Ashley Harris

Peake Law Group is a team of highly experienced legal professionals focused on the commercial real estate industry.  PLG has extensive experience working with landowners and developers from the very beginning stages of a project until after the last brick is laid. Whether you are looking to purchase or sell raw land, shopping centers, office buildings, medical campuses or a portfolio of properties, PLG’s years of experience can be invaluable.  In the competitive and time-sensitive field of retail and office leasing and sales, PLG employs decades of combined experience to advocate for both landlords and tenants, franchisees and corporate giants, medical groups and developers, and small businesses and REITs.  This vast exposure to clients of all types enables us to have the unique perspective of all sides of a deal.  

PLG routinely facilitates the equity and debt financing goals of our borrowing and lending clients.  We regularly and efficiently close commercial loans for our developer and small business clients looking to acquire assets, construct infrastructure or buildings, or recapitalize their enterprise and we have worked extensively with lenders across the full spectrum of their lending practices.  We help prepare private offering materials, polish project pro-formas, gut-check budgets, and ultimately incorporate all of those steps into professionally assembled subscription agreements and corporate governing documents.  For our lending clients, who are keen to please their borrowers, PLG applies skill and efficiency to cost-effectively draft and negotiate commercial loan documentation, review due diligence, and coordinate closings on acquisition, construction, permanent and conduit loans. 

Medical service providers are subject to a complex web of regulations and we have worked with clients on every side of medical office deals to navigate those issues and stay within the prescribed framework.  The firm also has significant expertise in the ever-expanding sector of senior living transactions. We represent both operators and investors in virtually all aspects of the ownership and operation of assisted living and independent living facilities, from large multi-state portfolios to individual boutique facilities located throughout the country. We work closely with our clients to structure joint ventures and asset acquisitions, negotiate letters of intent and purchase agreements, negotiate operating leases and management agreements, close financing, and prepare leases of facilities and campuses. 

Mixed use and master planned developments require a skilled developer and the best always partner with trusted counsel to see the project successfully launched.  PLG has been privileged to help clients work through the acquisition of land and entitlements, the creation of lots and tracts and the framework of easements and covenants that make them work symbiotically together, and ultimately the sale, ground leasing or other disposition of commercial tracts to grocery anchors or other big-box retailers.  

Our goal is to defy stereotypes about lawyers, to delightfully surprise our clients, and to take a refreshing approach to serving as their legal counsel. We aspire to serve as “consigliere” – a trusted adviser and friend – to our clients throughout their life’s work. They may want help navigating a single transaction or need someone to weigh the balance of their career history to provide the best advice. We do both.

Ashley is an experienced commercial real estate attorney representing financial institutions, private lenders, developers, national retailers, franchise operators, buyers and sellers in commercial real estate transactions and landlords and tenants in commercial leases. Her practice includes experience in:

– drafting and negotiating commercial loan documentation, reviewing due diligence, and handling closings for lenders,
– property acquisition and development,
– drafting and negotiating commercial leases for landlords and tenants (including healthcare systems and national wireless telecommunications companies),
– acquisition, construction, permanent and conduit loans,
– 1031 deferred exchange transactions,

– new and existing franchise development/analysis,
– construction/project financing,

– historic tax credit and redevelopment projects,
– restrictive covenants and easements,
– residential/commercial condominium formation (and other planned use developments),
– corporate transactions (formation, asset purchase/sale, merger,
subscription, dissolution, restructure, equity and capital infusion),

– senior living facilities, to include acquisition and the structuring and financing of national portfolios.

Ashley strives to exceed her client’s expectations and to provide the highest level of service in every transaction.