Kevin Thomas

Kevin Thomas is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group and currently leads Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP’s Middle East and Africa Initiatives. Kevin represents institutional and entrepreneurial clients in virtually all types of commercial real estate projects, including, retail, multi-family, office and mixed-use projects. Kevin has substantial experience related to timberland and agribusiness investing.

Kevin regularly represented clients in the development of retail-focused, multi-use projects. These representations have spanned all phases of the projects, including, joint- venture formation and dissolution, site acquisition, construction, and permanent financing, leasing and sales.

As a partner on the Timber and Forest Products team, Kevin has been involved in many of the most significant timberland transactions of the last decade. Kevin has extensive experience advising Timberland Investment Management Organizations in all aspects of timberland projects, including, acquisitions, dispositions, timber deeds and leases, long-term supply agreements, conservation easements and carbon sequestration projects, as well as financing related to these projects.

Selected Experience

• Represented Fuqua Development in its Madison Yards project on the Beltline in Atlanta, Georgia, consisting of approximately 550 residential units, 80,000 square feet of office space and 160,000 square feet of retail space.
• Represented an international agricultural firm in its formation of a joint venture with a US partner to develop and operate a 16,000-acre farm in northwest Arizona.
• Represented CoBank, ABC as lead arranger and administrative agent in a syndicated financing that provided $750 million in credit facilities secured by approximately 1.1 million acres of timberlands in Texas.

Professional Activities

• Member, Georgia Bar Association
• Member, Atlanta Bar Association
• Member, International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
• Chair, American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Subcommittee on Agriculture and Agri-Business Finance