
Overview
Jason is a partner in the firm’s real estate practice group. Jason is highly regarded as a deal maker who can execute complex transactions in an efficient and effective manner, with an acute focus on the issues that truly affect his clients’ interests. Jason’s practice focuses on commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, development and sale of a broad range of real estate asset classes, including office and retail buildings, multifamily properties, hotels and resorts, SFR portfolios, industrial projects and data centers. He routinely negotiates joint venture agreements on behalf of institutional and non-institutional operators and investors and additionally represents operators and capital partners in a wide range of real estate financing transactions, including senior mortgage and mezzanine acquisition and construction financings, CMBS loans and preferred equity investments. Additionally, working with clients across the United States, Jason assists hotel owners and operators on the negotiation of management and license agreements.
Experience
- Represented data center developer clients in single-asset construction and permanent hyperscale data center financings exceeding $2 billion.
- Represented data center developer clients with acquisition and development matters for hyperscale data center projects located across the United States, including Texas, Virginia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Colorado.
- Represented developer client in connection with site development matters and the sale of property located in Northeast Harris County to a Fortune 100 biomedical company for the development of a $6.5 billion active pharmaceutical ingredient facility.
- Represented an institutional owner of hospitality assets in the disposition of a portfolio of 40 limited service hotels located primarily in the Mountain West.
- Represented owner/operator in the $340 million sale of a full-service hotel and resort located in San Antonio, Texas.
- Represented a private equity client in connection with the acquisition of a portfolio of 300+ single family homes for rent located in various states across the Midwest.
- Represented international hotel developers and operators in the acquisition, financing and disposition of hospitality assets across the United States and formation of joint ventures with equity partners in connection with same.
- Represented international hotel conglomerate in connection with the negotiation of 50+ hotel management agreements.
- Represented an institutional investor in a $93 million building and term loan for the acquisition and development of a mixed-use development located in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Represented the Clark County Stadium Authority in the negotiation of a stadium lease and development agreement and other documentation for The Oakland Raiders’ $1.8 billion stadium project in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Represented various clients in connection with troubled assets in various classes requiring workouts, restructuring and recapitalization.
Affiliations
Professional
- Houston Bar Association, Real Estate Section
- Houston Young Lawyers Association
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Education
JD, South Texas College of Law, magna cum laude, South Texas Law Review, Order of the Scribes, 2013
BA, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Admissions
Texas