Powell G. Ogletree Jr.

Gee also negotiates and closes real estate and financing transactions including the development of industrial facilities, hotels, shopping centers, and other commercial properties and transactions involving economic development financial incentives, as well as assisting with due diligence arising from these transactions. He also advises on tenant leases and lease disputes and writes opinions in connection with loans. Gee advises on title insurance and is a title insurance agent on behalf of several national title insurance companies. 

Gee is a leader of the firm’s forestry practice.

Professional Associations and Public Service

• He is active in the American Bar Association, having served on the Council of the Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, and having served two terms as Chair of the Forest Resources Committee that included the development of a forestry educational tool for classroom teaching.
  
  
• He is general counsel for the Mississippi Forestry Association and the Mississippi Manufactured Housing Association. He is also a former adjunct professor at Mississippi College School of Law, whose course teachings included Real Estate Finance and Development and Real Estate Transactions.
  
  
• Gee serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) for the State of Mississippi. In 2018, he was appointed by former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant to serve a nine year term.