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Spence M. Howden

Spence M. Howden

Associate, Austin
512.236.2078
smhowden@jw.com
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  • Real Estate

Biography

Spence Howden is an attorney in the real estate practice of Jackson Walker’s Austin office. Spence represents individuals and businesses in all aspects of real estate acquisition and disposition, development, and leasing. He has substantial experience drafting and negotiating all types of real estate purchase agreements, including option contracts. Spence regularly reviews title and drafts closing documents for real estate acquisitions and dispositions. He has also represented lenders, individual investors, family offices, and other entities in financing and lending transactions involving office and retail properties.

During law school at Washington and Lee, Spence worked at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel, and sat on the board of The Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series. Prior to law school, he spent a year in Washington, D.C., clerking at a civil litigation firm. As an undergraduate student at The University of Texas, he interned at Frost Bank, the Railroad Commission of Texas, and the Office of the Texas Governor.

Education

B.B.A., The University of Texas at Austin

J.D., cum laude, Washington and Lee University School of Law

  • Washington and Lee Law Review
  • Kirgis Fellow

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Recognition & Accolades Publications & Speeches Client Results Attorney News
  • Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2023
  • “Text Messages are Property: Why You Don’t Own Your Text messages, but It’d Be a Lot Cooler if You Did,” 76 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1073 (2019)
Jackson Walker Represents D.R. Horton in Acquisition of Riggins Custom Homes

December 19, 2022

Jackson Walker Serves as US Counsel to Grupo Lamosa in Acquisition of Grupo Roca’s Flat Ceramic Division

August 30, 2021

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March 23, 2023

Attorney News

Jackson Walker Congratulates Its 2023 Texas Rising Stars

Jackson Walker is pleased to announce the selection of 63 attorneys to Thomson Reuters’ 2023 “Super Lawyers – Rising Stars” list, which recognizes only 5% of Texas attorneys who either are 40 years of age or younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less.

Home frame construction with JW logo

December 19, 2022

Client Results

Jackson Walker Represents D.R. Horton in Acquisition of Riggins Custom Homes

Jackson Walker represented D.R. Horton, Inc. as the company’s lead real estate counsel in the acquisition of Riggins Custom Homes, one of the largest builders in Northwest Arkansas, for a cash purchase of approximately $107 million.

Ceramic tiles with Jackson Walker logo

August 30, 2021

Client Results

Jackson Walker Serves as US Counsel to Grupo Lamosa in Acquisition of Grupo Roca’s Flat Ceramic Division

Jackson Walker acted as U.S. counsel to Grupo Lamosa, S.A.B. de C.V., one of the world’s leading ceramic tile manufacturers, in the purchase of Grupo Roca’s flat ceramic division for $260 million. The transaction includes the acquisition of Tiles Investments and Holdings, SL and its subsidiaries, which have a presence in Spain, Brazil, and the United States.

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Recognition & Accolades

  • Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2023

Publications & Speeches

  • “Text Messages are Property: Why You Don’t Own Your Text messages, but It’d Be a Lot Cooler if You Did,” 76 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1073 (2019)

Practice Areas

  • Real Estate
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