Emily Bowman, managing partner of the firm’s Nashville office, has spent her entire legal career at Bradley, where she has built a national real estate finance practice. Financial institutions, insurance companies, and real estate developers and investors rely on her more than 25 years of experience and her steady and sophisticated counsel for a wide range of matters, including the acquisition, sale, and financing of real estate assets.
Emily, who previously led Bradley’s Real Estate Practice Group, serves as lead counsel on real estate finance transactions across the country. She regularly guides real estate developers and investors through commercial real estate acquisitions, development, and dispositions. Emily closes a high volume of commercial real estate loans for both lender and borrower clients nationwide, spanning construction projects and completed developments across a variety of property types, including multifamily developments, industrial buildings, retail centers, senior living facilities, and office properties. She also issues legal opinion letters in connection with multi-state projects and serves as local counsel for transactions originating outside of Tennessee that are secured by real property located within the state.
A 1997 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Tennessee, Emily earned her law degree at Vanderbilt University Law School in 2000. Emily is a leader and active participant in several professional and community organizations and has earned some of the legal industry's most prestigious recognitions during her career.