Overview
Marc S. Jacobs guides businesses, investors, landlords, and tenants through a wide range of complex commercial real estate transactions, providing representation for matters pertaining to acquisition, disposition, leasing, capitalizing, financing, and development. Within his comprehensive practice, he boasts extensive experience forming and structuring limited partnerships and limited liability companies.
A trusted and highly communicative representative, Marc regularly forges long-term client relationships in which he manages general business and contract needs – keeping operations running smoothly, on schedule, and within specific budget and resource constraints.
Marc is notably proficient in Spanish, which allows him to serve a more diverse client base in domestic transactions and, more specifically, when managing cross-border business and real estate transactions in Mexico. Early in his career, he managed complex litigation for one of the largest independent banks in Texas before it was sold to a multinational Spanish banking group.
Credentials
Education
- The University of Texas School of Law, 1998 (J.D.)
- University of Pennsylvania, 1993 (B.A.)
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- Represented a Houston-based family office in various real estate investments, including a senior housing project, a portfolio of hotels, a commercial real estate debt fund, a 5-star luxury hotel and residential tower, and a Class A multifamily project.
- Represented a portfolio company of a publicly traded energy infrastructure company that is managed by a leading global investment firm in the disposition and leasing of property in the Port of Beaumont.
- Represented a Houston-based investor in the acquisition and disposition of multiple large mobile home parks throughout Texas.
- Represented one of Texas’ largest commercial real estate companies headquartered in Houston, with a focus on retail in connection with the financing and refinancing of various shopping centers primarily in Texas.
- Represented a Houston-based leading owner and operator of industrial, logistics, outdoor storage, and warehouse / distribution properties in the acquisition, disposition, leasing, and financing of such properties.
- Represented a New York-based real estate investment manager that currently manages over $10 billion in commingled funds and separate managed accounts on behalf of public and private pension plans, endowments, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds in the acquisition of self-storage properties in Arizona and Texas.
- Represented a Houston-based owner and operator of value-add retail properties in the acquisition, disposition, and leasing of multiple shopping centers across the Houston MSA.
- Represented a Houston-based investor in the acquisition and leasing of property located along the Houston Ship Channel.
- Represented the owner of a Texas-based affiliate of a Mexican food manufacturing, distribution, and marketing company in connection with the sale of the company to the second-largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America and one of the largest in the world.
- Represented a Houston-based family office in the acquisition, disposition, and leasing of various commercial properties in the Houston MSA as well as the acquisition of a family ranch.
- Represented a Houston-based family office in the acquisition and subdivision of a 140-acre parcel outside of Houston for the development of a community of family farms.
- Texas Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2005, 2009
- Texas Bar College
- Houston Bar Association, Real Estate Section; Mergers & Acquisitions Section
- State Bar of Texas, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section; Business Law and Corporate Counsel Section