Brent Houston’s practice is focused on real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, estate planning, and general business representation.

Mr. Houston’s real estate practice includes real property acquisitions and dispositions, development, leasing, financing, land banking, condominium and planned community formation, foreclosures and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure, and construction contracts.

Mr. Houston provides comprehensive business representation, including entity formation, buy-sell agreements, operating agreements, debt and equity financing, employment agreements, vendor contracts, trademark protection, dispute resolution, and exit planning.

Over the past two decades, Mr. Houston has represented several home builders, office building developers, shopping center developers, construction contractors, private equity companies, commercial landlords and tenants, medical practice groups, and a variety of start-up businesses.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT KANSAS CITY, L.L.M. (Taxation), 1997
Advanced Tax Fellowship

WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, J.D. (With Honors), 1996

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, B.S. Business Administration (Psychology Minor), 1992

Author, Structuring Real Estate Investments for Later Development: Maximizing Long-Term Capital Gain, 33 Colorado Law 8, p. 129 (Aug. 2004)

Contributor, Closely Held Corporations in Business and Estate Planning (Little Brown & Co. 1996)

Real Estate Transaction
Mergers & Acquisitions
Loan Transactions
Estate Planning
General Business Representation

Real Estate Developers
Construction Contractors
Private Equity Companies
Start-Up Businesses
Medical Practice Groups
Landlords and Tenants