Real Estate Sales

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Atlanta, Georgia 30324 E-mail:

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WilliamJamesMolloy

Education BA, major in Political Science, University of Florida, May 2003

JD, Levin College of Law, University of Florida, December 2006

Professional Admitted to the Georgia Bar 6/10/2008.

Member in Good Standing

Experience

Alston and Byrd, LLP, December 2014 – present

Contract Attorney.

Working within the Financial Services Practice Group; primary responsibilities

are client interaction and drafting/revising payment systems documents.

DR Horton, Inc., June 2014 – September 2014

Contract Attorney.

Acted as corporate counsel for a division of a national residential homebuilder.

Primary duties included negotiating and drafting purchase and sale agreements

for raw acreage and developed or undeveloped building lots.

Community Loans of America, Inc./

NAM Real Estate LLC, August 2008 – June 2014

Corporate Counsel.

Acted as sole real estate counsel for a multi-state consumer finance and

lending corporation with over 1000 branch locations in 27 states, Puerto Rico

and the United Kingdom

Negotiated and papered all aspects of new leases and lease renewals,

including portfolio wide rent reductions

Negotiated and closed multiple commercial real estate purchase and sale

agreements, as well as the acquisition and assimilation of several competing

businesses

Secured business licensing and state/local permits for all new locations,

including special use and conditional use permits in multiple jurisdictions

Acted as managing counsel on multiple real estate related lawsuits and

litigation

Acted as managing counsel on seven condemnation/eminent domain actions

Personally selected and secured fifty+ new retail locations in California for a

major expansion effort

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AT&T Mobility – Network Real Estate Administration Division, February

2008 – August 2008

Business Process/Lease Administrator.

Responsibility auditing, negotiating, and terminating real estate licenses and

leases for AT&T Mobility. Additional responsibility with all facets of the

“business process” of real estate management.

Molloy & James, January 2003 – January 2008

Legal Assistant/Paralegal.

Experience drafting purchase and sale (real property) agreements, drafting

development agreements (between developers and Hillsborough County),

forming homeowners associations and drafting related declarations and

supplements, and drafting various real estate related documents (deeds,

easements, easement agreements, etc.)

Additionally, experience with land development, including re-zonings, major

modifications to the comprehensive plan, planned developments, developments

of regional impact, and community development districts

Savage, Krim, Simons, and Jones, May 2001 – December 2002

Runner/Clerk.

The position involved serving papers, various runner responsibilities, and legal

research. The firm was counsel for a large hospital, and the majority of their

work involved litigation centered around insurance issues.

Additional Note/Citation Checker, Journal of International Law, University of Florida Levin

College of Law

professional

activities Member, Entertainment Law Review, University of Florida Levin College of Law

Tampa Bay Builders Association

Emerge Tampa (Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce for Young Professionals).

American Bar Association

Georgia Bar – Young Lawyers Division

References Joseph Luckett, CLA, 404-***-****, ********@*******.***

Don Hulse, VP, Community Loans of America, 770-***-****

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Charles Johnson, Managing Member, NAM Real Estate, LLC 770-***-****

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Representative REIT Engagements for NAM Real Estate, LLC, and on

behalf of Community Loans of America, Inc.

Acted as primary counsel for a national REIT composed of retail/consumer finance

establishments, with more than thirty (30) holdings in twelve different states

Oversaw annual appraisals of the REIT, which was valued at nearly twenty four million dollars

Negotiated and drafted purchase and sale agreements for acquisitions and sales to the REIT,

drafted closing documents, and obtained and approved requisite title insurance and binders

Notable transactions:

- Purchase of three (3) former Sonic Restaurants in Texas, total price of $750,00.00

- Sale of a distressed financial institution in Orlando, Florida, at $450,000.00

- Purchase of two (2) former restaurants in the Columbus, Ohio area, at $850,000.00

- Purchase and rezoning to commercial for redevelopment of an apartment complex in

the Palm Beach, Florida area at $400,000.00

- Purchase of a former Compass Bank in Cullman, Alabama, at $250,000.00

- Purchase of a distressed property in Pearl, Mississippi at $400,000.00

Managed, oversaw, and evaluated due diligence (environmental, title, survey, etc.) for

acquisitions into the REIT

Managed an entire portfolio transfer of the REIT, and oversaw several quiet tile actions for

holdings

Site Selection/Expansion on behalf of Community Loans of America, Inc.:

Personally selected 70+ locations in California, Virginia, and Georgia for an expansion effort

Evaluated and presented 70+ locations for viability in the consumer finance industry

Obtained local licensing, through the public hearing process, for more than a dozen locations in

metro Atlanta and the state of Virginia (primarily in the Richmond/DC area)

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