Practice Expertise

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Real Estate
  • Natural Resources Litigation
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Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Natural Resources Litigation
  • Real Estate
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Profile

Kay Bains is a retired partner who represented banks for 30 years, specializing in three areas of critical importance: documenting and negotiating commercial real estate loans, selling distressed assets (both notes and OREO properties), and buying, selling, leasing and developing bank branches, headquarters and operations centers throughout a bank's footprint.
 
Kay has a thorough understanding of operational and financial aspects of the banking business. She was involved in hundreds of transactions, including:

- over 500 acquisitions of real estate sites for bank use
- over 350 dispositions of bank branches and other bank-owned real estate
- Sale of hundreds of millions of dollars of distressed loans

Bar Admissions

  • Alabama, 1980

Education

  • Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, J.D., 1980, summa cum laude; Law Review, Articles Editor
  • Auburn University, B.A., 1969, magna cum laude; Phi Kappa Phi

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Natural Resources Litigation
  • Real Estate

Blogs

BuildSmart

Significant issues can arise during the three phases of the design and construction process. Effective planning, performance and completion are critical to the success of any construction project. So is informed counsel that addresses a variety of business issues, including mergers and acquisitions, environmental and regulatory compliance, labor and employment, and bankruptcy and tax matters. The Bradley Construction team has extensive industry knowledge and experience that allows us to...

Declassified

The Declassified blog offers commentary and insights on the latest class action suits, significant class action opinions, relevant changes to laws and rules, and important class action trends. Declassified covers topics ranging from significant Supreme Court and appellate court decisions regarding class certification requirements to proposed or enacted legislation, rules and regulations that impact class action litigation to key industry developments that may indirectly impact class action...

The Law of Order

Bradley’s The Law of Order blog serves as a general parliamentary procedure resource, providing information about creation and revision of governing documents (constitutions, bylaws, or rules), application of Robert’s Rules of Order and other procedural authorities in a variety of contexts (such as nonprofits, political parties, homeowners associations, unions, churches, trade associations), and leadership of any type of organizational meeting. In an effort to make all things parliamentary more...

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