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Ashley H. Story

Partner

Managing Partner - Raleigh Office
Practice Group Leader

Raleigh
Business Phone: 919.835.4103
Business Fax: 919.829.8700

ashley.story@troutmansanders.com

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Ashley is the Managing Partner of the Raleigh office of Troutman Sanders. His practice focuses on the development, construction, permitting, acquisition and sale of retail, industrial and office property. Ashley also serves as the practice group leader of the firm’s Retail Properties Practice Group. The group includes over thirty attorneys in New York, Richmond, Virginia Beach, Atlanta and Raleigh.

Representative Experience
Represented purchaser in acquisition and development of multiple shopping centers totaling $250,000,000

Counsel to national retailer in the acquisition and development of over eighty new locations and expansions in North Carolina and the Southeast

Represented developer in the acquisition and development of marinas in the Southeast

Counsel for international company in its acquisition of port facility

Represented multiple large real estate developers in successful non-judicial workout and restructuring of loan facilities collectively totaling $900,000,000

Secured special and conditional use permits for real estate projects in more than twenty counties and municipalities in North Carolina

Debtor’s counsel for successful Chapter 11 reorganizations including a regional shopping mall in Virginia, multi-state healthcare provider in Southeast, apartment complexes in North Carolina and the District of Columbia, regional restaurant chain and a combined use development on the Outer Banks of North Carolina totaling over 20,000 acres

Lender’s counsel for mezzanine finance provider in Chapter 11 filings for automotive parts distributor and discount department store chain

Other Distinctions
Selected as a Super Lawyer in Real Estate Transactions in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions of North Carolina Super Lawyers, published by Law & Politics and Charlotte Magazine

Named to the Legal Elite by Business North Carolina Magazine

Work Experience
Managing Partner of the firm’s Raleigh office.

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Education

  • London School of Economics and Political Science, LL.M., 2000
  • Emory University, LL.M., with Honors, 1985
  • Campbell University, J.D., Cum Laude, 1982
  • Wake Forest University, B.A., 1978


Bar Admissions

  • North Carolina


Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. Tax Court
  • U.S. Claims Court


Memberships

  • Wake County Bar Association
  • North Carolina Bar Association, Real Property and Bankruptcy Sections
  • American Bar Association
  • American Bankruptcy Institute, Real Estate Committee
  • International Council of Shopping Centers
  • American Friends of the London School of Economics
  • Certified Specialist in Business Bankruptcy by North Carolina State Bar