Carrie is an associate in the Business Transactions section of the Dallas office.

She has a broad based real estate practice and has experience representing purchasers and sellers in acquisitions and dispositions of improved and unimproved real estate (office, retail, industrial and hotel), developers in the creation of mixed-use condominiums and in the development of full-service and limited-service hotels, lenders and borrowers in the negotiation and preparation of loan documentation (including CMBS loans and mezzanine financing), and landlords and tenants in the leasing and management of retail, office and industrial properties.

Representative Experience

• Represents leading secondary mortgage lender in connection with its contributions to community development investment funds, which has included transacting involving $550 million in multifamily assets
• Represents owner/developer in connection with acquisition, financing and development of new full and limited service hotels
• Represented Fortune 500 (the largest lodging REIT and one of the largest owners of luxury and upper-scale hotels) in the $55 million disposition of a 550-room hotel and 20,000 square feet of meeting space in Dallas, Texas
• Represents a leading IT outsourcing company based in Dallas, Texas in connection with the negotiation of new leases and lease amendments for their national and international locations
• Represents a premiere company that specializes in assisted living facilities nationwide for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of memory impairment in connection with the acquisition, development and financing of new independent and assisted living facilities
• Negotiation of the formation of four joint ventures for the purpose of recapitalizing six senior housing facilities, and the related loan transactions having an aggregate sales price of approximately $62.5 million
• Represented the seller in the $147 million multi-state disposition of 24 senior living facilities
• Represented a national leader in consumer service, products and training in obtaining its retail and academy locations, including preparation and negotiation of lease and lease amendments for new, existing and relocation sites
• Represented a private real estate investment trust in the acquisition of five industrial properties valued at $25 million

• Represented Junior Box international retailer in connection with leasing national and international store locations
• Represented developer in creation of 255,000-square-foot residential condominium
• Represented developer in creation of 185,000-square-foot multiple mixed-use (retail and residential) condominium
• Represented the landlord in the first generation leasing of a 208,558-square-foot multi-tenant office building
• Represented the landlord in the leasing and management of 584,581-square-foot multi-building office complex

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, University of Southern California School of Law, Staff (1996-1997) and Senior Editor (1997-1998) of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 1998BA, Pepperdine University, 1994