Mark Patterson

Special Counsel

  • Mark Patterson
  • Phone: +1 214 257 7240

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  • Duane Morris LLP
    100 Crescent Court, Suite 1200
    Dallas, TX 75201
    USA

Mark L. Patterson practices in the area of real estate law (including real estate finance). Mr. Patterson provides advice and counsel to investors and regional developers in multimillion-dollar commercial real estate development projects. He also represents clients in multifamily apartment developments, including entity structuring for developers and other property owners, and complex financings for all types of commercial real estate transactions. Mr. Patterson also has experience in reviewing and negotiating CCRs, PIDs, TIFs and other development and incentive agreements, and in advising clients in the formation and structuring of entities in real estate funds. Mr. Patterson also represents CMBS loan servicers and other clients regarding permanent mortgage lending, mezzanine finance, pari passu, and subordinate debt, intercreditor, co-lending and participation arrangements, as well as loan workouts, extensions, foreclosures, restructurings, assumptions and non-transfer consents. He regularly provides real estate (including real estate finance) support to the restructuring group in complex bankruptcy cases, as well as legal opinion support for Texas real estate secured lending transactions.

Mr. Patterson is a 1994 cum laude graduate of South Texas College of Law Houston, where he was articles editor of the South Texas Law Review. He also received an M.B.A. in Finance, with honors, from the University of Houston and a B.B.A. in Accounting, with honors, from the University of Texas at Austin.

Areas of Practice

  • Real Estate Law
  • Corporate (Finance) Law

Admissions

  • Texas

Education

  • South Texas College of Law, J.D., cum laude
    - Articles Editor, South Texas Law Review
    - Member of Order of the Lytae
  • University of Houston, M.B.A., Finance
  • University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., Accounting

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Special Counsel, 2023-present
  • Glast, Phillips & Murray PC
    - Member, 2022-2023
  • McDermott, Will & Emery LLP
    - Counsel, 2020-2021
  • Katten
    - Special Counsel, 2019-2020
  • Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
    - Senior Counsel, 2006-2019
  • Glast, Phillips & Murray PC
    - Member, 2006
  • Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
    - Counsel, 2004-2006
  • Jenkins & Gilchrist, A Professional Corporation
    - Associate, 1998-2004
  • Jackson Walker LLP
    - Associate, 1996-1998
  • Sprouse Mozola Smith & Rowley
    - Associate, 1994-1996

Professional Activities

  • Dallas Bar Association

  • State Bar of Texas
    - Real Property and Corporate Sections
    - Past Member, Journal Committee

  • College of the State Bar of Texas

Selected Publications

  • "Recording the Foreclosure Sale Deed – What's the Fuss?" Texas Lawyer, November 9, 2020

  • "Principal/Agency Issues Facing Participants in the CMBS Industry," CMBS World, Winter 2005

  • "Legal Pitfalls Loom Large in CMBS Transactions," Dallas Business Journal, August 9, 2004

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • "Basics of EB-5 Lending," 49th Annual William W. Gibson, Jr. Mortgage Lending Institute at the University of Texas, September 17-18, 2015, Austin, Texas, and November 5-6, 2015, Dallas, Texas