Baker Botts L.L.P.

Real Estate

Partner

Section Chair - Real Estate & Construction (Firmwide)

Connie Simmons Taylor handles commercial real estate transactions, primarily representing developers. She advises clients in a wide variety of matters relating to office, industrial and retail leasing (representing mostly landlords, but with some tenant representation); sale, acquisition and development of property; and real estate financing matters (construction and permanent). She is the Co-Chair of the Real Estate and Construction Practice Group.

State Bar of Texas; Fellow – American College of Real Estate Lawyers; ICSC – US Law Conference Planning Committee; Commercial Real Estate Women – Houston; Houston Real Estate Lawyers’ Council.

JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Tulane Law School, 1994; BA, English, magna cum laude, University of Houston, 1991. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2006-2023; Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer (Thompson Reuters), 2018-2023.

Publications

Revisiting Traditional Lease Clauses, State Bar of Texas Advanced Real Estate Drafting Course, March 2021

A Not So Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Recent Case Law Affecting Shopping Centers, ICSC US Law Conference, October 2020

Retail Leases: Essential Aspects and Peculiarities, Bernard O. Dow Leasing Institute, November 2018;