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Jonathan W. Dunlay
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jon.dunlay@bakerbotts.com
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Overview Admissions & Affiliations Experience News Awards and Community
Practices
Global Projects
Real Estate
Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions
Real Estate Financings and Refinancings
Industrial and Energy Related to Real Estate
Investment Funds
Real Estate Leasing
Real Estate Development
Real Estate Joint Ventures
Real Estate Property, Development and Asset Management
Tax Matters Related to Real Estate
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
Industries
Energy

Overview

Jon Dunlay represents owners in connection with the acquisition and disposition of office, shopping center, hotel, apartment and land development projects; owners and investors in connection with the formation of ventures; owners in connection with debt and equity financing; owners in connection with development of office, shopping center, hotel and apartment projects; landlords and tenants in connection with office and retail leases; lenders in connection with loan placements, acquisitions of loans, restructuring, foreclosures and deeds in lieu of foreclosure; and owners in connection with restructuring loans.

Admissions & Affiliations

  • State Bar of Texas

    Dallas Bar Association, Real Estate Section, past Chairman

Education

  • J.D., University of Maryland School of Law 1982
    with honors
  • A.B., economics, Princeton University 1979
    cum laude

Experience

  • Representation of owner in connection with a major oil company lease (the largest lease signed in the world in 2011)
  • Representation of owner in connection with the sale of equity interests and refinancing of a major Chicago office building
  • Representation of owner in connection with leasing a new cancer hospital in Dallas to its two major tenants
  • Representation of owner in connection with the sale of a portfolio of 25 neighborhood shopping centers
  • Representation of investor in the formation of ventures constructing assisted living centers around the country
  • Representation of owner in connection with the acquisition and financing of office buildings in San Francisco, Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago, Miami and Cincinnati
  • Representation of landlords and tenants in negotiating major office leases in Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Minneapolis, Louisville, Denver and New York
  • Representation of owner in the acquisition and financing of pools of shopping centers in Texas, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina
  • Representation of owner in connection with restructuring the hotel management agreements for, and refinancing of, a pool of hotels around the country
  • Representation of lender in connection with the acquisition of a subordinate mezzanine loan, foreclosure of the mezzanine loan and restructuring of the mortgage debt and superior mezzanine debt
  • Representation of lender in connection with deeds in lieu of foreclosure of pools of office buildings in Texas 

Awards and Community

Ranked as a "Star Individual" in Real Estate by Chambers USA, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024

Recognized in Chambers USA, 2003-2016

Recommended in The Legal 500 U.S., 2013

Named "Lawyer of the Year for 2014" by The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) for Real Estate Law in Dallas

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.), 2005-2018

Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer (Thomson Reuters), 2004-2015 & 2018