K. Blair Bennett

Biography

Blair Bennett grew up in a family where real estate, strategy, and business were topics of conversation at the dinner table. Watching her entrepreneurial family grow their real estate business, Blair knew that she wanted to follow in their footsteps, by becoming a real estate lawyer. In her practice, she helps clients buy, sell, lease, finance, and improve commercial real estate holdings, including mixed-use, unimproved land, commercial properties, and multi-family housing. Blair, known as an honest straight shooter, is the attorney you want on board when something needs to be done both quickly and accurately. Clients benefit from Blair’s background on the business side of real estate and depend on her to advise them on decisions that are right for the short-term and provides them with a long-term strategic advantage.

Representative Experience

  • Represented seller in the $146,550,000 divestiture of four apartment complexes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
  • Represented developer in private offering, property purchase and development loan
  • Outside general counsel for a publicly-traded company that is involved in purchases, sales, loans, public financing, and leasing
  • Represented seller in the sale of a 15 story, 429,477 square foot office building worth more than $105 million
  • Provided legal representation to a seller in the divestiture of three apartment complexes in Dallas worth more than $87 million
  • Represented borrowers and lenders in multiple states for commercial mortgage loans, development and constructions loans, and mezzanine financing
  • Represented seller in an international transaction involving the stock purchase of a real estate company
  • Represented senior lender in $85 million downtown Dallas condominium development project involving PACE financing
  • Represented developer/borrower in acquisition of property in Hays County, Texas and construction of apartment complex with both traditional financing and venture capital financing in a total amount equal to approximately $50 million
  • Represented land owner in $70 million solar farm lease for approximately 3,000 acres in Arkansas
  • Represented borrower in an $85 million loan from a NY lender secured by an office building located in Texas with active tenants
  • Represented buyer in contract negotiations for 30,000 acre ranch
  • Often involved in substantial residential subdivision projects in various Texas cities and extraterritorial jurisdictions in a variety of capacities, including representing developers, lenders, contractors, or borrowers

Licensed In

  • Arkansas
  • Texas

Education

  • J.D. University of Arkansas School of Law
  • LL.M Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
  • B.S. University of Arkansas

Memberships

  • Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
  • Dallas Women Lawyers Association
  • Junior League of Dallas Centennial Class
  • Dallas Bar Association, Real Estate and Tax Law Sections
  • Arkansas Bar Association, Real Property and Young Lawyers Sections

Achievements

  • The Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch – Real Estate Law (2024)

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