Overview
Greg Null has extensive experience representing clients in the financing, acquisition, disposition, development, and leasing of commercial properties in every asset class throughout the country.
Greg has spent much of his career representing investors and sponsors in a wide range of joint venture and other equity matters. He also regularly represents institutional lenders negotiating, documenting, and closing complex commercial loans of all types, including bridge, construction, acquisition, development, permanent, and mezzanine loans. Also, since the inception of the CMBS industry, Greg has represented a host of securitized lenders in closing numerous commercial real estate loans secured by properties in most states. Greg has substantial experience representing lenders and investors nationally in complex real estate problem loan workouts, restructures, and remedy enforcement. In addition, he represents special and master servicers in a wide range of servicing matters.
For years, he has been recognized in the peer-reviewed publication Best Lawyers as one of the premier real estate lawyers in Georgia. Greg chairs the firm's Commercial Finance Industry Group and is the Atlanta office co-managing shareholder.
Experience
- Represented a major hospitality developer and investor in negotiating and documenting amendments to its capital structure in order to introduce preferred equity and in the negotiation of recognition rights with the CMBS lenders and franchisors.
- Represented a nationally recognized construction lender in a $560 million construction loan for development of an ultra-luxury condominium project in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.
- Represented a nationally recognized specialty finance company in a $65 million bridge loan secured by a boutique hotel located in Charleston, South Carolina.
- Represented a nationally recognized specialty finance company in a $56 million bridge loan secured by an office warehouse project located in Atlanta.
- Represented a nationally recognized specialty finance company in a $43 million bridge loan secured by a portfolio of retail properties located in Illinois and Nevada.
- Represented a mortgage REIT in a $30 million bridge loan required to reposition a retail power center located San Diego.
- Represented a mortgage REIT in a $24.5 million bridge loan to redevelop a Kmart shopping center into a call center leased to a major telecommunications company.
Areas of Focus
Practices
Industries
Insights
News
Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law (2018–2026)
Professional & Community Involvement
- State Bar of Georgia
- United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta
- Finance Committee
Speaking Engagements
- "Trends in the Lodging Sector," CRE Finance Council, Atlanta, GA (March 26, 2025)
- “Analyzing a Real Estate Loan Default and the Players,” Distressed Debt Conference, Atlanta, GA (January 28, 2010)
Credentials
Education
- University of Toledo College of Law (J.D., 1985)
- Lead Articles Editor, The University of Toledo Law Review
- Marshall University (1982)
Bar Admissions
Background
- Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge, Atlanta, GA
- Partner, Click & Null, P.C., Atlanta, GA
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