Profile

LaToya Brown represents developers in connection with the acquisition, sale, leasing and financing of commercial and residential real estate projects throughout North Carolina. She also represents landlords and tenants in connection with the leasing of commercial properties throughout North Carolina.

While at Vanderbilt University Law School, Ms. Brown was the executive authorities editor of the Journal of Transnational Law.

Experience Highlights

• New construction and redevelopment projects include shopping centers, office buildings, apartments, condominiums, residential subdivisions, industrial manufacturing, warehouse and distribution facilities
• Due diligence, lot acquisitions and sales, ILSA disclosure requirements (residential), property owners’ association and restrictive covenants regimes, infrastructure issues, post-development management and sales
• Planned unit development approvals and site-specific development issues, such as stormwater management, temporary construction easements and site plan and subdivision plat review
  Title review and analysis, and title insurance defense claims
• Ownership, development and lien issues affecting distressed assets and negotiating REO transactions
• Acquisition, use, management and abandonment of easements and rights of way for a variety of purposes, including cranes, conservation easements, railroads, public utilities, public highways and roads, private driveways, sidewalks and greenways
• Preparation and negotiation of leases on behalf of landlords and tenants for office, industrial and retail properties, including, as tenant’s counsel, leases for supermarkets in new and existing shopping centers
• Creation of restrictive covenant and architectural control regimes for residential, commercial and mixed-use developments, and review of restrictive covenants for compliance with the North Carolina Planned Community Act
• Creation of commercial and residential condominiums and review of restrictive covenants for compliance with the North Carolina Condominium Act

News

• Parker Poe, Once Again, Welcomes Largest Class of Fall Associates
  November 1, 2007

Publications

“The Title VII Tug-of-War: Application of U.S. Employment Discrimination Law Extraterritorially,” 40 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 833 (2007)