Overview
Yelena Abalmazova Chan represents owners, developers, and investors in a variety of commercial real estate transactions with an emphasis on purchase and sale of both improved and unimproved property, financing, and development. She also advises lenders in financing transactions and negotiates commercial leases for tenant and landlord clients. Yelena drafts and negotiates primary transaction documents, including purchase and sale agreements, notes, guarantees, and loan agreements. In addition, Yelena has experience representing financial institutions in Small Business Administration (SBA) lending compliance.
Yelena is part-time faculty at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business, where she teaches an undergraduate business law class, The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business. She is fluent in Russian.
Prior to entering private practice, Yelena was an assistant district attorney in Hall County, where she represented the state of Georgia in felony prosecutions, including serving as lead counsel in jury trials.