Susan G Talley

Practice Areas

Finance and Lending

Real Estate

Career

Susan Talley practices in all aspects of real estate development, financing, leasing, purchase and sale. She has been involved in many of the major commercial real estate development and public finance projects in Louisiana, including sports arena lease negotiations, multi-billion dollar chemical facilities, luxury hotels and mixed use developments.

Susan currently serves as co-chair of the firm's Real Estate Practice Group and as chair of the firm's Financing and Lending Practice Group. She has served in many leadership roles in professional and industry organizations and is a frequent speaker and writer on real estate and finance topics.

Professional Memberships

Vice President, American College of Real Estate Lawyers.

Past Chair, American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law.

Past Chair, Association for Real Property and Infrastructure.

Past President and current Member, Louisiana State Law Institute Council.

Founding Member, New Orleans CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women).

Fellow, American College of Mortgage Attorneys.

Member and Former Chair, Bank Counsel Committee of the Louisiana Bankers Association.

Board Member, New Orleans Business Alliance.

Member, International Council of Shopping Centers.

Board Member and Co-Chair, Artistic Leadership Committee, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

Vice Chancellor of Real Estate, Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana.

Member, International Women's Forum.

Past Advisory Board Chair, WWNO (NPR affiliate radio station).

Publications

Profiled in "Spotlight on Successful Women in the Law," New Orleans Bar Association, September 15, 2021.

Author, "The Effects of the Petrochemical Projects Boom in the US Gulf Coast on Real Estate Practices," Who's Who Legal: Real Estate, 2017.

Author, "Negotiating Carve-Out Guaranties for the Borrower," American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law and American College of Real Estate Lawyers eCLE, May 2016.

Co-Author, "Roundtable," Who's Who Legal: Real Estate, September 2015 and September 2014.

Co-Author, "Assignments of Retail Leases in Bankruptcy," Chapter 20, and "Drafting the Lease to Maintain Landlord Control in a Shopping Center Tenant's Bankruptcy," Chapter 25 of The Sublease and Assignment Deskbook: Legal Issues, Forms, and Drafting Techniques for Commercial Lease Transfers, Second Edition, 2013.

Author, "Selected Issues in Construction Lending," ALI CLE Commercial Real Estate Financing Strategies for Changing Markets and Uncertain Times, 2010.

Co-Author, "Equity and Debt Financing Techniques for the Mixed Use Project," ALI CLE Commercial Real Estate Financing Strategies for Changing Markets and Uncertain Times, 2010.