Reese Dollins
Reese Dollins - a founding partner of Venture Law Partners, PLLC - is a seasoned corporate, commercial finance and real estate attorney with extensive experience advising various businesses, startups, individuals and financial institutions on complex legal matters. With a strategic approach and a deep understanding of substantive law, Reese regularly helps clients navigate a range of transactional ventures, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and placement of private securities, fund structuring, real estate acquisitions and financing, debt restructuring and asset based lending transactions.
Reese’s expertise has earned him recognition from his peers as one to watch in the legal field, being honored by Best Lawyers – Ones to Watch for the years 2024 and 2025.
- University of Arkansas School of Law Juris Doctor, magna cum laude
- Judge John E. Miller Scholar
- Arkansas Law Review, Note and Comment Editor
- University of Central Arkansas
- Bachelor of Business Administration, cum laude
- Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
- Sigma Tau Gamma Recruitment Chair
- Business Transactions
- Commercial Finance
- Corporate Law and Governance
- Startup and Entrepreneurial Services
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Securities
- Venture Capital
- Real Estate and Real Estate Finance
- Financial Institutions and Banking
- Estate Planning
- Best Lawyers - Ones to Watch (2024 and 2025)
- NWA Technology Summit - Presented “Startups, Scaleups and the Law”
- Fuel Accelerator - Guest Lecturer and Mentor
- ARise Arkansas - Subject Matter Expert “SME” with Respect to Corporate Law
- Conductor - Small Business Mentor and Volunteer
- Leadership Fayetteville - Graduate of the Leadership Fayetteville Program
- Counsel to Caisson Capital Partners in connection with structuring of real estate syndication offering and acquisition of 184-unit apartment complex in Little Rock, Arkansas, for $20.25 million.
- Counsel to Connected Capital Fund I, LP in connection with the structuring of $30 million venture capital fund.
- Counsel to venture capital fund and private investors in connection with multiple private offerings for investment and acquisition of AI and FinTech companies.
- Counsel to financial advisory firm in connection with sale of substantially all of its assets to Delaware based wealth advisory group.
- Counsel to privately held aviation maintenance company in connection with $15 million acquisition of 38,000 square foot aviation hangar.
- Counsel to privately held healthcare company in connection with structuring and offering of series seed and bridge round financing.
- Counsel to privately held retail apparel company in connection with debt restructuring and issuance of $37.5 million senior credit facility.
- Counsel to community bank in connection with $70 million real estate construction lending transaction.
- Counsel to Big River Roller, LLC in connection with its corporate restructuring and sale of equity and membership interest to American Roller Company.
- Counsel to Prime NWA Investments, LLC in connection with eight figure securities offering and development of $46 million medical facility and campus.
- Counsel to Watercolors of Centerton, LLC in its sale of a 232 unit multifamily apartment complex for $45.16 million.
- counsel to BlueInGreen, LLC in its acquisition by Chart Industries, Inc.
- Counsel to Petromark, Inc. in connection with its sale to Offen Petroleum
- Counsel to community bank in connection with $13.5 million hotel acquisition lending transaction.
