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Founding Member and Attorney at Law
Sayer Nixon
Sayer founded Nixon Law PLLC to fill a need in the market for more affordable and responsive legal counsel with a specialty in handling large, complex transactions across the United States. Legal costs started to outpace inflation primarily due to the inefficiency, staffing and overheard of large law firms. Financial institutions, large companies, business owners and real estate investors voiced a desire for smaller legal bills as transactions grew more complicated and time consuming.
Sayer focuses his practice at Nixon Law PLLC on all things commercial real estate, asset-backed finance, corporate and business law, and commercial transactions.
Sayer has closed thousands of transactions in his career and touched practically every US state in the process. His transaction volume is over $7 Billion to date, ranging from small business matters to highly leveraged debt-on-debt financings between financial institutions.
Sayer represents lenders and borrowers in debt origination, including CMBS, CLO, bridge, construction, private and alternative money, credit facilities and similar loans held in various layers of the capital stack. He also handles workouts, loan modifications and extensions, and remedies actions. In addition, Sayer frequently assists commercial real estate investors and asset managers in the acquisition, disposition and servicing of assets under management.
Sayer also handles corporate and commercial transactions including entity formation, company agreements, fund formation, joint ventures, membership and partnership interest purchases and other shareholder equity dispositions and conveyances, business contracts and vendor management, construction agreements, franchise relationships and business and asset sales.
Sayer grew up near Nashville, TN and obtained his undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University, majoring in Economics (With Honors). Thereafter, he attended the University of Tennessee College of Law where he served on the Editorial Board of the Tennessee Law Review and graduated Magna Cum Laude. He started his legal career in the Real Estate Finance practice group of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s Charlotte office. Following the great recession of 2008, he met his future wife April and relocated to Raleigh, NC for a two-year, in-house legal stint at an international pharmaceutical / biotech company. Thereafter, he reconnected with former colleagues from Cadwalader and moved back to Charlotte to join Winstead PC’s new office, where he progressed from Associate to Equity Shareholder and spent 11 years handling large commercial real estate finance transactions for clients across the US.
Sayer and his wife April have four children: Beckett (11), Amelia (9), Collier (7) and Wells (baby). They live in the Charlotte, NC suburb of Matthews and are members at Carmel Baptist Church. In addition to being involved at church, they are proud supporters of Carmel Christian School and Covenant Day School, where their children attend. The boys play local sports including baseball and football and Amelia is a competitive dancer and artist in training. In their free time the Nixons like to swim, go to the beach, play card and board games, fish, watch the Tennessee Vols play, listen to country and Christian music and eat April’s delicious cooking.
Credentials
University of Tennessee College of Law
J.D., 2007
Magna Cum Laude
Editorial Board, Tennessee Law Review
Wake Forest University
B.A. Economics, 2004
With Honors
North Carolina State Bar
Mecklenburg County Bar, 26th Judicial District
Involvement
Mortgage Bankers Association
Commercial Real Estate Finance Council
Urban Land Institute
Association of Corporate Counsel
Carmel Baptist Church
Carmel JOY Special Needs Ministry Volunteer
Carmel Christian School
Covenant Day School
Matthews Athletic & Recreation Association (MARA)