L. Prentiss Cutshaw
Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201
I like the tangible nature of real estate, as opposed to businesses that merge in and out of existence. I like to be able to drive down the road and see a building that I’ve helped acquire, helped lease and then sold. Prentiss Cutshaw represents a broad range of real estate clients, including private equity funds, real estate investment groups and commercial owners in all stages of the real estate lifecycle, from acquisition and development to management, leasing, finance and ultimately disposition of a property. The properties of his clients are located nationwide.
Prentiss was chosen by the Legal 500 in Real Estate in 2019.
Experience Highlights
Spear Street Capital in its acquisition of 500 West Monroe, a 966,924 square foot, 46-floor, Class A multi-tenant office building at the corner of Canal Street and Monroe Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois
CBRE Global Investors in its acquisition of Galleria Towers, an iconic 1.4 million square foot, three-building Class A office complex in Dallas, Texas
A real estate joint venture in its leasing and disposition of a 600,000 square foot multi-building Class A industrial complex in Grand Prairie, Texas
A real estate investment firm in its acquisition of office, industrial and development properties in Texas, California, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, formation of joint ventures with various equity sources and financing with various institutional lenders
CBRE Global Investors in its acquisition of Concourse Creative Campus, a 751,093 square foot office complex that consists of two eight-story buildings, one four-story building, and three parking structures in Atlanta, Georgia
A real estate investment firm in its $131 million acquisition of the 33-story, 844,000-square foot multi-tenant Class A office tower known as 2100 Ross in Dallas, Texas
Vinson & Elkins in the leasing of approximately 210,000 square feet in a building to be constructed by Hines in Houston, Texas
A real estate investment firm in its leasing of multiple industrial buildings across the country containing approximately 1,500,000 square feet, in the aggregate, to Wal-Mart
A real estate investment firm in its $45 million acquisition and financing of a leasehold interest in a 360,000 square foot Class A office building in Charlotte, North Carolina
A real estate services firm in its acquisition and financing of a 300,000+ square foot Class A multi-tenant office building in Torrance, California
A real estate development company in the leasing of a 200,000 square foot build-to-suit facility at AllianceTexas to Mercedes Benz Financial Services
A real estate investment firm in its acquisition, financing and disposition upon completion of a 400,000+ square foot industrial building in northwest Houston, Texas
A real estate services firm in its acquisition and financing of a 300,000+ square foot Class A multi-tenant office building in Torrance, California
A real estate investment group in its leasing of a multi-building corporate campus in Ottawa, Ontario
A real estate investment group in its acquisition of three multi-tenant office buildings in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota
Spear Street Capital, LLC in its $135 million acquisition of a four-building office complex totaling approximately 800,000 square feet in Richardson, Texas, commonly known as Galatyn Park
A real estate investment group its acquisition of Cambridge Corporate Center, a three-wing, multi-tenant office building located in the University area of Charlotte, North Carolina
A real estate investment group in its acquisition of the office building known as Marathon Oil Tower, a 41-story, 1.2 million-square-foot office tower located in the Galleria submarket of suburban Houston, Texas
Commonwealth Partners LLC, a private equity fund, in the $305 million acquisition of the office building known as 1888 Century Park East, a 20-story, 500,000-square-foot office tower located in the Century City submarket of Los Angeles, California
Commonwealth Partners LLC, a private equity fund, in acquisition of entities, including a REIT, ultimately owning the three-building office park known as Sunnyvale Office Park in Sunnyvale, California
Lack’s Stores, Inc., one of the largest independently owned retail furniture chains in selling substantially all of its assets located throughout Texas in its chapter 11 case filed in Houston
A private equity fund in its acquisition of downstream assets in Minnesota from Marathon Petroleum Company
A major lending institution in the sale, with seller financing, of a $73 million portfolio of 12 apartment projects in Tucson, Arizona
Credentials
- Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, J.D., B.C.L., 2007 (Order of the Coif; Louisiana Law Review)
- Louisiana State University, B.A., History and B.A., Latin, 2003
- Legal 500 U.S., Real Estate, 2019
- The Best Lawyers in America©(BL Rankings, LLC), Real Estate Law (Dallas), 2021–2024
- Chambers USA, Real Estate (Texas), 2023
- Texas
- Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
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