ATLANTA-A team of six lawyers from Epstein Becker & Green PC has joined DLA Piper’s Real Estate practice. Led by M. Maxine Hicks, the group includes J. Lindsay Stradley Jr., Constance P. Haywood, Daniel H. Sherman IV, Louis M. Oliverio, and Ceasar C. Mitchell.

Hicks’ team focuses on handling mixed-used developments, public-private partnerships and infrastructure, health care real estate, recreational development, commercial lending and finance, and adaptive re-use, urban infill and brownfield redevelopment.

“Maxine is a highly-recognized real estate authority who brings a team of well-regarded lawyers to DLA Piper with significant experience handling a variety of sophisticated and high-profile real estate projects throughout the Southeast and around the country,” says Jay Epstien, chair of DLA Piper's US Real Estate practice. “Their in-depth experience in mixed use/transit oriented developments and health care real estate projects broadens the spectrum of services that DLA Piper’s top-ranked Real Estate practice can provide to our clients internationally.”

Hicks was a member of the board of directors for Epstein Becker & Green, chair of its National Real Estate Practice and managing shareholder of the Atlanta office. Epstein Becker & Green could not immediately be reached for comment on the departure.