Brett J. Travers

Brett J. Travers is a business lawyer and shareholder with Hall Render who advises owners, operators, developers, investors, lenders, and closely held businesses on commercial real estate and strategic transactions. Travers has particular depth in the senior living sector, where his work spans acquisitions, dispositions, financing, joint ventures, development, leases, management agreements, and ownership restructurings. He combines legal counsel with firsthand executive experience from serving in leadership at a senior living organization.

Travers earned a B.S.B.A., magna cum laude, from Saint Louis University in 2008 and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2011. His business and legal education supports a practice that requires attention to finance, contract structure, ownership arrangements, regulatory considerations, and real estate risk. That foundation complements his work on complex transactions where legal decisions must align with investment performance and long-term operating objectives.

Travers previously served as general counsel and a member of the executive leadership team of a senior living developer, builder, owner, and operator. In private practice, he represents clients in acquisitions and dispositions, construction and acquisition financing, refinancings, joint ventures, and business combinations. He also handles title, survey, zoning, leasing, environmental, financing, and transfer issues that can affect valuation or delay closings in real estate and corporate transactions.

Brett J. Travers is admitted in Missouri and Illinois and is active in organizations including the American Health Law Association and American Seniors Housing Association. His combination of legal and executive experience gives him a practical perspective on senior living investments, commercial real estate, and business transactions. Clients can draw on counsel that considers not only documents and legal risk, but how transaction terms affect financing, operations, development plans, and long-term asset performance.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C
• Member, The Missouri Bar
• Member, Illinois State Bar Association
• Member, American Health Law Association
• Member, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
• Member, American Seniors Housing Association

Licensed State

• Missouri
• Illinois

Education

• Saint Louis University School of Law
  J.D., Magna
• Saint Louis University
  Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) (Magna Cum Laude)

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