Band 4
Provided by Tai C. Tran
Tai handles a wide variety of real estate acquisitions and dispositions, commercial real estate financing, and related transactions on behalf of borrowers, developers, lenders, and financial institutions nationwide.
Tai brings extensive experience in commercial real estate and finance transactions, including real estate acquisitions and sales, development and leasing, and commercial lending. He represents a diverse range of clients, such as investors, owners, developers, lenders, private equity firms, real estate funds, financial institutions, commercial landlords and tenants, and colleges and universities. Tai’s practice spans office, multifamily, industrial, retail, hotel, single-family lot development, and mixed-use projects across Texas and other states.
Tai has significant experience advising and counseling owners, developers, and investors in acquiring, developing, and selling land and improvements for multifamily, retail, commercial, industrial, and residential real estate projects, including condominiums, mixed-use developments, and student housing facilities. He also represents developers of master-planned communities in connection with single-family residential lot development and sales to homebuilders.
Tai represents national and state lending institutions with their respective acquisition, development, and construction financing activities in Texas and other states. His experience also covers a wide range of commercial lending and corporate finance transactions, including loan syndication, asset-based lending, subordinated debt, and mezzanine financing.
Tai represents numerous financial institutions, including federal savings banks, life insurance companies, and various state and national banking associations in workouts, restructures, and foreclosures concerning commercial real and personal property in Texas, California, Illinois, Utah, and other states. He has substantial experience negotiating forbearance agreements, resolving priority of lien issues, and examining lender liability claims on behalf of lenders as well as debtors. Tai also represents lenders and investors in connection with the acquisition, disposition, and financing of REO assets.
Tai regularly represents both landlords and tenants with respect to office, retail, and industrial projects in Texas and other states. In connection with workouts and foreclosures, he advises clients on a broad range of lease subordination and rental issues relating to foreclosure of liens.
Member, State Bar of Texas
Member, Austin Bar Association
Member, Austin Young Lawyers Association
Member, Real Estate Council of Austin Leadership Development Council (2003)
Executive committee and board of directors, Capital Area Tennis Association
Former member, board of directors, JDRF Austin
Former member, advisory board, KLRU-TV, Austin PBS Community
Former member, Boys & Girls Club Emerging Leaders Steering Committee
Provided by Chambers