Jeff Smith > Winston & Strawn LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Winston & Strawn LLP Offices
1111 LOUISIANA, 25TH FLOOR
HOUSTON, TX 77002-5242
TEXAS
United States
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Jeff Smith
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/smith-jeffrey-m.html
Jeff Smith represents a wide array of developers, private equity funds, investors, and large corporations in complex real estate transactions. His extensive real estate experience includes an emphasis on the representation of 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 equity investors in joint ventures. He has also represented receivers in commercial real estate matters and lenders in secured commercial lending transactions ranging from construction to permanent financing workouts, foreclosures, troubled asset disposition and note purchase and sale transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
Winston & Strawn LLP’s ‘very versatile’ real estate team regularly supports REITs, funds, private equity firms, and developers on all aspects of transactions, ventures, debt financing, and leasing of properties. In addition to retail and industrials, the team has seen considerable workload in self-storage, built-to-rent properties, together with single and multi-family residentials. Global chair Andrew White advises a mix of private equity funds, REITs, institutional investors, and developers from the firm’s office in Chicago. The practice is also known for its sizeable presence in Texas, with real estate and corporate expert Billie Ellis leading the team in Dallas, and Jeff Smith and Doug Yeager, a ‘go-to’ transaction attorney, leading the Houston practice. In the New York office, William Lang takes the lead on acquisitions, dispositions, and lease transactions for landlords and tenants.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Industry focus > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Transport > Shipping: finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- International trade > CFIUS
- Government > Government contracts
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions