Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP

63 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Corporate Law Leisure and Hospitality Law Mergers and Acquisitions Law Real Estate Law

Biography

Tony Barwick regularly assists clients in successfully structuring, negotiating and completing a wide variety of complex transactional matters. His experience includes advising financial institutions and corporate clients in multiple industries related to their financings, joint ventures and complex real estate acquisitions and dispositions.

He works with clients to structure, negotiate and close complex commercial transactions including representing clients through strategic asset acquisitions and joint ventures.

Tony has worked with companies of all sizes in transactions involving the acquisition, development and disposition of commercial real estate properties. He has represented lenders and borrowers in multi-million dollar real estate transactions involving hotels, multi-family properties and retail shopping centers. Tony has experience with representing both health care systems and physician owned groups in their real estate and banking needs. He enjoys working on various broadcast tower lease transactions including the acquisition and disposition of ground lease and space lease rights for the benefit of various telecommunication companies.

Tony's experience also includes securing financing, structuring credit facilities (including asset based and non-asset based credit facilities) and working closely with financial institutions and borrowers in credit workouts and restructuring matters.

Tony has a particular interest in representing hospitality companies in connection with their transactional needs, including the negotiation of licenses, management and development agreements, financings and asset acquisitions and dispositions.

Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP

63 Best Lawyers awards

Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP logo

Overview

  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., graduated 2001
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., graduated 1997

  • Georgia, Georgia
  • North Carolina, North Carolina

  • Association for Corporate Growth - Raleigh/Durham Chapter - Member
  • Commercial Real Estate Finance Council - Member
  • Loan Syndications and Trading Association - Member
  • Urban Land Institute - Member

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
  • Georgia, Georgia
  • North Carolina, North Carolina
  • Association for Corporate Growth - Raleigh/Durham Chapter - Member
  • Commercial Real Estate Finance Council - Member
  • Loan Syndications and Trading Association - Member
  • Urban Land Institute - Member
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., graduated 2001
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., graduated 1997
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Corporate Law
  • Leisure and Hospitality Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Real Estate Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Construction Law
  • Franchise Law
  • Commercial Finance Law
  • Utilities Law
Awards:
  • Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in Real Estate Law (2021-2025), Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2024-2025), Leisure and Hospitality Law (2024-2025) and Corporate Law (2024-2025)

  • Recognized by his peers for inclusion in Business North Carolina's "Legal Elite" in Real Estate Law (2023-2025)

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