Laura Seidel

Laura L. Seidel

Partner
Atlanta

Laura L. Seidel co-leads the firm's Insurance Company and Institutional Investments Team and leads the firm's Banking and Financial Services Insurance Industry Team. She practices general real estate law, with a focus on financing, leasing, acquisitions and dispositions, loan servicing matters, and distressed asset matters. Laura has significant experience in structuring, negotiating, and closing acquisition loans, bridge loans, construction loans, and permanent loans secured by assets and by all types of commercial real estate, including office, retail, industrial, warehouse, multifamily, assisted living, and hotel properties. Laura is licensed to practice in Florida and Georgia.

Experience 

Representative Matters

  • National life insurance company in closing a $100 million loan secured by warehouses in multiple states
  • National life insurance company in restructuring a $91 million pool of loans secured by Marriott Hotels
  • National life insurance company in closing a $40 million loan secured by an apartment project

Professional Highlights

Professional Activities

State Bar of Georgia, Business Law and Real Property Law Sections

The Florida Bar, Business Law and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Sections

Recognition & Accomplishments

The Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance Law (Atlanta), 2023, 2024, Real Estate Law (Atlanta), 2024

The Legal 500 US, Real Estate and Construction – Real Estate, 2015-2016

Credentials 

Education

New York University School of Law (LL.M., Taxation, 1993)

University of Illinois College of Law (J.D. 1992)

Mercer University (B.B.A. 1989, summa cum laude)

Admissions

Florida

Georgia