Bradley Expands Real Estate, Banking and Financial Services Practices with the Addition of David Pratt and Anna Lee Alford
Dallas office doubles headcount in just 14 months
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that prominent business attorney David L. Pratt has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner, expanding the firm’s real estate, banking, and financial services practices. Anna Lee Alford also joins the firm as an associate.
“Adding David and Anna Lee to our Dallas office allows us to enhance the business transactional services we can provide to our clients on the local, regional, and national level,” said Richard A. Sayles, managing partner of Bradley’s Dallas office. “David is well known in the Texas legal community for his broad real estate and financial services practice, and his skills will help us better meet the expectations of our clients.”
Bradley Chairman and Managing Partner Jonathan Skeeters added, “The addition of David to our Dallas office reflects the firm’s commitment to expanding the transactional services we offer to clients in Texas and beyond, even in a challenging economy. David’s deep skill set, broad experience and client base of lenders, developers and operators will allow the firm to expand our capabilities in Texas while we continue to successfully meet our clients’ needs across the country.”
Pratt brings a pragmatic business-oriented approach to counseling clients based on his more than 25 years as a general business, banking, and commercial real estate law attorney. Mr. Pratt represents developers and operators in all aspects of development transactions including land-use planning, construction, and lending matters; as well as the representation of landlords and tenants in retail, office and industrial development, sales and leasing transactions. In addition, his practice includes the representation of banks and other financial institutions in a variety of loan originations, workouts, and foreclosure transactions. Before joining Bradley, Pratt was a founding partner of Johnston Pratt PLLC and a director with Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC. Pratt received his J.D. from the University of Tulsa Law School and his B.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.
“Joining Bradley is a client-driven decision. Many of my clients need a full-service law firm with a deep bench of attorneys that can offer high-quality legal services efficiently, and at rates that offer high value. Bradley covers all of these bases, and I am thrilled to join the firm,” Mr. Pratt said.
Alford joins as an associate from Pratt’s former firm and focuses her practice on real estate finance, financial services, and business and corporate transactions. She advises commercial lenders and commercial real estate owners, developers, investors and tenants. Alford received her J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law and has a M.S. in Finance and a B.S.B.A. (cum laude) in International Business.
Bradley’s Dallas office has doubled in size since it opened in January 2019. In addition, the firm has grown to more than 45 lawyers located across offices in Dallas and Houston, and more than 70 lawyers licensed in the state, allowing the firm to handle a wide variety of legal issues for clients in Texas and beyond.
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Bradley combines skilled legal counsel with exceptional client service and unwavering integrity to assist a diverse range of corporate and individual clients in achieving their business goals. With offices in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the District of Columbia, the firm’s nearly 550 lawyers represent regional, national and international clients in various industries, including banking and financial services, construction, energy, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, real estate, and technology, among many others.
