Martindale-Hubbell® AV Peer Review Rated

Tom Trent has experience in all areas of real estate transactions, including industrial development and economic incentives, leasing, corporate, joint venture, partnership and limited liability company law, and tax-exempt finance.  Representative clients include major regional and national manufacturing companies and corporate users of commercial real estate, institutional investors, developers and lenders, and a number of foreign corporations.

With more than 25 years of experience in real estate law, Tom has handled complex commercial and real estate transactions across the country, including real estate acquisitions, workouts, equity participations, the structuring and financing of subordinated and unsubordinated ground leases, industrial development financing, and payment in lieu of tax agreement transactions.

Tom is a member of the Nashville (Real Estate Section), Tennessee (Real Estate Section) and the American (Real Property, Probate and Trust Section, Urban and Local Law Section and Section of Business Law) Bar Associations; the National Association of Bond Lawyers; The Tennessee Industrial Development Council; International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate; and the Tennessee-Japan Society.  He has served on the Board of Directors and in leadership roles at a number of nonprofit and charitable organizations, including the Adventure Science Center, the Nashville Opera Association, his Church and several others.

He is a Fellow in the American College of Mortgage Attorneys and is recognized in several national publications for his real estate law practice, including The Best Lawyers in America® 2009  and Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2008  and the Lawdragon Leading Lawyers in America.  He also is listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers 2008  for real estate, the Nashville Business Journal’s  2007 and 2008 Best of the Bar, the Nashville Business Journal's  2005 Heavy Hitters in Real Estate, Who's Who in America  and Who's Who in American Law. 

Tom is a former managing partner of Boult Cummings and has served on the firm's Board of Governors.

12/02/2008	Thirty-Seven Boult Cummings Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2009
11/10/2008	Seventeen Attorneys from Boult Cummings Named to Mid-South Super Lawyers 2008
10/21/2008	Recruitment Mission to Germany Includes Prominent Names
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12/08/2008	Industrial Development Incentives and Industrial Board Roles and Responsibilities
11/05/2008	IBC Breakfast: Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Nashville Business Climate
09/15/2008 - 09/16/2008	2008 Governor's Conference on Economic and Community Development
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