Perfil
Alan C. Sheppard, Jr. focuses his practice on commercial real estate development, leasing, and finance, with a particular emphasis on industrial facilities, large-scale distribution centers, office properties, and mixed-use developments. He also advises clients on energy, infrastructure, and data center transactions.
Drawing on his LL.M. in Taxation, Alan provides strategic counsel on the tax and structuring considerations associated with real estate investments and financing transactions. His practice includes mortgage and construction financing, lease financing, mezzanine lending, asset-based finance, and working capital loan transactions. He also advises clients on complex title disputes and mineral reservation issues.
He routinely counsels Florida-based developers in the acquisition, development, entitlement, sale, and financing of commercial real estate and large land tracts for retail shopping centers, multifamily developments, automotive sales centers, and hotels. He also advises out-of-state and foreign investors on Florida law matters and has represented both Fortune 100 and family-owned businesses in asset portfolio transactions. In addition, Alan conducts land use and entitlement due diligence for development and energy projects.
Alan is a lifetime member of the NAIOP Research Foundation Board of Governors, an organization that supports research into national and international trends and changing social dynamics that drive industrial, office, and mixed-use development. He serves on the Board of Directors of NAIOP Central Florida and is a past president of NAIOP of Florida. Through his leadership within the organization, Alan actively advocates for the commercial development community locally and before policymakers in Washington, D.C. and Tallahassee.
Concentrations
- Commercial real estate development and finance
- Land use and zoning
- Taxation
Capacidades
Experiencia
- Representation of Fortune 100 publicly traded company in development of a master planned community of office, retail, light industrial, multi-family, medical and other uses.
- Development of a transit oriented entitled area to support a commuter rail station.
- Represented banks and other lending institutions in negotiating, structuring and documenting real estate secured loans, including construction loans, loans for the acquisition and development of residential subdivisions, conventional mortgage loans, working capital lines of credit, and syndicated loan transactions.
- Represented large homebuilder in acquisition and development of numerous residential subdivisions and as lead counsel in a $750 million corporate refinance transaction.
- Representation of joint ventures in power center retail shopping centers.
- Representation of tenant in the lease of a suburban office building for a corporate headquarters and call center.
- Represented a large Florida-based development firm in its office, industrial and retail development work, including structuring joint venture agreements with equity partners; included negotiating purchase and sale contracts, due diligence, financing, and horizontal development work.
- Representation of landowners seeking rezonings, variances, conditional uses, planned developments, and comprehensive plan amendments.
- Negotiated, drafted, and closed a joint venture agreement between a large Florida landholder and a national development firm, as the developer, on a 50-plus-acre, mixed use site in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. The project was a live-work-play development, incorporating many New Urbanist elements.
- Represented buyers and developers of large single tenant warehouse and distribution centers in Florida.
- Closed numerous traditional sale/leaseback transactions with institutional lenders and life insurance companies between $65 million and $400 million for manufacturing and distribution facilities.
- Closed a $500 million revolving line of credit facility for a large grocery supermarket chain.
- Represented the lender as lead agent in a $200 million syndicated revolving line of credit facility to provide capital for the acquisition, construction, and development of office parks by the borrower.
- Represented the developer in the acquisition, construction, and mezzanine financing of $219 million resort condominium development, and representation of hotel owners in obtaining additional entitlements.
- Participated in review of project lease financing documents on various energy and project finance transactions, including a cogeneration facility.
Reconocimientos y Liderazgo
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law, 2013-2026
- Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2010, 2013, 2017-2018, and 2022
- Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers®, "Law Firm of the Year" in Real Estate Law, 2015
- Team Member, The Legal 500 United States, "Top Tier" Firm in Real Estate, 2013 and 2014
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2011-2013, 2015, 2022 and 2023
- Recipient, NAIOP "Distinguished Service" Award, 2000
- Member, Board of Directors BusinessForce
- Past Chair of Board, Children's Home Society of Florida Central Florida Division
- Member, Board of Governors, NAIOP Research Foundation, 2018
- Member, National Data Center Forum
- Member, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties of Florida (NAIOP)
- Past President, Florida Chapter
- Past President and Board Member, Central Florida Chapter
Credenciales
- Maestría en Derecho (LL.M.), Taxation, magna cum laude, The University of Alabama School of Law
- J.D., with honors, University of Florida Levin College of Law
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B.S., Economics and International Relations, with honors, Texas Christian University
- Junior Year Abroad, Florence, Italy
- Florida
- Italian