Jeffrey A Calk

Practice Areas

Jeff Calk is a real estate attorney in Holland & Knight's Nashville office. Mr. Calk counsels hospital systems and healthcare clients helping them comply with healthcare regulations involved in complex real estate transactions. His focus is on commercial and healthcare real estate, including acute care and behavioral hospitals, senior housing facilities, medical office buildings and physician practices.

Compliance with healthcare laws and regulations is integral to real estate transactions between healthcare providers and referral sources. In the face of these complexities, Mr. Calk works to make matters as simple as possible for the client, especially when navigating Stark Law and Anti-Kickback statute issues. An effective communicator, Mr. Calk is solutions-oriented when advising clients on conducting their business.

Similarly, investors in healthcare real estate (whether medical office developers, healthcare REITS or physicians) seek Mr. Calk's counsel in negotiating transactions with hospital systems or other healthcare real estate investors.

On a day-to-day basis, Mr. Calk handles a variety of matters, including:

acquisition and development of medical office buildings

transactions to monetize healthcare real estate assets

needs of REITs in acquisitions, development projects, divestitures, financing transactions and leasing transactions involving a wide range of healthcare facilities

Evidencing his depth of experience and knowledge in the healthcare real estate sector, Mr. Calk serves as national leasing counsel for a publicly traded healthcare Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).

Professional Memberships

Nashville Bar Association

Tennessee Bar Association

Georgia Bar Association

American Bar Association

American Health Law Association

American Bar Association, Health Law Section

Council, Budget Officer, 2024-2027

Council, Budget Officer Elect, 2023-2024

Council, Budget Officer and Finance Committee Chair, 2024-2025

Council, Member-at-Large, 2021-2023

Chair, Sponsorship Committee, 2018-2020

Vice Chair, Sponsorship Committee, 2017-2018, 2024-2025

Vice Chair, Marketing and Technology Committee, 2023-2025

Vice Chair, Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law Conference Planning Committee, 2018-2020

Vice Chair, Leadership Meeting Planning, 2024-2025

Nashville Young Leaders Council, Alumnus