Jeff Thomson is an associate in the firm's Real Estate practice. He focuses on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, leases, and development projects. He has experience working with a variety of real estate assets, including agricultural, renewables, natural resources, multifamily, office, retail, hospitality and industrial.
Jeff advises clients throughout all stages of their real estate transactions including drafting and negotiating primary transaction documents (loan documents, purchase and sale agreements, management agreements and leases), conducting and coordinating due diligence review, and managing those transactions through and after closing. He also has extensive experience evaluating and remedying title and survey matters for a wide range of property types.
Jeff regularly advises clients with respect to matters affecting the ownership and operation of farmland and other agribusiness assets. A significant number of the matters Jeff works on involve foreign investment in US real estate assets, particularly agricultural properties (timber, cropland, rangeland). He helps advise clients on federal and state foreign and corporate ownership regulations regarding the ownership and operation of agricultural property, including analysis of pending state and federal legislation. He also assists clients with their Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) filings and state-analogous disclosure filings, including work on behalf of clients with the United States Department of Agriculture regarding compliance matters.
