Jay Hailey practices in all areas of commercial real estate law, including zoning and other land use matters. The respected English research firm Chambers & Partners recognizes Mr. Hailey in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, citing his "extensive experience." He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for real estate and banking and has been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer, in a joint project of Texas Monthly and Law & Politics magazines, for real estate.

Mr. Hailey represents clients in complex transactions, including the structuring of partnerships, limited liability companies, ground leases, tenancies-in-common, condominium regimes, and other forms of ownership for mixed use projects and master planned communities; the purchase, sale, financing, zoning, development, and construction of office, industrial, retail, and residential projects; the creation of public-private partnerships; and the negotiation of financial incentives and development agreements with governmental entities.

Recent transactions include:

• Negotiation of ground leases, retail subleases, and development agreements for construction of a large mixed use project on two blocks of city-owned land in downtown Austin.
• Assistance with securing land acquisition, zoning and other entitlements for several high-rise residential condominium projects in downtown Austin.
• Structuring of a partnership between retail and residential developers and creation of a condominium regime for the residential component of a regional mixed use lifestyle retail center.
• Negotiation of restrictive covenants, license agreements, easements and other development agreements for a mixed use urban in-fill project on state-owned land.
• Negotiation of acquisition, development, and co-tenancy ownership agreements for a large master planned, mixed use project on state-owned land and adjacent brownfield site.
• Purchase and sale of several high-rise office buildings and tracts of land in downtown Austin.
• Purchase, financing, and subsequent resale of several tracts of land for a master planned golf course community, including a large retail center.
• Negotiation of ground leases, easements and other documents, title review, and due diligence work for land acquisition, construction and financing of several West Texas wind power projects.

REGISTRATIES

• Texas

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• State Bar of Texas - Board of Directors, 1982 - 1985
• State Bar of Texas Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section Council Member, 1995 - 1999
• Travis County Bar Association - President, 1980 - 1981; Director, 1977 - 1979
• American Bar Association
• Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• American College of Real Estate Lawyers

Seminars

• "Real Estate and the Three Es - Economic Incentives, Environmental Protection and Equitable Considerations," State Bar of Texas Advanced Real Estate Law Course (July 2002)
• “Jumpstarting Downtown Revitalization: Problems and Solutions in Public-Private Redevelopment Projects,” University of Texas Conference on Land Use Planning Law (February 2001)
• “New Urbanism: Law and Design,” The University of Texas School of Law Conference on Land Use Planning Law (March 1998)
• “High Tech Real Estate,” The University of Texas School of Law Mortgage Lending Institute (September 1994)

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• Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce - Board of Directors, 1994 - 1996
• Real Estate Council of Austin - President, 1995; Board of Directors, 1993 - 1998
• The University of Texas School of Architecture Foundation Advisory Council - Life Member; Chair, 2002 -2004
• Urban Land Institute Full Member; ULI Public-Private Partnership Council; ULI Austin District Council – Chair, 2003 – 2005
• Envision Central Texas-Board of Directors and Executive Committee