PARTNER

Charles M. Cushing, Jr.

  404.614.8101 (Direct)
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Mac’s transactional practice includes the purchase, sale, development, financing, leasing, and other aspects of commercial real estate (mixed-use, multi-family, hospitality and restaurant, urban redevelopment, and other projects); secured lending, troubled loans, and workouts; and mergers and acquisitions. Clients include developers, lenders, investors, management companies, private equity, and venture funds and investment banks.

Mac also provides general legal support services for an assortment of operating business clients, ranging from general contract negotiation services to strategic tax and financial structuring advice. The industry groups represented are very diverse and include distribution, manufacturing, general retail, hospitality and restaurant services, real estate sales and management services, financial services, marketing services, software development and licensing.

Selected Matters

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Represented purchaser (private equity fund) in structuring, negotiating, and closing mid-market acquisition of construction materials provider, involving senior debt, mezzanine debt, and equity.

  • Represented seller (family office) in structuring, negotiating and closing upper-mid market sale of specialty food retail business for cash and roll over equity.

  • Represented seller in $22.5 million sale of cell phone tower business.

 

Real Estate

  • Represented purchaser of 381-unit metro Atlanta apartment complex with transaction structured as reverse 1031 exchange.

  • Represented seller and joint venture partner of upscale resort facility, including golf, hotel, restaurants and other amenities.

  • Represented multi-family developer of 308-unit mixed use project in partnership with suburban municipality.

  • Represented seller/joint venture partner in 230-unit multi-family mixed-use Atlanta in-town development project.

  • Business Formation and Advisory

    Commercial Real Estate

    Banking and Finance

  • Emory University, LL.M. (Taxation), 1985

    Washington & Lee University, J.D., 1978, cum laude, Order of the Coif

    Washington & Lee University, B.A., 1975, magna cum laude

  • Georgia, 1978

  • Atlanta Bar Association

    State Bar of Georgia