Top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP today announced the expansion of its Real Estate Practice Group with partner Nailah Tatum in Tallahassee. She brings experience handling complex commercial real estate transactions. Nailah joins Akerman from the Tallahassee Office of Bryant Miller Olive.

“Nailah has a reputation for providing exceptional service to clients on highly complex matters,” said Eric Rapkin, chair of Akerman’s Real Estate Practice Group. “For the past several years, she has been involved in a diverse range of real estate acquisitions, sales, financings, and leasing issues. She has the experience and insight to advise the firm’s growing number of investor and developer clients in the future.”

Tatum brings valuable experience representing developers, landlords, tenants, lenders, investors, educational institutions such as charter schools, universities and colleges, and governmental entities in connection with the acquisition, development, financing, leasing, and disposition of real estate.

Tatum joins at a time when the Real Estate Practice Group is experiencing significant growth. Last week, the firm announced the launch of its Data Center and Digital Infrastructure practice, led by chair James Grice and partner Michael McKinley. The national data centers team, including long-standing Akerman lawyers, is experienced in the many facets – technological, operational, and legal – of financing, planning, building, and operating data centers; the real estate-related issues, including permitting, environmental, leasing, co-location, and licensing agreements; and the regulatory, tax, and power purchase and power procurement strategies and agreements of this unique asset class.