Brad is a managing associate in the Commercial Finance Practice Group and serves as the Co-Chair of the firm’s Multifamily Housing Industry Sub-Team. He has extensive experience representing developers, investors, syndicators, and lenders across the country in the multifamily housing industry, particularly in the areas of affordable housing and historic preservation. Brad routinely advises developers and investors in the structuring and closing of new construction and rehabilitation deals involving state and federal low-income housing tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits, and multiple layers of financing, including federal, state and local loan and grant programs.
Brad is a member of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law and serves on the Tax Credits and Equity Financing Committee. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in Americaยฎ: Ones to Watch for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 as well as in the Kentucky Super Lawyersยฎ Rising Stars for 2022, 2023 and 2024. ย Brad was a member of YPAL’s Emerging Leaders Program in the Spring of 2016, and he is currently participating in Leadership Louisville’s Ignite Program for the Spring of 2024. He is a proud Kentucky Colonel and currently serves as a past president of the Kentucky alumni chapter of the University of Miami (FL).
Representation of a national syndicator as investor with respect to the construction and/or rehabilitation of more than 6,750 multifamily housing units across 20 states with total project costs exceeding $1.4 billion dollars in the past 5 years.
Representation of a developer in the successful work-out of a situation involving a defaulted $18,675,000 tax-exempt bond loan, low-income housing tax credit equity, and substantial land use restrictions.
Representation of a large regional bank in making a construction loan and an equity investment in a low-income housing tax project involving 9% tax credits.
Representation of multiple developers and syndicators in the structuring of opportunity zone funds with total equity exceeding $10 million dollars.
Representation of a national syndicator as investor with respect to the acquisition of a multifamily housing complex located in North Carolina, involving a partial RAD conversion, Section 8 HAP contract, HOPE VI Loan, and tax-exempt bond issuance.
Representation of an investor with respect to the acquisition, rehabilitation and construction of a multifamily housing complex involving low-income housing tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits, and two condominium regimes.
Representation of an investor with respect to the acquisition and rehabilitation of a multifamily housing complex utilizing federal and state low-income housing tax credits with collateralized tax-exempt bonds and HUD 223(f) financing.
Representation of a developer in the acquisition of a vacant factory and its subsequent redevelopment into an assisted living facility involving historic rehabilitation tax credits and traditional bank financing.
University of Kentucky, J.D., cum laude
University of Miami, Florida, B.B.A., Entrepreneurship and minor in Marketing
Harvard University, Real Estate Investment Graduate Certificate, January 2023
Selected for inclusion in Kentucky Rising Starsยฎ, 2022-2024
The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watchยฎ, Real Estate Law, 2021-2024; Tax Law, 2021-2024
Kentucky Real Estate Investors Association
Young Professionals Association of Louisville
American Bar Association
Kentucky Bar Association
Louisville Bar Association
YPAL Cares, Inc., Board of Directors & Secretary, 2016-2017
The Louisville Chorus, Inc., Board of Directors, 2016-2017
Louisville โCanes (UM Alumni Group), Past President, 2016-Present
Honorable Order of the Kentucky Colonels, Member, 2016-Present
YPAL Emerging Leaders Program, Graduate, Spring 2016
“The Basics of Community Solar Projects and Their Application to Multifamily Projects,” Energy Law Advisor, Institute for Energy Law – The Center for American and International Law, April 2023: 12-16
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