| Hannah Cassidy is a member of the firm who counsels owners, lenders, and investors through all phases of real estate development, including land acquisition, financing, construction, leasing, and disposition. She has structured transactions to combine private financing with various state and federal funding sources, such as tax credits, bonds, tax increment financing, AHP loans, federally insured loans, and grants. This experience enables her to facilitate the full range of commercial, residential and mixed use development with retail, office, market rate housing, and affordable housing components.
Hannah currently serves as President of the Board of Trustees of St. Mary Villa, a nonprofit, three-star child care center with sliding scale fees to ensure affordability for a diverse community of families. She served as Vice-President of Programs for Commercial Real Estate Women from 2003 to 2005 and is a former Personnel Chair of the Woodbine Community Organization, a nonprofit, community-based development organization.
Selected Recent Transactions
• Has closed over 100 real estate development transactions combining private financing with various state and federal funding sources
• Serves as lead real estate counsel to a publicly traded company in its nationwide acquisition and development of real property
• Served as lead counsel in the structuring of a Tennessee pilot program and preparation of form documents to enable nonprofit organizations to use the federal Section 8 to Homeownership program
Prior Work Experience Before entering law school, Hannah worked for Howell Associates, a real estate consulting firm in Washington, D.C. There she performed maket and financial feasibility studies for market rate and affordable housing develpments and assisted developers with applications to provide affordable housing to the elderly through HUD's Section 202 program. Awards, Community Activities and Professional Activities
• Member, American Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, and Nashville Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development
•Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University •John W. Wade Scholar, Vanderbilt University School of Law
• Bennett Douglas Bell Memorial Prize, Vanderbilt University School of Law
• Order of the Coif, Vanderbilt University School of Law
• Vanderbilt Law Review, Senior Notes Editor
• Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW)
• St. Mary Villa, President of the Board of Trustees
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