Jeff Upshaw

• Representing real estate firms in the acquisition, development, financing, and disposition of multifamily, office, and industrial properties, mixed-use developments, and retail shopping centers across the United States.
• Counsel to a variety of clients in the formation and negotiation of real estate joint ventures.
• Representing a variety of high net-worth tenants and landlords in the leasing of office buildings, banking centers, industrial warehouses, and retail shopping centers.
• Managing a commercial homeowners association on behalf of a Fortune 100 company.

Jeff Upshaw is a senior associate in Alston & Bird's Real Estate Finance & Investment Group. He focuses his practice on the financing, acquisition, leasing and disposition of commercial real estate. He has experience representing large institutional investors, developers of retail, office and industrial properties, and publicly traded real estate investment trusts.

Jeff is recognized in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^© “Ones to Watch” for his work in Real Estate Law.

Jeff received his J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 2013. While in law school, he served as a member of Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law. Before law school, Jeff served as the director of fundraising for an Atlanta area nonprofit that serves low-income senior citizens. He earned a B.S.Ed. in sports management from the University of Georgia in 2008.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• University of Tennessee (J.D., 2013)
• University of Georgia (B.S.Ed., 2008)

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