Nick Buehner Returns to Vinson & Elkins as Real Estate Partner

Vinson & Elkins today announced that Nick Buehner has rejoined the firm as a Dallas-based partner in the Real Estate practice.

Buehner’s practice focuses on real estate investment, real estate development and real estate asset management. He has represented private equity funds and developers in many creative, large-scale real estate investments across the country and is particularly adept at joint ventures, debt financings, ground leases, acquisitions, dispositions, and the development of multifamily, office, industrial, retail, and mixed-use properties.

Buehner previously worked at Vinson & Elkins in the Real Estate practice before joining Goldman Sachs, where he was vice president and senior counsel for the asset management division’s real estate investing business. In this role he advised on all aspects of real estate investment, development and asset management for investments made using the firm’s balance sheet and its sponsored funds.

He rejoins Vinson & Elkins from Trammell Crow Company, where he was assistant general counsel, with responsibility for overseeing the company’s joint venture agreements with its capital partners to develop real estate projects across the United States. He also advised on crafting creative structures with counterparties to help all parties achieve their goals, such as participating ground leases, credit tenant leases, and joint ventures with landowners and other developers.

“Nick is well-known and well-liked across the firm for his skill, deep knowledge of the real estate industry, and dynamic, outgoing personality,” said Vinson & Elkins Real Estate Partner Russell Oshman, the managing partner of the firm’s Dallas office. “Our clients will value his commercial judgment and the breadth of experience that he brings to matters.”

“When I decided to return to private practice, Vinson & Elkins was a perfect fit,” Buehner said. “What sets Vinson & Elkins’ Real Estate practice apart is its deep bench of talent and the fact that every attorney in the group is consistently excellent. I look forward to reconnecting with many colleagues and friends and to helping Vinson & Elkins sustain its long-standing reputation as a leader in the real estate industry.”

Buehner received a Bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Yale University. After business school he worked for a real estate developer. Later, Buehner went to law school and earned a Juris Doctor from Stanford University.

With a national platform and global network, Vinson & Elkins’ Commercial Real Estate practice provides sophisticated, comprehensive counsel in advising owners, developers, investors, lenders, real estate operating and services firms, landlords, and tenants on all legal aspects in the commercial real estate space.