William-Mizell

Overview

Will Mizell represents clients in various commercial and real estate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, complex lease and servitude agreements for industrial sites, commercial real estate transactions, and business reorganizations.

Prior to focusing on business and real estate transactions, Will developed unique experience in a wide range of civil litigation, which he applies in his transactional practice to achieve efficient resolutions to complex matters. His litigation experience includes cases involving product defect and redhibition claims, construction disputes, oil field clean up, employment disputes, and various commercial matters that have included multi-district litigation and other complex litigation scenarios. He has also represented plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of personal injury disputes in Louisiana state and federal courts.

Representative Matters

Represented client in preferred equity investment in a new grocery anchored shopping center development near Atlanta, Georgia.
Represented client in the acquisition and leaseback of a hospital in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, involving the deployment of 1031 exchange proceeds and the acquisition of only a co-ownership interest in the project with the seller retaining an undivided interest.
Represented purchaser in a sale and leaseback transaction for the acquisition of a multi-state portfolio of quick-service restaurants.
Represented client in the acquisition of the ownership interests of all other project participants and close out of the New Markets Tax Credit and Historic Tax Credit investors in a multiuse apartment, office, food court and event hall project in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.
Represented borrower in obtaining acquisition financing for a 261,643 square foot office-building and parking garage complex in Atlanta, Georgia.
Represented lender in the provision of secured financing to the purchaser of a Class-A office building situated on 29 acres of land and consisting of 227,270 square feet of office space in Jacksonville, Florida.
Represented condominium association and hundreds of co-owners as sellers in a first-of-its-kind transaction in Louisiana that included a months-long bidding and selection process for potential buyers and a court-supervised partition sale process.
Obtained zoning approval for lessor to allow its tenant, a marquee New Orleans Radio Station, to re-locate to its new home in the historic Jax Brewery.
Coordinated with Bureau of Ocean Energy Management representatives to conduct regulatory filings related to the client's acquisition of oil and gas leases, pipeline rights of way, and other assets located on the Outer Continental Shelf.
Represented borrower in connection with the negotiation of security instruments relating to assets located on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Professional & Civic Activities

Professional and Civic Activities

American College of Mortgage Attorneys, fellow.
Tulane Association of Business Alumni, executive committee member.
American Bar Association, member and Vice Chair of the Title Insurance and Surveys Committee for the Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section.
Young Leadership Council, member.