The Virginia law firm, Gentry Locke is pleased to announce the arrival of Jean D. Mumm as a partner in the firm’s commercial real estate practice.

With more than 30 years of experience, Mumm brings a deep understanding of commercial real estate, business, and finance transactions.

“Jean is going to be a tremendous asset to the firm and our clients,” said Gentry Locke Managing Partner Monica T. Monday. “She has worked in the law firm setting and as in-house counsel, which provides her with the ability to really see challenges from the client-side.”

Most recently, Mumm served as corporate counsel for a leading global real estate investment and management firm, where she managed complex corporate real estate transactions across the U.S. In this role, she prepared documents related to closings, financings, acquisitions, and dispositions.

She has spent much of her legal career in private practice, assisting clients with financings, acquisitions, and dispositions, loan workouts, and forbearance, mergers and acquisitions, defeasance, land use, and development, as well as contract and leasing matters.

Mumm earned her J.D. from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law where she served on the University of Richmond Law Review and the University of Richmond Moot Court Board. She earned her B.A., cum laude, in mathematics and economics from Bucknell University.

About Gentry Locke

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