Eric Teusink, the managing partner of Williams Teusink, is a real estate and business attorney whose practice encompasses both transactional and litigation matters.

He represents lenders, borrowers, purchasers, and sellers in commercial real estate transactions across a wide range of property types, including multifamily, office, and retail. His real estate litigation practice focuses primarily on disputes involving title, contracts, and real property.

Eric also serves as outside corporate counsel for numerous entrepreneurial companies across industries, including multifamily and retail ownership groups, community development financial institutions, and housing nonprofit organizations. His pro bono work largely focuses on representing legacy residents facing property title issues.

In addition to his work as a lawyer, Eric is a registered neutral who frequently serves as a mediator and appointed special master.

Eric is also regularly called upon to speak and provide commentary on a variety of real estate and business legal issues and has been interviewed by the Associated Press, WABE, Atlanta’s NPR affiliate, Atlanta’s NBC affiliate, and other media outlets.

Outside the office, Eric is heavily involved in his community, both professionally and personally. He has previously served as chairman of the board for the Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School, president of the Red Clay Democrats, chair of the UGA at Oxford Development Board, a member of the Georgia State University College of Law Alumni Board, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame Advisory Board, and an appointed member of the City of Atlanta Urban Design Commission.

Eric has been named a Georgia Super Lawyer since 2022 in the areas of Real Estate: Business, Business/Corporate, Business Litigation, Construction Litigation: Business, Land Use/Zoning, and Legislative and Governmental Affairs. Before that, he was recognized as a Rising Star from 2019 to 2021, an honor recognizing the top 2.5% of lawyers in the state. Additionally, he was named to the inaugural Georgia State University 40 Under 40 class in 2018. He was a member of the 2016 State Bar of Georgia Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy, the 2013 Urban Land Institute Center for Leadership Class, and the 2011 LEAD Atlanta Class.

Eric graduated cum laude from the Georgia State University College of Law. After graduating from the University of Georgia with degrees in political science and economics, and before attending law school, Eric worked for a housing nonprofit based in Metro Atlanta.

Along with his wife and two children, Eric resides in Atlanta’s Grant Park neighborhood. When he isn’t lawyering or being an unpaid soccer and theatre chauffeur, he enjoys running, skiing, thrifting for all things vintage, nerding out on craft beer, reading, supporting UGA athletics, and traveling with his family, not necessarily in that order.