Courtney E. Hammond

Partner

Real Estate

Overview

Courtney is a real estate lawyer representing a wide range of clients, including public and private real estate investment trusts, private equity investors and developers. Her practice focuses on the acquisition, development, financing and disposition of commercial real estate projects across a variety of asset types during all stages of the economic cycle, including office, industrial, retail, hospitality and multifamily. In addition to Courtney’s experience with commercial real estate purchase and sale transactions, joint ventures, and construction and permanent financings, she also represents clients with respect to real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Experience

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
A fund managed by Clarion Partners, LLC in its $335 million acquisition of Golden Triangle Industrial Park, an industrial warehouse park consisting of 11 buildings containing approximately 2.4 million square feet of space located on approximately 130 acres of land in Las Vegas, Nevada
Sunoco in the $3.3 billion sale of approximately 1,100 gas station/convenient stores located in 15 states to 7-Eleven
A publicly traded real estate investment trust in its $99 million acquisition of a 377,000 square foot, single tenant office building located in Hunt Valley, Maryland
A fund managed by Clarion Partners, LLC in a multi-phase joint venture with PaulsCorp for the development and construction financings of multiple industrial buildings on approximately 103 acres in Aurora, Colorado
A real estate investment company and its development partner in the acquisition, development, and construction financing of two industrial warehouses on approximately 69.27 acres of unimproved land located in North Las Vegas, Nevada
Crow Family Holdings in its $350 million refinancing by two co-lenders of a 1,606-room convention center hotel with approximately 600,000 square feet of meeting and event space
An Austin-based private investment firm in its $120 million disposition of a 1,700-acre master planned community in McKinney, Texas
Spear Street Capital in its financing of 225 West Wacker, a 650,812 square foot, 31-floor, trophy, Class A, headquarter-quality office building located on the south bank of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois
A fund managed by Clarion Partners, LLC in its acquisition, development with Seefried Development Company, Inc., and construction financing of approximately 51.810 acres of unimproved land located in Gwinnett County, Georgia
A real estate investment firm in its leasing and $46 million disposition of 3131 Turtle Creek, a 13-floor, 318,230 square foot Class A multi-tenant office building in Dallas, Texas
Spirit Realty Capital in separate acquisitions of industrial, office and retail assets located in Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Texas

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Industrial Equity Partners Fund LP in the acquisition and simultaneous sale of approximately 308 acres of land in Grayson, Kentucky and power-related infrastructure rights to a third-party digital infrastructure developer and operator for the development of a high-performance computing and AI data center
Sailfish Investors in the 80-acre land acquisition in Hood County, Texas and related power generation facility matters in connection with a data center development
Developer in the acquisition of approximately 115 acres of powered land in Corpus Christi, Texas for the development of a multi-phase data center
Data center developer in various colocation leases with cloud providers for to-be-constructed buildings in Texas, Tennessee, and Arizona
An AI digital infrastructure provider in the acquisition of approximately 200 acres in Bastrop County, Texas for a data center development (ongoing)
Developer in all aspects of the development of an over 750MW data center campus (and related power) in the Mountain West, including all land, power, equity financing and other arrangements (ongoing)
An investor in the acquisition of an entity owning approximately 90 acres of powered land in Austin County, Texas, and the subsequent sale of such entity to a data center developer
Developer in the development of integrated behind-the-meter power generation, cooling, and thermal energy storage facilities to be co-located with a hyperscale data center under development in West Texas (ongoing)

Daseke, Inc., the leading consolidator of flatbed and specialized transportation companies in North America, in its acquisition of eight companies over three years
Centerbridge Partners and its portfolio company, American Bath Group, a leading manufacturer of showers, bathtubs and related accessories, in its acquisition of DreamLine, a leading provider of branded premium glass shower doors, enclosures, and accessories under the DreamLine and Arizona Shower Door brands, from MPE Partners
Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust in the $1.9 billion acquisition, with Starwood Capital Group, of Landmark Apartment Trust, a multifamily real estate investment trust
Frontier Tubular Solutions, a portfolio company of SCF Partners, in its acquisition of Permian Enterprises, a tubular goods service provider
Special situations investor in its role as lender and administrative agent under $129 million of revolver and multi-draw term loan prepetition and DIP financing and $50 million of take-back exit financing provided in connection with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and equitization of a multi-site private cinema chain

Capabilities

Credentials

Education

The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2014 (Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, The Review of Litigation)
The University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., Business Economics (minor, Civic Engagement) cum laude, 2011

Admissions

Texas

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Recognitions

Legal 500 U.S., Real Estate, 2025
Chambers USA, “Up and Coming” in Real Estate (Texas), 2025 and 2026
The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Real Estate Law (Dallas), 2021–2024; Real Estate Law (Dallas), 2025–2027
Texas Lawyer, Rising Star, 2023

Insights

CLE Events

Structuring a Data Center

This program will explore data center power supply structures and considerations.

September 1, 2026

September 1, 2026 • 2-minute read

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Events

Vinson & Elkins Sponsoring and Speaking at Kayo’s 2026 Energy & Infrastructure Summit

Vinson & Elkins is a Silver Level Sponsor of the Kayo Women’s 2026 Energy & Infrastructure Summit, taking place June …

June 23, 2026

June 23, 2026 • 1-minute read

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Podcasts

Powering Progress Episode 5 – The Space Behind the Servers: Real Estate Structures for AI Infrastructure

Data centers may be powered by energy and technology, but their success also depends on the real estate structures that …

May 22, 2026

May 22, 2026 • 7-minute read

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