プロフィール
Richard A. Crow is a real estate lawyer, with experience in a wide range of complex commercial real estate matters. He represents real estate developers, landlords and tenants in lease transactions, including large office, retail, and mixed-use transactions, and public and private entities in sports venue development transactions. His clients include governmental entities, universities and junior colleges, national quick service restaurant chains, and publicly traded companies. He also represents several high-profile Houston-based restaurateurs.
Richard is Board Certified in Commercial Real Estate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is a frequent speaker at Texas State Bar and other continuing legal education courses, and in 2023 served as director for the Texas State Bar Advanced Real Estate Law Course in San Antonio, Texas. In 2024-2025, he will serve as Chair of the Real Estate Probate and Trust Law Section (REPTL) of the Texas State Bar.
取扱分野
実績紹介
- Represented publicly traded data center operator in the redevelopment of its campus.
- Represented purchaser of a large, financially distressed multi-tenant retail center out of bankruptcy.
- Negotiated settlement on behalf of sports venue operator in dispute with a governmental entity.
- Represented university in the development and leasing of an arena to host its NCAA Division I men’s and women’s hockey teams.
- Represented James Beard Award winning chef in negotiations with a landlord and a financially distressed tenant to terminate the tenant’s lease, purchase its assets, and enter into a new lease with landlord.
- Represented a national quick-service restaurant chain in the acquisition of its first locations in Greater Houston.
- Board Certified, Commercial Real Estate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 2016-Present
受賞歴・所属団体
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law, 2018-2025
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Texas Super Lawyers, 2022-2024
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2023
- Selected, Texas Bar CLE, “Best of. . . the 2019 Advanced Real Estate Law Course,” 2019
- Selected, Texas State Bar CLE, Steven C. Haley Award for Best Speaker, Advanced Real Estate Law Course, 2017
- Director, Texas State Bar Advanced Real Estate Law Course, San Antonio, Texas, 2023
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Member, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Chair, 2024-2025
- Secretary and Incoming Chair, 2023-2024
- Treasurer, 2022-2023
- Council Member, 2016-2020
- Chair, Real Estate Legislative Affairs Committee , 2013-2019
- Member, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Member, Houston Bar Association
- Member, Real Estate Section
- Fellow, American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), 2019-Present
- Member, Houston Real Estate Lawyers Council (HRELC), 2019-Present
- Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
- Member, Texas Bar College, 2023-Present
- Member, Honorary Board of Directors, Houston Dia de Los Muertos Gala and Parade, 2022
学歴・資格・言語
- 法務博士, cum laude, University of Houston Law Center
- M.S., Wright State University-Main Campus
- 学士号, Ambassador University
- Texas