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Adam C. Holmes
Associate
Overview
Adam is a transactional attorney in the Spencer Fane Real Estate practice group. Adam focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions, real estate finance, tax-incentivized transactions, including renewable energy tax credits, low-income housing tax credits, historic tax credits, construction and commercial real estate development, commercial lending, and a variety of other general business transactions.
Adam earned his Bachelor of Arts from Missouri State University in 2004, summa cum laude, majoring in philosophy and history, with an economics minor. In 2016, Adam completed the CORe Program at Harvard Business School, with honors, and an emphasis on business analytics, economics and financial accounting.
In 2019, Adam received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was awarded a Dean’s Scholar Prize in Hedge and Private Equity Funds, served as a senior editor for the Harvard Business Law Review, and was a student attorney in Harvard’s Federal Tax Clinic, where he represented taxpayers before the IRS and in U.S. Tax Court. Before joining Spencer Fane, Adam was a finance associate at an international law firm.
Credentials
Education
- Harvard Law School, 2019 (J.D.)
- Missouri State University, 2004 (B.A.), summa cum laude
- Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, 2024-2025
- Springfield Board of Adjustment, Board Member, 2024-2029
- State Bar of Texas, Business Law Section
- Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association
- “Corporate Transparency Act: Post-Implementation Lessons & Practice Implications,” Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association CLE, June 2024
- “Opportunity Zone Legislation May Spur Development,” Springfield Business Journal, July 2022