Kati Orso

Leasing

• Represents national drive-thru coffee chain on portfolio of ground leases and build to suit leases.
• Represented the owner/developer of The Ion in the lease negotiations for Stuff’d Wings located in the Houston Innovation District.
• Handles a commercial leasing portfolio for a national pet healthcare company leasing both in-line and free-standing space in retail centers across the United States.
• Responsible for leasing portfolio of a national healthcare company, including medical office building spaces and service-oriented retail spaces.
• Represents retail developer with a shopping center portfolio consisting of over 12,000,000 square feet of retail space on restaurant ground leases, junior anchor, and anchor leases, including negotiation of major anchor lease with a national discount home furnishings retailer, within a major “Town Center” shopping district in the greater Houston, Texas metropolitan area.
• Represented landlord in 65,000 square foot office lease to a nationally recognized conference and festival company for its Austin, Texas, headquarters.
• Represented international technology company in lease of new Americas headquarters in Austin, Texas.
• Represented social media company in lease for a 115,000 square foot headquarters in Austin, Texas.
• Represented international real estate company in lease of downtown office space in Austin, Texas.
• Represented New York based real estate company on portfolio of office leases in Texas.

Acquisitions and Sales

• Represented global private equity firm in an $18.7 billion acquisition of approximately 179 million square feet of urban, infill logistics assets, with specific emphasis on title, survey, and zoning matters.
• Represented global private equity firm on title, survey, and zoning diligence matters for a $1 billion acquisition of a 68 property logistics portfolio located in 10 high-growth markets across the United States.
• Represented global investment firm on title, survey, and zoning matters for a $1.8 billion acquisition of a 48 property senior living portfolio.
• Represented private equity firm in a $29.5 million acquisition of a multi-family residential portfolio.

• Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2021-2023
• “San Antonio’s Outstanding Women in Law,” San Antonio Scene, 2021
• “Best S.A. Lawyers” List, Real Estate Transactions, San Antonio Scene, 2021-2022
• Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation, 2020

• Co-Presenter, “Rent Relief in the Time of Pandemic,” UT Law CLE Bernard O. Dow Leasing Institute (November 2020)
• Co-Author, “Using Letters of Credit for Tenant Credit Enhancement,” ABA Probate & Property, Vol. 27, No. 3 (May/June 2013)
• Speaker and Co-Author of Discussion Materials, “Achieving a Sensible Definition of ‘Gross Sales,’” Roundtable Discussion at the 2013 ICSC U.S. Shopping Center’s Law Conference in San Diego, California

• State Bar of Texas, Real Estate, Probate and Tax Section, Member
• Austin Bar Association, Member
• Real Estate Council of Austin, Member
• International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), Member
• Junior League of Austin, Member
• Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow