Partner, Dallas

Practice Description

M. Lawrence (Larry) Hicks, Jr. is a Real Estate and Banking Partner and also serves as the Firm's Administrative Partner. His practice encompasses workout agreements and foreclosures and multi-state real estate lending transactions, purchases and sales, ground leases, and all aspects of shopping center development, ownership and financing.

His expertise includes conveyances, leases, reciprocal easements, operating agreements, management agreements, loan documents, and reviewing title reports, surveys, zoning ordinances, and other regulations affecting the intended use of real estate.

Representations

• Representation of lenders in literally hundreds of workouts, foreclosures, and bankruptcies

• Representation of lenders in lifting bankruptcy stays and obtaining cash collateral (rents)

• Representation of a reorganized debtor in the largest real estate bankruptcy in history, including handling various CMBS and REMIC issues

• Representation of lenders in defending against permanent restraining orders against and injunctions of foreclosures

• Representation of a lender in connection with many construction loans for Texas buildings, including a $230 million office building construction loan for a downtown office building

Distinctions/Honors

• Best Lawyers In America^® by Woodward/White Inc. (Banking and Real Estate Law); 1995-present

• Chambers USA by Chambers & Partners (Real Estate Law); 2006-present

Press Releases/In the News

• T&K Attorneys Elected Officers of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys; October 05, 2009
  

• T&K Earns LEED Certification for New Dallas Offices; June 25, 2009
  

Presentations/Publications

• "Retail Financing in 2009-2010 - What Is That? A Look at Current Trends In Shopping Center Financing, with a Look Back to the Past for Figuring out the Future," 2009 U.S. Shopping Center Law Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, October 21-24, 2009
  

• "The Opinions Program: Application of "Cost-Benefit Analysis Theories" to Opinions Within the ACMA context," American College of Mortgage Attorneys 36th Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 1-3, 2009
  

Activities

• President-Elect, American College of Mortgage Attorneys

• Member, The College of the State Bar of Texas