Brooks Smith is a Member on the firm's Real Estate team and currently serves as the co-chair of the firm's Hiring Committee. He advises clients in their endeavors related to commercial real estate matters, commercial financing and general business transactions.  The majority of Brooks' time is concentrated on real estate-related transactions, with specific emphasis on real estate acquisition and development, medical-related real estate acquisitions, development and dispositions, complex commercial financing transactions and lease transactions.

Brooks also has extensive experience in the hotel industry, including the construction, financing, acquisition disposition, franchising and management of lodging facilities.

Brooks is active in legal, civic and community organizations. He is the current chair of the Tennessee Bar Association's Real Estate Section and a graduate of the Young Leaders' Council.  Brooks dedicates his time and knowledge to a number of organizations including, Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee (board president), CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), the Land Trust for Tennessee and the Downtown Exchange Club of Nashville.

Brooks frequently lectures on topics related to real estate and commercial lending.  He was listed in the Nashville Business Journal's  2008 "Best of the Bar" publication for his commercial real estate practice. Brooks also was listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers 2006   for real estate and was named a "Rising Star" in the "Heavy Hitters in Commercial Real Estate" special publication of the Nashville Business Journal .

Brooks is the author of "Constitutional Law - Fifth Amendment Eminent Domain Clause -- Compensation for Partial Regulatory Takings", 62 Tennessee Law Review  403 (1996). Additionally, Brooks is the author, with Brannon P. Denning, of "Uneasy Riders: The Case for a Truth-in-Legislation Amendment," 1999 Utah Law Review   957. 

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