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Stephen B.Schrock

Partner
Atlanta

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Stephen B.Schrock

Partner

Steve is a highly experienced partner in our Real Estate practice group and is based in the Atlanta office. With a practical and cost-effective approach, Steve is dedicated to helping clients navigate all aspects of commercial real estate transactions.

Over the past several years, Steve and his team of real estate, finance and corporate attorneys have focused on representing private debt issuers. Their work primarily involves facilitating loans from non-bank institutions to private companies for real estate-related projects based on cash flows, partnership equity or hard assets. In certain cases, these loans may carry a higher level of risk. Steve and his team often become deeply involved in loan work-out and restructuring negotiations. This work may lead to insolvency proceedings, foreclosure and the sale of indebtedness.

In addition to his work with private debt issuers, Steve provides valuable assistance to investors and special asset managers. He offers guidance and support in the purchase or sale of distressed single-asset properties or portfolios of distressed properties.

Best Lawyers 2025

Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for 5 years or longer.

Focus Areas

A sampling of Steve’s most recent experience includes representation of:

  • An international food storage and handling company in the development and construction of a state-of-the-art temperature-controlled import/export warehouse and distribution center at the Port of Houston.
  • A national homebuilder in all phases of the purchase of several Georgia single-family developments from contract negotiation and execution, due diligence, homeowner association and declaration matters to the closing of all the land or the take-down of the land by lot(s).
  • A multi-family housing borrower in connection with mezzanine and construction loan financing for an apartment development in Irvine, California.
  • A multi-family investor in the purchase of several apartment projects in Georgia and North Carolina.
  • A Timberland REIT listed on the NYSE in the acquisition, management and sale of approximately 500,000 acres of timberland located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
  • A German Timberland fund in the sale of several thousand acres of timberland in Florida.
  • A U.S. based Timberland Investment Management Fund in the sale of several thousand acres of timberland in Florida.
  • A U.K. based Timberland Investment Management Fund in the sale of several thousand acres of timberland in Florida and Georgia.
  • Several developers and investor of woody biomass pellet facilities in the Southeastern U.S.
  • Georgia Forestry Association’s 2014 Annual Conference & Expo, July 2014
  • Pellet Trade & Transport Summit, February 2014
  • Financing Renewable Energy Projects, February 2013
  • Panelist, Legal Issues Forum, National Conference of Private Forest Landowners, May 2012
  • UGA’s 2011 Timberland Investment Conference, March 2011
  • “Missed Opportunities and Common Mistakes: Legal Perspectives on Timberland Ownership,” 2010 Forest Landowners Association National Meeting
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2017 to 2025 for Real Estate Law
  • Named in The Legal 500 United States, Real Estate, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2016
  • Selected in the 2010 edition of Corporate Counsel as a “Georgia Real Estate Super Lawyer”
  • Selected to the Georgia Super Lawyers list, 2006-2009

Professional Associations

  • Atlanta Bar Association – Real Property Section
  • Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of the Southeast
  • Cobb County Chamber of Commerce – Leadership Cobb Class of 2002
  • Forest Landowners Association, Inc.
  • Georgia Forestry Association
  • German America Chamber of Commerce of the Southern United States
  • State Bar of Georgia – Real Property Section

Education

  • Mercer University School of Law, J.D.
  • University of South Florida, B.A.

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia