Andrea P. Perry, Attorney – Bone McAllester Norton

Overview

Andrea P. Perry concentrates her practice in the areas of real estate, commercial lending, general corporate, entertainment, and tax-exempt organizations. As a real estate attorney, Andrea regularly handles matters related to the conveyance, acquisition, and development of commercial property, both new development and construction.

Her experience includes representing clients in connection with the development and acquisition of condominiums, apartments, office buildings, and other commercial properties. She also represents landlords and tenants, both public and private, in the negotiation of commercial leases for a wide variety of uses.

In addition, Andrea represents financial institutions and borrowers in loan transactions involving all types of collateral and projects. She also provides general advice to business clients from basic entity formation through all phases of their growth.

As an entertainment lawyer, Andrea provides legal services to assist artists with their efforts in the entertainment industry. She works with clients in their endeavors to submit and place their material with professional entertainment, publishing, and media industry recipients, including film, music, and television projects.Before joining Bone McAllester Norton, Andrea worked with the Nashville law firm of Miller & Martin. 

A life-long resident of Tennessee, Andrea was born in Memphis where she graduated from Central High School. Upon graduating magna cum laude from the University of Memphis, Andrea decided to go to law school to fulfill her elementary school dream. Her interest in law was sparked when, “I participated as a defense lawyer in a mock trial in the third grade.” She explains, “My client was Johnny B. Good, and he had been accused of burglary. Armed with a plastic briefcase and the facts, I was determined to prove his innocence. The trial lasted less than an hour. The verdict: NOT GUILTY. I loved every moment of it, and at that moment, I knew I wanted to be a lawyer.”

Andrea says the best part of being a lawyer is working with her clients. She says, “My clients entrust to me their secrets, their business, and their money in hopes that I will help them in such a way that their lives will be better… What a privilege and one that I take seriously.”

Practice Areas

Banking and Financial Services

Bone McAllester Norton’s Banking and Financial Services Group has a diversified and comprehensive financial services practice. Our financial lawyers regularly act as counsel to banks, thrifts, holding companies and nonbank affiliates. Our attorneys in the banking law practice area regularly publish and speak to financial services industry associations and professional organizations, including the Tennessee Bankers Association.

Our exceptionally strong team of regulatory lawyers offers our clients a powerful combination of knowledge and experience.  With access to key decision-makers in the appropriate banking agencies, this understanding and expertise allows us to anticipate potential problems and address deal issues before they become more serious.

The Banking and Financial Services Group offers legal services in five principal areas:

• Transactional Matters
• Regulatory Counseling
• Corporate Governance
• Enforcement and Litigation

Business and Corporate Law

he Business and Corporate Law attorneys of Bone McAllester Norton are a team of professionals with acknowledged expertise in assisting clients in the areas of acquisitions and dispositions of business interests and asset purchases, stock purchases and mergers.  Our corporate law practice helps businesses through their formation process, including entity selection and specific bylaw and operating agreement considerations, as well as through the winding down and dissolution process.

Our business lawyers have experience assisting corporate clients with board of director issues, annual shareholder meetings, proxy and quorum issues, preparation of minutes and resolutions and other corporate governance concerns.

We also assist businesses and corporations in avoiding litigation through careful drafting and negotiation of key contract provisions. We provide guidance with the details that distinguish and make legally valid a bill of sale, acquisition agreement, non-compete agreements, nondisclosure agreements, severance agreements, supplier agreements, vendor agreements and many others.

Construction Law

Bone McAllester Norton’s Commercial Lending and Creditors’ Rights Group provides transactional and litigation advice to banks, businesses and individuals in all aspects of the lending process, from preparation to enforcement of the loan documents, including foreclosure and litigation. 

Commercial Loan Documentation, Protecting Collateral and Renewals and Re-Structure Negotiations/Work-Outs

We represent banks and other lenders in credit facility transactions across a wide array of industries, secured by all forms of collateral. Our lawyers are experts at negotiating and structuring new credit facilities and preparing all necessary loan documentation for a new loan transaction. We have extensive experience with loans for all usual purposes, including real estate acquisition and development loans, construction loans, business acquisition loans, commercial and industrial loans and working capital facilities. Our attorneys also advise lenders involved in syndicated loan transactions. We regularly participate in the negotiation and documentation of loan amendments, renewals, modifications, re-structures and consolidations.

We work with our lender clients to prepare documents that fully satisfy the needs of the loan transaction and provide the lender with all necessary protections in the event of default, collection or litigation.

Entertainment Law

Bone McAllester Norton’s Entertainment Law practice provides a broad range of legal services to clients involved in the creation, production, management and protection of all forms of creative works.  Our media and entertainment lawyers understand the unique needs of the entertainment industry, whether putting a deal together or vigorously enforcing clients’ contractual and intellectual property rights.

Our attorneys focus on the following areas:

• Copyright law and licensing
• Music publishing
• Record label agreements
• Music licensing
• Business development and entity formation
• Film and television
• Media relations
• Sponsorship and endorsement agreements
• Trademark protection and entity formation and licensing
• Social media legal advice
• Right of publicity and branding guidance
• Dispute avoidance and resolution, through counseling, litigation, arbitration and mediation

Clients include record labels, celebrities, reality TV talent, music production companies, authors, visual artists, choreographers, film and television production companies, music publishers, recording artists, songwriters, music producers, artist managers, promoters and music industry and entertainment entrepreneurs. Whether serving a start-up company or an established recording artist, we are dedicated to helping our entertainment clients achieve their business and litigation objectives.

The ability to build long-term relationships is crucial to fostering a client’s success, and our attorneys are committed to the accessibility, diligence and strategies necessary to create and sustain these connections. Our detailed knowledge of intellectual property, litigation and dispute resolution and the evolving entertainment industry serves the needs of our clients throughout their careers.

Non-Profits and Tax-Exempt Entities

Our Non-Profits and Tax-Exempt Entities practice group is comprised of attorneys who work with organizations that make a difference in the lives of those in our community, and includes understanding the increasingly complex and ever-changing laws affecting non-profit organizations, foundations and tax-exempt entities in the Middle Tennessee area. Lawyers in this group successfully assist non-profits in all phases of their operations, from formation and applying for tax-exempt status to mergers and dissolution. Our non-profit organization lawyers advise on key issues and guides in establishing a structure that meets operational and organizational needs.

We have represented hundreds of organizations, including schools, arts organizations, children’s programs, churches and rotaries.

We have experience in the following areas:

• Obtaining tax exempt status (501(c)3)
• Contracts and lease agreements
• Employment issues and labor relations
• Trademark
• Copyright protection
• Board governance
• Mergers and liquidations

Real Estate

Bone McAllester Norton’s Real Estate practice group represents a diverse set of real estate clients, including nationwide and regional companies, REITs, closely-held companies and individuals. Our real estate clients are involved in an array of ventures, from single-site acquisitions and dispositions to nationwide programmatic development projects and ongoing lease administration.

Because we are engaged in a full spectrum of real estate transactions for our clients, we are able to handle detailed and complex matters in an efficient and cost-sensitive way. We also deal with all types of real estate litigation, in consultation with our firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group.

We have substantial hands-on experience in the following areas:

• Acquisitions and dispositions
• Development and incentives
• Leasing
• Financing of commercial real estate
• Property owner association formation
• Real estate dispute resolution