Negotiating M&A, Joint Ventures, and Commercial Contracts

Courtney specializes in commercial real estate, with a focus on commercial leasing.  Courtney works with landlords, tenants, property managers and brokers to help them navigate complex lease negotiations, renewals, assignments, disputes and related real estate matters.

Courtney also has experience with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracting and negotiation, and entity formation and governance. She has facilitated complex deals for communications enterprises, manufacturers and distributors, public bodies, real estate developers, IT service providers, and other entrepreneurs.

Courtney began at Willcox Savage as a summer associate in 2017 and returned as an associate in 2018 after earning her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Richmond School of Law, where she served on the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Technology and on the Moot Court, Trial Advocacy, and Client Counseling and Negotiation boards. She previously served as a judicial intern to Judge Arenda Wright Allen in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and as a judicial extern for Justice Cleo Powell of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Notable Work & Achievements

Public Bodies and Infrastructure Finance

Courtney serves as outside general counsel to public bodies on governance and statutory compliance, including the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act. She helped a regional public body secure approximately $1.66 billion in financing for interstate construction projects, coordinating documentation, disclosures, and approvals.

Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Transactions

Courtney has advised buyers, sellers, and investors on complex transactions across technology and media. She represented Landmark Media Enterprises in the sale of Homes.com to CoStar Group and guided an IT consulting firm through its sale to a publicly traded IT service management company. She has also counseled an investor executing a roll-up strategy among IT solutions and services providers and represented a publishing company in the divestiture of its community newspaper business.

Energy and Project Development

Courtney has experience representing a renewable energy developer expanding a portfolio of solar plus battery storage projects. She has advised on entity structure, joint venture arrangements, site control, and commercial agreements that support project finance and long-term operations, helping the platform scale responsibly while meeting interconnection, permitting, and vendor-management requirements.

Commercial Contracting and Governance

Across industries, Courtney drafts and negotiates sales, services, and non-disclosure agreements. She counsels entrepreneurs and established companies on entity selection, formation, and ongoing governance, creating frameworks that support future transactions.