Practice Areas

Real Estate Acquisitions and Sales
Leasing - Commercial and Residential
Affordable and Subsidized Housing Law
Landlord / Tenant Disputes
Real Estate Litigation
Estate Planning and Probate

Practice Emphasis

Ms. Beasley assists clients with their real estate needs, ranging from acquiring and financing property, to leasing property, to sales and dispositions. For clients purchasing or selling property, representation includes assistance with the purchase contract negotiation of financing terms, due diligence and review of or clearance of title issues and drafting and negotiating closing documents. For clients who own income-producing property, Ms. Beasley assists with leasing issues and landlord-tenant matters, title matters and boundary disputes. In situations where clients have secured interests in real property, she assists clients with foreclosures.

Representative Clients

• Multi-family housing management companies

• Landlords and commercial tenants

• Real estate developers

• Middle market businesses

• Financial institutions

Representative Matters

• Served as Texas real estate counsel representing purchaser with respect to a $600 million international share and business sale transaction involving plant facilities for processing of petroleum refining catalysts, isomerisation catalysts, chemical process catalysts and related operations.

• Served as member of Texas real estate counsel team representing the lenders in a $240 million financing of an electric cogeneration and water treatment facility.

• Served as member of Texas real estate counsel representing the lessee in the $194 million leaseback refinancing of a corporate office campus.

• Assisted major utility company in transfer of all of its real and personal property in Texas in connection with electric deregulation.

• Represent financial institutions in loan closing transactions, foreclosure of real and personal property and collections.

• Represent developers for an affordable housing project, a franchise hotel and residential subdivision.

• Substantial experience in commercial and residential landlord-tenant law, including multi-family and subsidized housing.

• Negotiated numerous lease and purchase contracts for large and small businesses, educational organizations and individuals.

Affiliations

• Member, Southwestern Affordable Housing Management Association

• Member, Board of Directors for the Southwestern Affordable Housing Management Association

• Member, Park Cities Baptist Church; 7th grade small group leader

Professional Involvement

• Member, State Bar of Texas

• Member, Dallas Bar Association

            • Real Property Section

                        • Chair, 2007

                        • Vice Chair, 2006

                        • Secretary, 2005

                        • Treasurer, 2004

Honors and Awards

• Recognized as one of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas Under 40” D Magazine (May, 2006)

• E. Randolph Williams Award for outstanding pro bono services (2004)

• Presented the State Bar of Texas Legal Professionalism Award

• President of Phi Alpha Delta, 1991

Publications / Speaking

• Author and Speaker, “Dead Bodies and Abandoned Property,” Southwestern Affordable Housing Management Association, October 2006

• Co-author and Speaker, “Proper Lease Termination and the Grounds Therefore,” Southwestern Affordable Housing Management Association, August 2005

• Co-author and Speaker, “Landlord-Tenant Law,” May 2005

• Co-author and Speaker, “Commercial and Residential Evictions in Texas,”
June 2002

• Co-author and Speaker, “Evictions and Landlord/Tenant Law in Texas,”
October 2001

• Speaker, “Annual Presentations for Southwestern Affordable Housing,” Management Association Conference, 1993-2005

Education and Professional Background

• Admitted in Texas

• J.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, (1991)

• B.A., (summa cum laude) Louisiana Tech University, (1988)