Jenn R. Cooley

Counsel

Real Estate

Jenn R. Cooley

Overview

Jenn is a seasoned commercial real estate lawyer with a focus on complex leasing transactions. Known for her practical judgment and collaborative style, Jenn represents landlords, tenants, developers, and corporate users in transactions that require both legal precision and a deep understanding of business priorities.

With more than two decades of experience advising on office, retail, industrial, data center, and mixed use assets, Jenn routinely drafts and negotiates complex commercial leases, amendments, and portfolio management documents; advises on space planning and build out matters; and serves as a strategic resource for clients navigating multi jurisdictional real estate needs. Jenn’s practice includes advising on data center leasing and digital infrastructure projects, a rapidly evolving sector where her contract structuring skills and real estate acumen provide significant value to clients. Her work is distinguished by her practical approach, meticulous attention to detail, clear drafting, and an ability to navigate sophisticated transactions to completion efficiently and effectively across multiple markets.

Jenn is particularly valued for her counsel to national companies with frequent and varied leasing needs, helping them standardize processes, streamline risk, and maintain momentum in fast moving business environments.

Experience

  • Pacific Elm Properties in drafting and negotiating leases, amendments, proposals, licenses, property management agreements, and other documents related to the acquisition, development, leasing and ownership of numerous Class A office buildings in the Dallas area

  • Several Lincoln Property Company and Goldman Sachs joint ventures in the full lease up of multiple ground-up Class A multi-tenant office tower developments in Texas, Tennessee, and Arizona

  • Numerous successful lease negotiations with a major online retailer for warehouse locations all over the United States, on behalf of multiple clients

  • Data center operators in the drafting and negotiation of multiple data center leases in locations across the United States

  • Gaedke Group in the leasing and property management matters related to various Class A office buildings in Texas, Florida and Washington DC

  • Private investment firm, as landlord, in connection with the leasing of millions of square feet of industrial warehouse and logistics space in locations across the United States

  • Represented numerous successive owners in the leasing and management of 1.4 million square feet of space in the Galleria Towers in Dallas, Texas

  • CBRE Global Investors in the leasing and operation of multiple office and retail properties throughout Texas

  • Rockpoint Group in the lease up of a ground-up development of a multi-building industrial park in Florida

  • Perot Development Company in the leasing of build-to-suit and multi-tenant industrial buildings near DFW Airport

  • Represented landlords and tenants in the drafting and negotiation of numerous office headquarters leases for major US companies in the United States

  • Acquisition of 1 AT&T Plaza, a 37-floor office building located in downtown Dallas, Texas

  • Private investment firm, as landlord, in the drafting and negotiation of an anchor-tenant ground lease at a major shopping center Long Island, New York

  • Leasing, entitlement and development of a seven-acre retail shopping center in Brentwood, California

  • Drafted and negotiated a preferred developer’s standard form of lease with a publicly traded convenience store company

  • Private REIT in numerous transactions involving the acquisition and disposition of industrial and warehouse properties throughout the United States

Capabilities

Credentials

Education

  • American University, Washington College of Law, J.D. cum laude, 2005
  • University of Southern Mississippi, B.A. with highest honors, 2002

Admissions

  • Texas

Recognitions

  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Real Estate Law (Dallas), 2023–2027
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Texas Lassos Foreign Investment Regulation with Real Property Restrictions and Proposed “Texas Committee on Foreign Investment”

The Texas Legislature was active this Session in proposing and passing bills that seek to restrict foreign ownership of real estate and businesses in Texas.

September 17, 2025 • V&E CFIUS Update Published by The Real Estate Finance Journal, November 2025

September 17, 2025 • 6-minute read

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