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Emily Hart Breece

Partner
Atlanta | 470.240.3047
Fax | 404.869.6972

Emily Hart (Cobb) Breece represents both public and private entities in a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, landlord and tenant commercial leasing, title and survey analysis, reciprocal easement agreements, utility and access easements, and license agreements. She also advises local government entities, including K-12 school districts, in the areas of procurement, vendor contracts, intergovernmental agreements, policy development, open records law, and compliance.

Emily Hart spent the first years of her legal career at a boutique law firm litigating real estate disputes, including as outside claims counsel for several large, national title insurance companies. She has a strong background in complex title and survey issues.

Next, while in-house with the City of Atlanta Law Department, Emily Hart helped oversee the city’s expansive real estate portfolio. She represented the city in all manner of real estate transactions, including the sale of Underground Atlanta and the negotiation of municipal office building leases, police precinct leases, and the lease of office space for the inaugural class of WEI, the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative business incubator program.

Outside of her regular work, Emily Hart has provided pro bono services on a range of issues, such as community housing leases, housing for victims of human trafficking, and immigration. She is a member of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Atlanta, CREW Network’s Government & Education Council, and a graduate of the CREW Atlanta Leadership Class of 2022. She serves on Parker Poe's Recruiting Committee.

Emily Hart earned her law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University.

Representative Experience

  • Regularly represents a national automotive dealer in the acquisition and disposition of automotive dealership facilities nationwide.
  • Advised a national retailer on the sale of an office headquarters building in Florida.
  • Counseled a national retailer on multiple commercial leases of warehouse space.
  • Negotiated the long-term lease of a historic school building to a philanthropic foundation for development of a community learning lab.
  • Negotiated the lease of a new office headquarters for a landscape business in Atlanta while negotiating early exit from its existing headquarters.
  • Negotiated leases and lease renewals for a shopping center owner in Tennessee.
  • Negotiated the lease of retail space for a med spa tenant.
  • Represented a manufacturer in the acquisition of undeveloped land as the site of a new manufacturing facility in Tennessee.
  • Advised a manufacturer in the acquisition of undeveloped land as the site of a new manufacturing facility in North Carolina.
  • Counseled a life sciences company on the acquisition of land for development of a bioscience facility.
  • Represented a new charter school in Georgia in the acquisition of land for the school's construction.
  • Negotiated intergovernmental agreements between counties and school districts for the use of government facilities as polling places.
  • Regularly negotiates land swaps between Georgia school districts and municipal and county governments.

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Honors & Awards

  • The Best Lawyers in America "Ones to Watch" in Real Estate Law, 2021-2025
  • Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2023-2025

Memberships

  • Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Atlanta, Leadership Class of 2022; Ongoing Member
  • Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network, Government & Education Council
  • Parker Poe Recruiting Committee