James G. M. Lenschau

James G. M. Lenschau is a member of his firm’s Real Estate and Lending Team. His practice focuses on commercial real estate, secured lending and related business transactions. Mr. Lenschau represents investor groups, developers, acquisition and leasing entities, small businesses, nonprofits and individuals in transactions involving the acquisition, disposition, development and financing of commercial property. His work spans office buildings, warehouses, hotels, multifamily housing and shopping centers. He also handles real estate leasing for both landlords and tenants.

Across these matters, Mr. Lenschau works on contract negotiations, title insurance, and title and survey evaluations. He serves as local counsel in multistate transactions, provides guidance on Tennessee law and delivers Tennessee legal opinions. His advice to real estate owners also covers economic development, entitlements, qualified opportunity zones, environmental matters and brownfield redevelopment. He is an approved title attorney for Chicago Title Insurance Company.

Mr. Lenschau’s lending practice includes representing financial institutions, other lenders and borrowers in commercial real estate loans, commercial asset-based loans and unsecured credit facilities.

• Represent owners, landlords and tenants of real estate in a wide variety of projects, including the acquisition, financing, leasing and sale of shopping centers, hotels and multi-family housing developments, and office, commercial, and retail spaces and centers.
• Assist businesses that are expanding in or relocating to Tennessee through various economic development incentives.
• Draft and negotiate documents related to entity formation, acquisition and sale.
• Drafting and negotiating Brownfield agreements.
• Counsel real estate owners in a wide variety of residential, office, commercial and retail developments.

• J.D., Southern Methodist University (Editor-in-Chief, Computer Law Review and Technology Journal)
• B.S., Geography, University of California, Davis

• Approved Title Examining Attorney Chicago Title Insurance Company
• Mid-South Super Lawyers, Tennessee in the area of Real Estate (2013-present)
• Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Commercial Transactions/UCC Law and Real Estate Law, 2016-present

• Memphis Bar Association (Board Member, 2005)
• Memphis Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Tennessee Bar Association
• Environmental Section, Executive Council (2014 - Present)
• Real Estate Section, Executive Council (2015 - Present; Chair, 2019 - 2020)