Phone: 404-954-9813
Fax: 404-681-1046
E-Mail: ahaywood@swfllp.com
overview
Amy Haywood has more than five years of experience as a commercial real estate attorney representing clients in various transactions, including the acquisition, development, leasing and disposition of commercial real property. Amy routinely negotiates and prepares purchase and sale agreements, leases, easements, restrictive covenants and conveyance documents for industrial, retail and office properties. She also has experience in closing 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. Amy has managed multiple-property due diligence reviews which included analyzing and organizing title commitments, tax reports, surveys and environmental reports and resolving various title and survey issues. She also has experience assisting lenders and borrowers with the financing of real estate development projects.
practice areas
Commercial Real Estate
experience
- Represents owners and developers located in acquisitions, dispositions and leasing of improved real property and raw land by preparing purchase and sale agreements, leases, easements, declarations, restrictive covenants and conveyance documents for commercial, industrial, retail and office properties.
- Represents lenders and borrowers in the consummation and modification of loans, including loans for development of commercial and residential property.
- Managed multi-property due diligence reviews, including serving as counsel in a health care company merger transaction valued at several billion dollars with a portfolio of over 250 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities.
- Represented various owners and developers, including a major power company, a major quick-service restaurant company and a not-for-profit foundation providing inner-city affordable housing, in their acquisitions and sales of fee simple and easement interests in real estate.
- Represented a telecommunications company in its acquisition, leasing and subleasing of ground and tower space including system equipment upgrades and equipment standardization issues after company mergers.
- Represented borrower in a loan refinancing of leasehold interests in multiple commercial, office and retail buildings in downtown Atlanta.
education
Presbyterian College, B.S., 1991, cum laude
Georgia State University College of Law, J.D., 2002, cum laude
admitted
State Bar of Georgia
affiliations & memberships
Atlanta Bar Association
American Bar Association, Real Property Section
Georgia Association for Women Lawyers