Raymond Kane, a founding director of the Firm, practices in the Real Estate, Business & Corporate, Financial Services, and Distressed Assets Practice Areas.
He concentrates his practice on real estate, lending, corporate, and federal taxation matters, with a particular emphasis on leasing transactions and construction matters in all phases of the development of commercial properties, including specifically project and tenant leasing for office, industrial, mixed-use and retail projects. He principally represents developers, tenants, lenders, and operators in all aspects of real estate development transactions—covering land use, planning, construction, and financing aspects—along with advising developers, lenders, operators, landlords, and tenants in retail, office, hospitality, mixed-use, and industrial leasing transactions.
Raymond also has extensive experience in the formation and operation of commercial and residential condominiums, transactions involving credit tenant leases, ground leases and tenancy-in-common ownership structures, as well as the restructuring of troubled leases, projects and related indebtedness. He also has substantial experience in the formation, development and operation of Clean Water Act mitigation banks. He also provides guidance with respect to federal tax considerations affecting real estate acquisitions, leasing, lending and disposition transactions.
In addition to his legal practice, Raymond is a frequent presenter on real estate and business law topics and remains actively involved in the professional and civic community, including previously serving as an adjunct professor of law at Southern Methodist University.
Most recently, Mr. Kane gave presentations at the State Bar of Texas 2024 Advanced Real Estate Strategies Course (Complex Leasing Issues), the State Bar of Texas 2025 Advanced Real Estate Drafting Course (Drafting Declarations for Mixed-Use Projects), and the 2025 University of Texas Bernard O. Dow Leasing Institute (Complex Lease and Development Issues in Mixed-Use Projects).
Raymond earned BBA and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Oklahoma, and a Master of Laws in Taxation from Southern Methodist University.
Credentials
Bar Admissions
- State Bar of Texas (1983)
Education
- University of Oklahoma, J.D., 1983
- Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, L.L.M. in Taxation, 1988
- University of Oklahoma, B.B.A., 1980
Honors
- AV Preeminent®, Martindale Hubbell
- The Best Lawyers in America® (2012 - 2026)
- Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters (2003 - 2025)
- Best Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine, Commercial Real Estate (2013 - 2025)
- 2025 CRE Connect Lawyers in Real Estate
- Ranked in Chambers USA Guide, Real Estate Law (2010 - 2025)
- Identified by Corporate Counsel magazine’s annual survey of FORTUNE 500® companies as a Go-To Law Firm®, nominated by Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
- CRE 2020 Lawyers in Real Estate
- Dallas 500
- Business Today's Top 10 Most Influential Real Estate Lawyers in Texas (2023)
Publications
- Author, "Summary of the Impact on Commercial Real Estate of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990," Real Estate Investment Journal 43 (1992)
- Author, "Preservation of Leaseholds Following Well Failure," 36 Oklahoma Law Review 151 (1983)
Presentations
- Moderator, Development Challenges in North Texas' Boom Market: Navigating Through the Regulatory Maze - Trees to Transportation!, IOPC Panel Discussion, Urban Land Institute, Dallas, TX
- Moderator, Houston and Dallas Retail Development Summits, Bisnow
- Moderator, 2nd Annual DFW New Construction & Development Summit, Bisnow
- Speaker, Lease Accounting & Real Estate Law Changes You Need to be Aware of in 2011, Kinsman Equity Partners Investor Breakfast
- Panelist, Distressed Assets: Understanding the Opportunities & Challenges in Today’s Commercial Market, North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors and Real Estate Professionals
Associations
- Dallas Bar Association
- International Council of Shopping Centers
- NAIOP
- NTCAR
- The Real Estate Council
Community
- Adjunct Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University
- Member, Industrial Development Corporation Board, a City of Dallas sponsored board operating under the direction of the Mayor and City Council of Dallas, which was formed under the 1979 Texas Development Corporation Act for the purpose of promoting economic development in the southern portion of the City of Dallas through the issuance of private activity bonds.
