Christopher Nalls, Esq.
Chris Nalls is the founding attorney of Nalls Davis. Chris has a multifaceted practice that focuses on business law, commercial real estate, and economic development.
Chris represents business owners, developers, lenders, and public entities in transactional and regulatory matters. Chris has provided counsel on transactions valued at more than $500 million in Ohio and across the United States. His representative matters include real estate projects, cooperative developments, secured financings, asset transfers, private equity placements, zoning and permitting proceedings, commercial disputes, and corporate governance issues.
In the past, Chris was an associate at large corporate law firms in Ohio and Washington D.C. Additionally, he clerked for two years for the Honorable Michael J. Cianci, Jr., and the Honorable Karen V. Johnson with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Administrative Law Judges and Dispute Resolution.
Chris resides in Dayton with his wife (Victoria Nalls) and his daughter (Victoria Nalls II).
Awards & Recognition
Selected Forty Under 40 in Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Business Journal, 2022
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Dayton Class of 2019
Selected Top 40 under 40 in Washington, DC, The National Black Lawyers, 2017
Foundation of the Energy Law Journal: Board of Directors, 2017 – 2019 term
Presentations & Published Works
Sign Your First Commercial Lease, free course for business owners with Launch Dayton (2023).
Intro to Business Law, free course for entrepreneurs and small business owners with Launch Dayton (2023).
Dayton Business Journal, Focus on Law, “Ohio’s Changing LLC Laws Have Benefits for Investors.” (January 25, 2022)
Launch Dayton Early Risers Academy, Legal Strategy and Compliance Planning for Small Businesses (2020 - 2022)
Corporate Counsel Summit, Panel Moderator, “Implicit Bias Interruption” (2019)
Montgomery County Township Association, Basics of PACE Financing (2018)
Weekly contributing author to the Washington Energy Report (2015 – 2017)
FERC Practice and Administrative Law Judges Committee Report, Energy Law Journal, Volume 34, No. 2 (2013) (coauthor)
EPA Regulation of the Utility Sector, American Association of Blacks in Energy White Paper (2012)
Areas of Practice
Real Estate and Fair Housing Law
Bar Admissions
Admitted, State of Ohio
Education
Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.), 2012
University of Dayton (B.S. Political Science and Government), 2007
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