Mark’s practice focuses on commercial real estate transactions across a variety of industries, including in the retail, office and healthcare sectors. His experience includes (i) the representation of healthcare systems in connection with acquisitions and dispositions, ground leases, space leases and other real estate related work, (ii) the representation of investors, landowners, developers, retailers, public companies and private equity funds in connection with the acquisition, development, ownership, management and disposition of real estate facilities, including retail, wholesale, office, mixed-use, multi-family, single-family and industrial properties, (iii) the representation of borrowers, investors, private equity funds and financial institutions in connection with real estate related financing transactions, including construction, interim and permanent financings, and equity investments through partnerships and other entity structures, and (iv) the acquisition and disposition of single-family rental property portfolios, including build to rent projects.

Mark has been recognized for several years by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in the real estate practice area.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Southern Methodist University, 1989

BA, University of Arkansas, 1985

• Represented national and regional development companies in the area of retail and mixed-use development, leasing, acquisition and disposition, including life-style, big box and open-air mall projects.
• Represented a world leader in the mobile device industry on a national basis in connection with the acquisition and development of corporate campus headquarters, office space, manufacturing and research and development facilities.
• Represented a national grocery chain in connection with all aspects of real estate transactional work, including site acquisition and leasing, development and construction, and site disposition.
• Represented a number of retail operators in connection with national roll-out programs, including numerous leases, site acquisitions and sale/leaseback transactions.
• Represented corporate borrowers and financial institutions in both debt and equity financing transactions.
• Represented developers in connection with residential lot development projects, including acquisitions, financings and dispositions.
• Represented private investment funds in connection with the acquisition, financing and disposition of office portfolio projects.
• Represented private investment fund in connection with the lease-up of an approximately 800,000 square foot office complex.
• Represented both landlords and tenants in connection with leases for numerous data center locations.

• Member, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section, Texas State Bar Association
• Member, Dallas Bar Association

• Recognized as a Leader in the Field, Real Estate, Texas, Chambers USA, 2014-2017
• Listed for Real Estate, Legal 500 United States, 2017

• Hunton Retail Law Resource: Analysis and Insight in Retail Law

  By Mark Vowell |November 2020