Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental

Jeff Smith is a partner in the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group in the firm's Houston office.

Areas of Practice

Jeff concentrates his practice on complex commercial real estate transactions related to the acquisition, development, and disposition of industrial, multi-family, build-to-rent, office, retail, and hospitality properties. He represents a wide array of developers, private equity funds, net lease providers, investors, and large corporations in complex real estate transactions. His extensive real estate experience includes an emphasis on the representation of net lease providers, investors in office properties, landlords and tenants in office, industrial and retail leasing, acquisitions and dispositions of commercial properties, including industrial facilities, apartment complexes, and large ranches for commercial operations, and the representation of developers and equity investors in joint ventures.

He has also represented purchasers of distressed loan portfolios, receivers in commercial real estate matters and borrowers and lenders in secured commercial lending transactions ranging from construction to permanent financing workouts, foreclosures, troubled asset disposition, and note purchase and sale transactions.