Mark G. Pottorff

Mark G. Pottorff has more than 35 years of experience assisting clients in a variety of real estate matters, representing buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, lenders, and borrowers across all property types, including office, industrial, agricultural, and multi-family properties. He has particular experience in timberland transactions, having represented buyers and sellers in large timberland transactions nationwide and abroad.

Mark has spoken at numerous seminars and conferences on timberland law and investing, and he is the co-author of “Hunters, Trespassers, and Fires: Liability Concerns for Timberland Owners” published in The Natural Resources Law Manual 167 (Richard J. Fink ed., 1995). From 2007 through 2026, he has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®.

Mark received his B.A. degree from the University of Dayton. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the Emory University School of Law, where he attended as a Robert W. Woodruff Fellow and where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Emory Law Journal.

Mark's Practice

Representative Matters

• Acquisition of 107,000 acres in Virginia
• Acquisition of 90,000 acres in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York
• $1.39 billion acquisition of 1.1 million acres of timberlands located in Texas
• $650 million credit facility secured by timberlands in Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida
• Acquisition and subsequent sale of 900,000 fee and leasehold acres in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas
• Acquisition of 500,000 acres of fee lands in Nova Scotia, Canada
• Acquisition of 900,000 acres in Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee
• $80 million loan secured by timberlands in Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Washington, South Carolina, and North Carolina
• Acquisition of 629,000 fee acres in Maine and New Hampshire
• Sale of 600,000 acres of timber rights in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia
• Acquisition of 370,000 fee acres and 34,000 leasehold acres in Alabama
• Acquisition of 280,000 fee acres in Virginia
• Acquisition of 201,000 acres of fee and leasehold acres in Alabama and Mississippi
• $50 million loan secured by 68,000 acres of timberlands in Alabama
• Acquisition of 160,000 fee acres in California, Oregon, Mississippi, and North Carolina
• Acquisition of 280,000 fee acres and 30,000 leasehold acres in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Alabama, and Mississippi
• Acquisition of 225,000 fee acres in Oklahoma and Arkansas
• Acquisition of 440,000 fee acres in Maine
• Acquisition of 56,000 fee acres and 5,000 leasehold acres in Louisiana and Texas