Real estate lawyer Vanessa Morris has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a partner, arriving from Morris Manning & Martin. Morris handles multifamily real estate projects, representing developers, lenders and servicers on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae financing, low-income housing tax credits, tax-exempt bonds and other matters.

Morris “brings unique experience in agency lending (Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae financing) and will enhance the services we provide to our clients,” said the co-leader of Nelson Mullins’ real estate capital markets group, Brad Denson, who is also in Atlanta, in a statement. Her addition gives Nelson Mullins’ real estate investment, finance and restructuring team 40 members.