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2025 Women In Real Estate Awards

Atlanta & Southeast
By: Amy Wolff Sorter

Virginia (Jenny) Worthy

Company: 

Eversheds Sutherland

Led team that closed a $1 billion credit facility for a public pension fund

Involved with team handling origination work for an $800 million debt fund

Virginia (Jenny) Worthy is a commercial real estate partner in the Atlanta office of Eversheds Sutherland. Over the past decade, Worthy helped establish and grow the firm’s Real Estate practice group. She joined Eversheds Sutherland in September 2013 and was elected a U.S. partner in 2021.     

Her practice involves representing and advising commercial and investment banks, pension funds, real estate investment trusts, insurance companies, and borrowers in financing transactions. She assists lending clients with structuring loans utilizing diverse debt stacks.

Notable highlights include leading the team representing the student housing-focused Timberline Real Estate. She also led a team that closed a $1-billion credit facility for a major public pension fund and is a team member involved with handling mortgage loan origination work for a Fortune 500 insurance company’s $800-million debt fund.

Worthy is chair of Eversheds Sutherland’s Atlanta Women Partners Group, Partner Liaison for the Eversheds Sutherland Women Attorneys Group, lead organizer for the Executive Women’s Weekend and a member of the firm’s Counsel Review and Hiring Committees and Forestry and Climate Solutions team.

She is a Fellow and active participant in the American College of Mortgage Attorneys (ACMA), a member of the CRE Finance Council (CREFC) and one of the founding members of the Women in Timber professional organization.

Worthy has been recognized by GlobeSt (Woman of Influence) and Legal 500 United States (real estate finance).

These are just a few reasons Virginia Worthy is among the Atlanta & Southeast Connect CRE 2025 Women in Real Estate Award winners. Connect CRE’s Women in Real Estate Awards honor the achievements and inspirational stories of women who have reached respected leadership positions and taken on mentorship roles.

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About Amy Wolff Sorter

I love content. I love writing it, visualizing it, and manipulating it to fit into different formats. I have years of experience in working with content, both as creator and editor. The content I create and edit provides assistance with many goals, ranging from lead generation, to developing street cred through well-timed thought-leadership pieces. Content skills include, but aren't limited to, articles and blogs, e-mails, promotional collateral, infographics, e-books and white papers, website copy and more.
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