Practice Expertise

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Healthcare Real Estate
  • Commercial Leasing
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Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Commercial Leasing
  • Healthcare Real Estate
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions
  • Real Estate Finance and Development
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Profile

Dawn Sharff has been with Bradley since 2005 and has served in many firm leadership positions, including four years on the firm's managing board and four years as the managing partner of Bradley's Birmingham office.

Dawn represents developers, public companies, privately held entities and individuals in all types of commercial real estate transactions, including the buying, selling, leasing and developing of commercial real estate nationwide. She also has broad experience representing both lenders and borrowers in commercial lending transactions, with a particular emphasis on transactions involving commercial real estate.

Her commercial real estate practice includes representation of developers, as well as large companies that own and/or lease real estate assets across the United States as a part of their business operations. She has closed transactions involving multifamily, student housing, senior living, self-storage, retail, office, healthcare, hospitality, condominium and timber properties. Dawn also represents a number of financial institutions on syndicated and non-syndicated construction loans, interim and permanent loans, corporate revolvers and term loan facilities, subscription facilities and other commercial financing transactions. Dawn is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the Banking and Finance and Real Estate categories and in The Best Lawyers in America® for Real Estate Law.

Bar Admissions

  • Alabama, 1994

Education

  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1994
  • Birmingham-Southern College, B.S., 1991, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Commercial Leasing
  • Healthcare Real Estate
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions
  • Real Estate Finance and Development

Blogs

BuildSmart

Significant issues can arise during the three phases of the design and construction process. Effective planning, performance and completion are critical to the success of any construction project. So is informed counsel that addresses a variety of business issues, including mergers and acquisitions, environmental and regulatory compliance, labor and employment, and bankruptcy and tax matters. The Bradley Construction team has extensive industry knowledge and experience that allows us to...

Patent 213

Patent law, like most things in life, is subject to change. Changes to patent laws not only impact investment in your existing IP, but directly shape strategies to protect your freedom to operate. The Patent 213 blog provides up-to-date, insightful analysis of the evolution in the written description and enablement requirements of 35 USC 112 and the subject matter eligibility requirements of 35 USC 101. The Patent 213 blog analyzes key decisions from the district courts and the Federal Circuit,...

The Law of Order

Bradley’s The Law of Order blog serves as a general parliamentary procedure resource, providing information about creation and revision of governing documents (constitutions, bylaws, or rules), application of Robert’s Rules of Order and other procedural authorities in a variety of contexts (such as nonprofits, political parties, homeowners associations, unions, churches, trade associations), and leadership of any type of organizational meeting. In an effort to make all things parliamentary more...

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