Graham provides comprehensive legal support to clients for real estate development, leasing, acquisition, and disposition transactions nationwide. His practice covers numerous product types, including multifamily, office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use properties. Graham takes a business-oriented approach to his practice, helping to ensure that his legal strategies align with his clients’ broader business goals. His comprehensive understanding of both legal and practical issues, combined with his commitment to client success, make him a trusted advisor in the industry.

• Represented a client in a high-profile portfolio sale of REIT interests (or, in the case of a few assets, fee title) for more than 35 stabilized luxury multifamily assets (high-rise, mid-rise, and garden product), together with ground floor retail in some instances, located in premier markets across the U.S. This was a significant portfolio sale that has been reported on as a result of its size, combined purchase price, and complexity, including by the Wall Street Journal. The project included drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, along with ancillary documents, with more than 10 institutional purchasers. This was a fast-moving transaction which involved complex corporate issues relating to the sale of REIT shares.
• Represented a buyer with respect to the acquisition of a 260,000-square-foot retail shopping center in Charlotte, NC, for a sales price in excess of $110 million.
• Represented a landlord in leasing 600,000+ square feet of office space in two office towers within a 635,000 square foot mixed-use development in South End (Charlotte, NC), which included negotiating five corporate headquarters leases.
• Represented a landlord in leasing a 370,000+ square-foot Class A+ office building in South End (Charlotte, NC).
• Represented a tenant in leasing more than 60,000-square-feet of space in an office building in Greenville, SC, for that client’s new corporate headquarters.
• Represented a national grocery store chain with respect to its acquisition and development of new stores along the East Coast.
• Represented a publicly traded, national restaurant chain with respect to all real estate related matters, including tenant-side leasing, acquisitions, and dispositions.
• Represented multifamily developers in the acquisition and development of multifamily residential projects throughout the U.S.
• Represented a national tire distributor with respect to all real estate related matters, including tenant-side leasing, acquisitions, and dispositions.
• Represented a developer in the acquisition, development, and grounding leasing of sites throughout the Southeast for national convenience store operators as the end users.
• Represented sellers and purchasers in acquisitions, dispositions, and financings for income-producing office, retail, industrial and other commercial projects nationally.

• Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Real Estate Law (2023-2026)
• Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer (2025) – independently rated lawyers