Susan C. Cox
Partner

Contact

(T) +1.214.969.4586
(F) +1.214.969.5100

Education

  • The University of Texas at Austin (J.D. 1995; M.P. Affairs 1995, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs; Phi Kappa Phi); Austin College (B.A. with concentration in Political Science 1991; Hatton W. Sumners Scholar)

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia and Texas

Susan Cox practices in the area of general real estate law with an emphasis on real estate finance, workouts and restructurings, acquisitions and dispositions of real estate and nonperforming loan portfolios, and international investments. She has provided counsel to clients in U.S. domestic transactions as well as a number of real estate transactions in Europe and Asia.

Representative transactions include: Morgan Stanley's financing of the $6.5 billion buyout of Crescent Real Estate Equities Company and the $525 million acquisition and financing of 11,000 homesites from Lennar Corp.; the workout of an over $2 billion acquisition loan as well as smaller loans ranging from $20 million to $500 million; the financing by Morgan Stanley, Onex Real Estate, and Sawyer Realty of the $1.5 billion buyout of Town and Country Trust, the subsequent sales of more than $1 billion of the corresponding Town and Country assets, and the refinancing of the remainder of the Town and Country portfolio; and the $171 million initial public offering of Thomas Properties Group, Inc.

Susan is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the State Bar of Georgia, the Dallas Bar, and CREW Dallas. Susan was recently selected to participate in the Dallas Chamber of Commerce "Leadership Dallas" program for 2010-2011.

Susan is a founding member of CREW Dallas' Speaker Bureau. She has served as a panelist for certain Texas Bar programs as well as a guest lecturer to the SMU School of Law topical real estate class.


Susan Cox