Focused counsel across six connected practices.

Corporate & Business

Day-to-day and transactional counsel for privately held corporations, companies, and entrepreneurs with valuations from $3 million to $100 million+.

• Business formation and entity selection
• Corporate financing
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Asset divestiture
• Ongoing corporate law and outside general counsel services
• Joint venture agreements and investment memoranda of understanding

Finance & Securities

Counsel to borrowers, sponsors, and investors on capital raising and project finance across multiple asset classes.

• Lending and finance counsel for projects valued at $20 million+
• Preparation and administration of Regulation D private securities offerings for programs exceeding $100 million
• Negotiation of financing instruments and investment structuring documents between lenders and investors

Real Estate & Development

Legal direction for programmatic real estate development, from site control and entitlements through financing and closing.

• Commercial real estate transactions, contracts, and leasing
• Directing legal affairs of development enterprises with projects from $20 million to $100 million+
• Structuring investment vehicles for real estate assets exceeding $100 million
• Reorganization of a multi-state multifamily developer with projects exceeding $75 million
• Land use, zoning, subdivision, and annexation
• Legal descriptions, title insurance, and surveys

Tax and Trust/Asset Structuring

Tax-aware structuring of entities, trusts, and assets from an attorney who holds an LL.M. in Taxation and is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court.

• Tax optimization of investment vehicle structuring
• Trust and asset structuring for business owners, investors, and real estate holdings
• Tax considerations in business formation, financing, and divestiture
• Special assessment and development-finance techniques

Government Counsel

Austin has represented more than 20 governments and non-profit or federally funded grant entities as city attorney, county counselor, and outside counsel.

• Planning and zoning
• Large project structuring and public contracting
• Employment law for public employers
• Complex municipal liability issues, including 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and standard operating procedures
• City prosecution
• Foreign direct investment counsel (Outside Counsel to the Kansas Department of Commerce FDI Regional Center)