Kristen Rigsby Smith

About Kristen

Kristen Smith is a principal with the Van Winkle Law Firm. Her primary areas of practice include creditor’s rights, commercial lending, and commercial real estate transactions. She maintains a statewide creditor’s rights practice which focuses on representing and counseling financial institutions and investors in a broad range of transactions, including, foreclosures, collections, title reformations, title issues, loan workouts, modifications, fraudulent transfers, partitions, bankruptcy, lender liability, and general civil litigation matters. In addition, she represents taxing authorities in a variety of matters, including collections and foreclosures. Kristen’s commercial lending and commercial real estate practice includes the representation of borrowers and lenders in loan transactions of all sizes. She is often the lender’s counsel and provides services which include preparing loan documents, reviewing title work, and ensuring that the lender is protected in all aspects of a closing. She represents borrowers and lenders in different types of commercial real estate transactions for retail spaces, new construction, vacant land, SBA loans, multi-family developments, hotels, and leases.

Licensed States

Education

Colleagues at The Van Winkle Law Firm

Robert B. Long, Jr.

Larry S. McDevitt

Senior Principal and Past President

Allan R. Tarleton

Of Counsel

Stephen J. Grabenstein

Larry C. Harris, Jr.

Of Counsel

Michael M. Thompson

Principal