Mr Paul Landen > Baker Botts L.L.P. > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices

910 LOUISIANA STREET
HOUSTON
TEXAS 77002-4995
TEXAS
United States
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Mr Paul Landen

Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner
Career
For over 35 years, Paul Landen’s practice has covered a wide-range of transactional experience, ranging from commercial real estate to domestic and international joint ventures across a variety of industries, downstream energy, petrochemical and other industrial project development and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The breadth of his experience has helped Mr. Landen develop to be a seasoned, business-oriented, pragmatic commercial lawyer.
Mr. Landen’s practice currently focuses primarily on all aspects of commercial real estate, with deep experience in real estate joint ventures, development and financings.
Paul Landen became a partner with Baker Botts in 1991, relocating to the London office in 1998 and returning to the Houston office in 2007. His practice focuses on commercial real estate, domestic and international joint ventures, industrial projects, and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Landen’s clients include an internationally renowned real estate developer, other real estate development companies, a Turkish steel pipe manufacturer, petrochemical and other energy companies, and private equity funds. His wide-ranging transactional experience has helped Mr. Landen develop to be a seasoned, business-oriented, pragmatic commercial lawyer.
Memberships
State Bar of Texas
Education
J.D., University of Michigan Law School 1983
B.A., English and economics, University of Michigan 1980
with distinction
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
In addition to advising on all aspects of transactions, the real estate practice at Baker Botts L.L.P. regularly handles restructuring and workouts nationwide, with numerous recent mandates relating to office and mixed-use properties. The formation and representation of investment funds is another area of specialism, as is their wide-reaching experience that encompasses qualified opportunity zone projects, energy, industrial and infrastructure developments. Based in Houston, head of real estate and construction Connie Simmons Taylor possesses transaction and leasing experience across all asset classes, particularly on the developer side. Paul Landen, known for his joint venture and debt financing experience, is another key name in Houston, with Dallas-based Jeremy Gott also an active member of the team.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)