About Michelle R. Brown
Practice Areas
- Real Estate
- Corporate Law
- Franchising
Education
- Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas, 1997J.D.
- Honors: cum laude
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Honors: Hatton W. Sumners Scholar
- Law Digest: The International Lawyer, Citation Editor
- Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, Missouri, 1994B.S.
Representative Cases
- Alon USA Energy acquires petroleum refinery from Valero Energy for $433 million
- Arctic Glacier acquires California Ice for $190 million
- Behringer Harvard sells New Jersey office building (2009)
- Dallas Film Society negotiates box office lease at Victory Park in Dallas
- Dallas Film Society negotiates office lease at the Museum of Nature and Science
- Federated sells Lord & Taylor division to NRDC Equity Partners (2009)
- J.C. Penney sells Eckerd drugstore operations to CVS Corp. and The Jean Coutu Group (2009)
- Louisiana-Pacific issues $375 million of Senior Secured Notes and Warrants in a Rule 144A offering and simultaneously closes credit facility (2009)
- Minyard Food Stores sells inventory and files for eleven pharmacies (2009)
- Minyard Food Stores sells inventory and files for six pharmacies (2009)
- Minyard Food Stores sells its Carnival Super Market brand and 37 stores to group led by The Grocers Supply Co., Inc. (2010)
- Morgan Stanley acquires nine full-service Adam's Mark hotels through joint venture
- Morgan Stanley forms joint venture with Lennar to acquire approximately 11,000 homesites, and obtains related financing for the acquisition (2009)
- Morgan Stanley joint venture purchases The Town and Country Trust for $1.5 billion and obtains $1.2 billion CMBS financing for the acquisition (2009)
- Overhead Door acquires North American and European overhead door businesses of Wayne-Dalton (2009)
- Patriarch Partners acquires assets of Croscill (2009)
- Patriarch Partners acquires assets of Red Shield Environmental in bankruptcy buyout (2009)
- Patriarch Partners acquires Spiegel Brands (2009)
- Patriarch Partners recapitalizes Dura Automotive (2010)
- Prime Property Fund receives $195 million CMBS financing for a mid-town Manhattan hotel (2009)
- Pyramid Hotel Opportunity Venture Fund II receives acquisition financing for three-hotel portfolio (2009)
- Pyramid Hotel Opportunity Venture Fund receives financing for five-hotel portfolio (2009)
- Pyramid Hotel Opportunity Venture Fund receives financing for nine-hotel portfolio
- United Dominion Realty Trust sells portfolio of 13 Texas apartment complexes
- Yum! Brands sells Tricon Restaurants International
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Texas
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Partner-In-Charge Dallas
- Of Counsel
- Partner
- Partner
Nearby Lawyers
- Real Estate
- Corporate Law
- Franchising
- 0.5 mile away
- 38.5 miles away
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