Connie Simmons Taylor > Baker Botts L.L.P. > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
910 LOUISIANA STREET
HOUSTON
TEXAS 77002-4995
TEXAS
United States
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Connie Simmons Taylor
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner
Section Chair – Real Estate & Construction (Firmwide)
Career
Connie Simmons Taylor handles commercial real estate transactions, primarily representing developers. She advises clients in a wide variety of matters relating to office, industrial and retail leasing (representing mostly landlords, but with some tenant representation); sale, acquisition and development of property; and real estate financing matters (construction and permanent). She is the Co-Chair of the Real Estate and Construction Practice Group.
Memberships
State Bar of Texas; Fellow – American College of Real Estate Lawyers; ICSC – US Law Conference Planning Committee; Commercial Real Estate Women – Houston; Houston Real Estate Lawyers’ Council.
Education
JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Tulane Law School, 1994; BA, English, magna cum laude, University of Houston, 1991. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2006-2023; Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer (Thompson Reuters), 2018-2023.
Personal
Publications
Revisiting Traditional Lease Clauses, State Bar of Texas Advanced Real Estate Drafting Course, March 2021
A Not So Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Recent Case Law Affecting Shopping Centers, ICSC US Law Conference, October 2020
Retail Leases: Essential Aspects and Peculiarities, Bernard O. Dow Leasing Institute, November 2018;
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
Connie Simmons Taylor leads the real estate team at Baker Botts L.L.P. where she specializes in developments, acquisitions, dispositions, with particular expertise in representing developers in major tenant office leases and retail leases. Paul Landen is involved in complex, multi-tier joint ventures, often involving foreign investors. Both partners are based in Houston.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense