Benjamin B. Bush, Florida Bar Board Certified in Real Estate, represents institutional and private lenders, developers and landowners in all types of financing and transactional real estate matters.
Benjamin B. Bush is a Florida Bar Board Certified Real Estate Attorney, and he is also a member of the Georgia Bar. Ben’s practice includes the areas of transactional Real Estate law, Commercial and Agricultural lending, and Real Property and Land Use law.
Ben represents institutional and private lenders in connection with the negotiation and documentation of real estate financing transactions, including real estate and asset-based lending, construction financing, permanent lending and loan workouts and restructures. He also represents landowners in connection with the acquisition, financing and disposition of commercial, agricultural and timberland properties. Additionally, Ben represents real estate developers in connection with the acquisition, development, financing, and disposition of real property for office, retail, condominium and mixed-use projects.
- Represented Seller in sale of 2,260 +/- acres of timberland in Gulf Co., FLA
- Represented Lender in Construction Loan for a Tallahassee Church in Leon Co., FLA
- Represented Seller in sale of 135 +/- acres of quail-woods timberland in Grady Co., GA
- Represented Lender in Acquisition Loan on 135 +/- acres of vacant land in Lake Co., FLA
- Represented Purchaser in acquisition of a fuel hauling business with headquarters site in Decatur Co., GA
- Represented Donee in the donation of vacant former Pizza Hut property in Madison Co., FLA
- Represented Seller in sale of 700 +/- acres of vacant timberland to the State of Florida in Jefferson Co., FLA
- Represented Lender in acquisition loan on mobile home park in Cobb Co., GA
- Represented Lender in substitution of collateral for commercial loan in Leon Co., FLA
- Represented Purchaser in acquisition of commercial development land in Chatham Co., GA
- Represented Purchaser in acquisition and financing of 445 +/- acres of high-fenced hunting plantation, including deer breeding and research facility, in Gadsden Co., FLA
- Represented Lender in equipment and inventory loan for a grocery store in Dougherty Co., GA
- Represented Landowner in negotiation of multiple solar leases and options in FLA and GA
- Represented Lender in refinance loan on mall property in Duvall Co., FLA
Education
- Florida State University College of Law, J.D., 2003
- Mercer University, B.S, 1998, Environmental Science
Bar Admissions
- Member of The Florida Bar (2003)
- Member of the Georgia Bar (2015)
- Member of Board of Directors for Pi Kappa Phi Properties, Inc., Vice Chair of Acquisitions
- The Florida Bar, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Tallahassee Bar Association
- Former Member of Florida Real Estate Appraisal Board
- Past President, Young Lawyers Section of the Tallahassee Bar Association
- Organizer for the Tallahassee Area Foster Kids Annual Christmas in July Fundraiser 2008 & 2009 for the Young Lawyers Section of the Tallahassee Bar Association
- Young Lawyer’s Section Representative to the Tallahassee Bar Association Board of Directors
- 2010-2012 Fellow of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- 2012 Thomas M. Ervin, Jr. Distinguished Young Lawyer Award
- Florida Laws and Rules class at the Southeast Builders Conference for the Florida Home Builders Association (2017-2021)