Felix Dowsley joined Bass, Berry & Sims in 1984 and became a Member of the firm in 1990. His practice is transactional in nature, focusing on commercial lending, secured transactions, real estate and general commercial law. Felix spends a majority of his time in the negotiation and documentation of a variety of financing and real estate transactions, including asset-based financings, syndicated revolving credit and term loan facilities, mezzanine and subordinated loans, construction loans and work-outs and restructures of credit facilities, as well as the sale and leasing of commercial real estate. Felix has served as practice head of the Commercial Lending and Real Estate Practice Group, as the firm's hiring partner and as a member of the firm's Executive Committee.
His legal experience includes:
- Representing a public hospitality company in a $1 billion secured revolving credit and term loan facility
- Representing a professional sports franchise in a $75 million syndicated credit facility
- Representing the agent bank in a syndicated $60 million and €26,000,000 revolving credit and term loan facility for a public manufacturing company with operations in the United States and Europe
- Representing a public company that owns a national chain of restaurants in a $125 million secured revolving credit facility
- Representing mezzanine lenders in subordinated loan transactions, including structuring equity participations and intercreditor arrangements with senior lenders
- Representing a variety of borrowers (both public and private entities) in corporate financings, including syndicated senior revolving credit and term loan facilities, both secured and unsecured, and real estate financings
- Representing lessors and lessees in a variety of commercial lease transactions
- Representing sellers and buyers in the sale and purchase of commercial real estate
- Serving as local counsel in numerous multi-state commercial lending and real estate transactions
- Representing creditors and borrowers in troubled loan transactions, including work-outs and foreclosures.
Born and raised in Humboldt, Tennessee, Felix graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1981 with a degree in finance. In 1984, Felix received his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he was a member of the Tennessee Law Review and the Order of the Coif. He is listed in Best Lawyers® and has been named one of Tennessee's leading real estate lawyers since 2003 by Chambers USA. Felix is also listed in the Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America.
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