Real Estate

Acquisitions and Dispositions
Cochran Baker represents developers, banks, corporations, individuals, and others in the ownership, acquisition, development, management, and disposition of commercial and residential real property. Our experience includes numerous property types including undeveloped land, apartments, office buildings, and retail centers.

Affordable Housing Development
Our lawyers have extensive experience in all aspects of affordable housing development and finance, including low-income housing tax credit and tax exempt bond transactions.

Financing
We at Cochran Baker have represented lenders and borrowers in construction, development, and acquisition financing.

Structuring
Our lawyers have represented clients in structuring transactions to accommodate their tax, financial, and strategic objectives.

Business Investment
We are focused on legal issues, but are also experienced in business and investment evaluations.

Leasing
We have extensive experience representing landlords and tenants in commercial lease transactions.

Corporate

Mergers and Acquisitions
Cochran Baker represents sellers and buyers of companies and has experience with a wide array of acquisition structures including stock and asset sales, recapitalizations, mergers, and tender offers for both public and private companies. We also have been involved in these transactions in a variety of industries including oil and gas exploration and production companies, many aspects of the oil and gas services sector, health care, entertainment, and high tech.

Entity Formation
We have experience in helping entrepreneurs select the type of entity that best suits their business goals, form the company, and develop related agreements, such as shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, employment agreements, stock option agreements, and agreements to safeguard intellectual property.

Finance
We have represented a venture capital groups making investments in the oil and gas service, health care and insurance fields, as well as numerous start-up or growing companies who have benefited from venture capital or other outside investment including technology joint ventures.

General Business
We counsel our clients on a wide variety of day to day legal issues, such as preparation, review and interpretation of nondisclosure agreements, employment and termination agreements, negotiated dispute resolutions and preparation of releases, marketing and distribution agreements, service agreements with customers, and other matters routinely faced in today's business world.

Trusts and Estates

Cochran Baker counsels individuals, families, and business owners in all forms of planning including wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, life insurance trusts, family limited partnerships, and other types of entities.

Cochran Baker also represents executors and trustees as well as estate and trust beneficiaries.

Government

Public Finance
Cochran Baker serves as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel or disclosure counsel on governmental financings throughout Texas, including on a variety of city, special district and state agency issuances. Additionally, we serve as underwriters’ and purchasers’ counsel in many public finance transactions.

Local Government Representation
We also serve as outside counsel to numerous utility districts, authorities and special districts in a variety of matters including elections, open meetings, open records, annexation, public bidding, and civil rights issues.

Disclosure Counsel
Our attorneys provide advice to governmental issuers on issuer disclosure obligations and assist in preparation of the official statement and continuing disclosure agreement.

Stimulus Package Financings
Cochran Baker serves as disclosure counsel and bond counsel to governmental entities issuing taxable ”Build America Bonds” issued pursuant to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.