Negotiating Nationwide Retail, Office, and Industrial Leases

Nate Tyler chairs Willcox & Savage’s Commercial Real Estate Section and counsels owners, developers, lenders, and tenants through the full life cycle of commercial property deals. His practice spans acquisitions and dispositions, development and redevelopment, leasing, and finance across retail, office, and industrial assets. Landlords rely on Nate to negotiate and modify anchor, stand-alone, and ground leases with national and regional tenants, including national grocery, apparel, specialty retail, coffee, wireless, and restaurant operators. He also represents tenants in local, regional, and national leasing programs, and advises on 1031 exchanges and portfolio transactions. On the finance side, he represents borrowers and lenders in construction, permanent, and bridge loans.

Notable Work & Achievements

Landlord leasing counsel

Represents landlords in retail, industrial, and office portfolios locally and throughout the region, negotiating anchor, stand-alone, and ground leases with tenants such as Publix, Whole Foods, Amazon, Harris Teeter, Petco, PetSmart, TJX Brands, Ulta, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Dollar General/pOpshelf, Dollar Tree, First Watch, Buffalo Wild Wings, Chipotle,  Texas Roadhouse, Olive Garden, Verizon, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Wendy’s, Habit Burger, Shake Shack, Paneras, Chase JP Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Dollar Bank. His work regularly addresses co-tenancy, use restrictions, assignment, default and reconciliation provisions.

Tenant leasing and concept rollouts

Guides retailers, industrial operators, and office users through letter of intent/RFP and lease negotiations, including implementing nationwide rollouts of new store concepts, aligning legal terms with brand, buildout, and schedule requirements.

Acquisitions and redevelopment

Represents buyers acquiring improved and unimproved properties for development and redevelopment of shopping centers and industrial spaces, coordinating diligence, land use considerations, and closing.

Real estate finance

Represents borrowers and lenders on construction, permanent, and bridge loans, and manages defeasance of permanent loans. Has closed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of loans as both lender counsel and borrower counsel.

Portfolio business sale

Represented a regional Pizza Hut franchisee in the sale of its business that included the transfer of 100 locations, coordinating real estate, franchise, and lease-assignment issues to deliver a clean exit.

Public-sector facility transaction.

Advised a regional waste authority in the sale of a plant facility, aligning commercial terms with public-entity requirements and operational continuity.

1031 exchange counsel

Represents buyers and sellers in like-kind exchanges, integrating timing, identification, and financing constraints with closing logistics to preserve tax advantages.

Office replacement and sale

Represented Fortune 500 company in acquisition and construction of new high rise headquarters building and subsequent sale of former headquarters campus.