Trent Jernigan

Practice Areas

Trent focuses his practice on the acquisition, leasing, financing, development and sale of retail, office and industrial properties. He represents brand name investors and private equity clients, big-box retailers, pubic companies, and sophisticated real estate developers. He has extensive experience negotiating build-to-suit leases, long term ground leases, and joint venture arrangements for real estate acquisitions. He also represents landlords and tenants with Class A office leases throughout the US.

Trent is leader of Womble Bond Dickinson's US Real Estate Practice Group and US Timberland and Agricultural Resources Team, having worked on several of the largest timberland transactions in the country.

Career

Trent is the quintessential deal lawyer; helping his clients acquire, finance, develop, lease, manage and sell commercial real estate. His clients call on him because he has a proven record of helping them structure and close their most important deals. Trent’s attention to detail and ability to manage large projects, combined with his extensive legal experience and practical approach to solving problems, enables his clients to achieve their goals and close their deals on target.

Trent represents brand name clients within the institutional investment and private-equity arenas, national and regional big-box retailers, public companies, sophisticated developers and real estate sponsors and investors. He has extensive experience negotiating build-to-suit leases, long term ground leases and joint venture arrangements for real estate acquisitions involving retail, office, multi-family, industrial and mixed-use projects. He also represents landlords and tenants with Class A office leases throughout the US.

In addition to serving as leader of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group, Trent heads the Firm’s US Timberland and Agricultural Resources Team. He has significant experience representing institutional timberland and agricultural investment managers with acquiring, financing, managing, and selling large timberland and agricultural investment properties along the east coast and in the southwestern US. He has been the lead real estate attorney on several of the largest timberland transactions in the country. He also regularly advises timberland owners in negotiating supply agreements with public company pulp, paper, log, and wood chip mills.