Profil
Anna Lee Alford focuses her practice on commercial leasing. She has represented landlords and tenants in connection with the leasing of office, retail, and industrial properties across a range of industries and uses, such as medical and hospital, medtail, dental, cold storage, first- and second-generation restaurant, franchise, data center, cell tower, social clubs, and small-bay industrial. Her clients range from institutional owners and investors to single-property landlords and tenants, and she handles leases ranging from under 1,000 square feet to more than 100,000 square feet.
Anna Lee routinely drafts and negotiates commercial leases, lease extensions, renewals, and amendments, as well as subleases, master leases, ground leases, and license agreements, and handles subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreements, estoppel certificates, lease abstracts, lease portfolio management, and leasing due diligence for purchase, sale, and financing transactions. She also advises landlords on lease management and enforcement strategy, including default and termination notices, lockouts, lien enforcement, and negotiations with defaulting tenants.
Anna Lee also has a strong background in other areas of commercial real estate, including representing commercial lenders in real estate finance and real-estate-backed lending transactions, drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, development and construction agreements, and coordinating title and survey review for multiproperty, multistate loan transactions. In addition, she has experience with asset-based debt finance, including senior secured, subordinated, mezzanine, and second-lien term and revolving credit facilities, syndicated loans, and SBA loans.
Concentrations
- Office, retail, and industrial lease drafting and negotiation for landlords and tenants
- Subleases, master leases, ground leases, and license agreements
- Leasing due diligence, estoppel certificates, and SNDAs for purchase, sale, and financing transactions
- Landlord lease management, tenant defaults, and lease enforcement
Expertise
Erfahrung
- Represented a $1.5 billion real estate investment firm in leasing, development, and property management functions, including drafting and negotiating leases, lease amendments, construction and development contracts, vendor, and other agreements, as well as managing day-to-day legal issues related to operations and property management.°
- Represented the landlord in leasing industrial cold-storage and freezer space to national tenants.°
- Represented a franchisee of a national dessert brand in its leasing transactions.°
- Represented various Top 10 through Top 100 commercial lenders in real estate finance and real-estate-backed lending transactions.°
- Negotiated and drafted purchase and sale agreements, development and construction agreements, and other commercial real estate transaction documents; senior secured and second-lien debt instruments, including term and revolving credit facilities in connection with real estate financings, and SBA loans.°
- Coordinated title and survey review for transactions, including on a $25 million, 33-property, multistate loan transaction, including managing six attorneys and paralegals.°
- Represented agent in an $85 million syndicated loan agreement with 12 leased commercial properties as collateral.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Alford prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Anerkennung durch den Markt
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” Real Estate Law, 2022-2023
- Listed, CREi Top Influencer, 2024-2026
- President, Dallas-Fort Worth Auburn Club, 2016-Present
Ausbildung
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J.D., University of Texas School of Law
- Executive Board: Symposium Director, Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law
- M.S., Finance, Auburn University
- B.S.B.A., cum laude, Honors Scholar, Auburn University
- Texas
- Englisch
- Französisch, Conversational