Tai brings extensive experience in commercial real estate and finance transactions, including real estate acquisitions and sales, development and leasing, and commercial lending. He represents a diverse range of clients, such as investors, owners, developers, lenders, private equity firms, real estate funds, financial institutions, commercial landlords and tenants, and colleges and universities. Tai’s practice spans office, multifamily, industrial, retail, hotel, single-family lot development, and mixed-use projects across Texas and other states.
Tai has significant experience advising and counseling owners, developers, and investors in acquiring, developing, and selling land and improvements for multifamily, retail, commercial, industrial, and residential real estate projects, including condominiums, mixed-use developments, and student housing facilities. He also represents developers of master-planned communities in connection with single-family residential lot development and sales to homebuilders.
Tai represents national and state lending institutions with their respective acquisition, development, and construction financing activities in Texas and other states. His experience also covers a wide range of commercial lending and corporate finance transactions, including loan syndication, asset-based lending, subordinated debt, and mezzanine financing.
Tai represents numerous financial institutions, including federal savings banks, life insurance companies, and various state and national banking associations in workouts, restructures, and foreclosures concerning commercial real and personal property in Texas, California, Illinois, Utah, and other states. He has substantial experience negotiating forbearance agreements, resolving priority of lien issues, and examining lender liability claims on behalf of lenders as well as debtors. Tai also represents lenders and investors in connection with the acquisition, disposition, and financing of REO assets.
Tai regularly represents both landlords and tenants with respect to office, retail, and industrial projects in Texas and other states. In connection with workouts and foreclosures, he advises clients on a broad range of lease subordination and rental issues relating to foreclosure of liens.