pennsylvania, anchored by national supermarket, pharmacy, financial institution, and retail tenants, and in the project’s ultimate sale.
• Represented a real estate developer in the acquisition of a golf course and the subsequent joint-venture sale of the approved development to a national homebuilder.
• Represents the developer of multifamily and senior living communities throughout Pennsylvania and Delaware.
• Handled all real estate aspects of a private-equity-backed national courier and logistics company’s strategic acquisition of another national courier and logistics company.
• Represents corporate clients in office and industrial/warehouse leasing throughout the United States, including a purchaser’s acquisition and subsequent leasing of a portfolio of office buildings in Marlton and Moorestown, New Jersey.
• Advised a national auto body and glass company on the real estate aspects of its acquisition of substantially all assets of auto body and repair businesses throughout the United States.
• Represented a real estate fund in acquisitions across the United States of properties operated as veterinary hospitals.
• Represented a high-end automobile dealership in the sale of its real estate holdings and business assets.
• Represents an impact-first farmland investment firm in real estate transactions supporting regenerative farmers, long-term land access, ecological stewardship, and resilient local food economies throughout the United States.