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Tracy S. Plott

Senior Counsel
Atlanta

Tracy Plott is a member of the firm’s national Real Estate Department with over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate and financing transactions. She focuses her practice on all aspects of transactional real estate work such as matters involving the acquisition, disposition, and development of various properties, including retail, industrial, office, multifamily, hotel, and condominium spaces. She also handles asset-based financing, restructuring debt obligations, bond financing, joint ventures, loan syndication, limited partnerships, permanent and mezzanine-lending, construction, and leasing.

Prior to rejoining Ballard Spahr, Tracy was Partner at an Am Law 100 firm, where she represented clients on a wide range of real estate finance matters such as student housing projects, condominiums, hotels, mixed-use developments, senior living properties, and office buildings.

Representative Experience 

Representative Matters

  • Representation of lenders and borrowers in connection with numerous student housing projects in Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Michigan, and Georgia
  • Representation of lenders and borrowers in connection with hotel and condominium/hotel properties, including new construction and renovations, and including acquisition and refinancing
  • Representation of senior living owners/operators in connection with acquisition, disposition, loans, leasing, and management matters

Professional Highlights

Recognition & Accomplishments

The Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance Law, 2021-2026; Real Estate Law, 2021-2026

Attorney Intel, “Top 25 Real Estate and Hospitality Attorneys,” 2025

GaBiz Magazine, Top Lawyers List, 2025

Georgia Trend Magazine, Legal Elite, Real Estate/Construction Law, 2016

Thomson Reuters, “Georgia Super Lawyer,” Real Estate Law, 2008-2013

Board Memberships & Community Service

Atlanta Community Food Bank, Advisory Board, 2019-2026

Law360, Georgia Editorial Board, 2023

Credentials 

Education

University of Georgia School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1991)

Davidson College (B.A. 1987)

Admissions

Georgia