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Areas of Practice
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Representative Experience
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Professional/Civic Activities
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Speaking Engagements
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Bar Admissions
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Education
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Achievements
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Additional Information
Areas of Practice
Mr. Jones is a partner in the Charlotte office and focuses his practice on real estate joint ventures, public/private partnerships, real estate financing, real estate debt restructuring and work outs, real estate development, and real estate taxation. He represents real estate investors, developers and lenders in the structuring and negotiation of real estate equity and debt financing and debt restructuring. Mr. Jones also represents owners and developers in the acquisition, development, disposition, and financing of multi-family housing. Additionally, he represents real estate developers in negotiating for development incentives from local governments, and in structuring of tax-increment financing and similar transactions.
Mr. Jones also practices in the area of limited liability companies and partnerships. He currently serves as a member of the firm's Diversity Committee.
Representative Experience
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Representing large national bank in negotiating the structure and operations of bank-group owned entities organized to own real property portfolios acquired by foreclosures under syndicated loan facilities.
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Represented regional development firm in an approximately $13,000,000 tax increment financing transaction in Western North Carolina.
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Represented a national banking institution in the restructuring of a low-income tax credit investment involving a portfolio of multi-family projects in Florida.
- Represented a national banking association in a joint venture of an office/residential/parking complex.
- Represented the owner of an 11-property portfolio in a merger transaction with a publicly-traded real estate investment trust.
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Represented property owner in a joint venture with a large regional commercial developer involving the development of a 100-acre phased retail project.
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Represented publicly-traded real estate investment trust in the negotiation of a $400 million secured revolving credit facility.
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Represented major regional retail developer in the structuring of joint venture transaction with a national pension fund advisor for the completion and operation of an approximately $92 million dollar retail center.
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Represented large North Carolina non-profit corporation in the structure of a building redevelopment using federal historic rehabilitation tax credits and federal new market tax credits.
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Represented regional development company in the creation of $125 million real estate investment fund.
Professional/Civic Activities
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American Bar Association Affordable Housing Forum
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North Carolina Bar Association, Real Property Section
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Urban Land Institute
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Belmont Community Development Corporation, Board of Directors, 2003-2005; Treasurer, 2005; Chair, 2003-2004
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Charlotte Housing Authority, Chair, 2008-2009; Board of Commissioners, 2005-present
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Charlotte Observer Community Columnist, 2004 and 2006
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Friendship Trays, Board of Directors, 1991-1999; Chair, 1998
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Housing Charlotte 2007 Implementation Committee, Co-Chair of Inclusionary Housing Policy Subcommittee
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Mecklenburg Council on Homelessness, Inc. (Board of Directors, 2002-present; Chair, 2002-2006)
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Mecklenburg Ministries, Board of Directors, 1998-2002; Chair, 2000
Speaking Engagements
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"The Tenant Will Never Sign That! " Issues in Using Commercial Leases as Collateral, NCBA 2004 Real Property Section Meeting, May 2004
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"North Carolina Project Development Financing," Land Use Section of the NCBA Meeting, March 2006
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"Tax Increment Financing," NCBA Real Property Section Meeting, May 2006
Bar Admissions
Education
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J.D.,
Wake Forest University School of Law
(1980)
(magna cum laude, Wake Forest Law Review, Articles Editor)
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B.S.,
Austin Peay State University
(1977)
(summa cum laude)
Achievements
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Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law, 2007-2011
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North Carolina Pro Bono Impact Award recipient, Business Leader Media, 2008
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North Carolina Super Lawyers, Real Estate Law, 2007-2010
Additional Information
Publications
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Quoted in the Congressional Oversight Panel's February Oversight Report: Commercial Real Estate Losses and the Risk to Financial Stability published on February 10, 2010 (quote from November 2009 Distressed Real Estate Alert).
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"VIEWPOINT: TIF Bonds," Charlotte Business Journal, Triangle Business Journal, The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area, March 2008
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"Amendment One: Zero deals - A year after incentive plan was put in place, North Carolina has yet to OK any TIF-backed developments," Charlotte Business Journal, November 4, 2005
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"Financing for Mixed Use/Planned Development Projects," The Real Estate Finance Journal, Spring 2003
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