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Will Smith is a member of Winstead's Real Estate Development & Investments Practice Group. Will’s practice focuses on real estate, with an emphasis on the planning, development, risk management, administration and marketing of single-family, townhome, condominium, commercial, and mixed-use projects, as well as resorts, clubs, and fractional ownership structures. Will also works with developers and builders on Interstate Land Sales Act (ILSA) compliance and registration and compliance with secondary mortgage market (FHA, VA, FNMA, etc.) requirements. Will has experience in a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions, including drafting acquisition and disposition contracts, easements, development and license agreements. Will also represents build-for-rent and single-family rental owners and in planning for accommodating build-for-rent and single-family rental projects within master-planned communities.

Will clerked for the Honorable Justice Debra Lehrmann of the Texas Supreme Court. Prior to practicing law, Will worked as an analyst for a commercial real estate firm, focusing on multi-family property performance and acquisition due diligence.

Representative Experience

  • Representation of national, regional, and local developers, builders, and investors in the development, governance, management, administration, marketing, and sale of single-family, townhome, condominium, commercial, and mixed-use projects.
  • Representation of national, regional, and local developers and builders in the market re-positioning, re-configuration, and re-development of existing single-family, townhome, condominium, commercial, and mixed-use projects.
  • Representation of national, regional, and local developers and builders before municipalities and governmental agencies related to the development and administration of residential and mixed-use projects.
  • Representation of national, regional, and local developers and builders in the acquisition of real property for development.
  • Representation of condominium, residential, commercial, and mixed-use property owner associations.

Education

  • Texas A&M University School of Law
    • J.D.
    • summa cum laude
    • Articles Editor, Texas A&M Law Review
    • Dean's List
  • Trinity University
    • B.S., Business

Admissions

  • Texas
  • Arizona

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