About Clifton D. Beech

Clifton Beech is an experienced commercial real estate attorney who advises clients on complex real estate transactions, with a particular focus on acquisitions, joint ventures, and preferred equity arrangements. He also represents investors and developers in a wide range of matters, including dispositions, financings, development deals, and mergers and acquisitions involving real estate assets and real estate-related businesses. Clifton structures private equity and joint venture deals to support acquisitions and investments.

A significant portion of Clifton’s practice involves data center transactions. He has represented clients across the full asset life cycle, including site acquisition, permitting and power procurement, joint venture formation, financing, development and construction, commissioning, leasing, and disposition.

Clifton’s experience also spans multifamily, commercial, and industrial assets throughout the United States.

During law school, Clifton served as an editor and reporter for the International Law Review Association.

Outside the Firm

Clifton enjoys spending his free time restoring classic cars and playing tennis.

Experience

Data Centers:

  • Representation of a developer in connection with development and sale of multi-phase, multibillion-dollar data center in Indiana.
  • Representation of a client in connection with a one-billion-dollar joint-venture, financing, and development of data centers in Dallas and Houston, Texas.
  • Representation of a client in connection with the $350-million development, financing, and leasing of a data center to hyperscaler tenant.
  • Representation of a client in connection with the formation of a joint venture targeting three billion dollars in new data center developments across North America.
  • Representation of a client in connection with a $500-million development, financing, and disposition of a data center campus.
  • Representation of a client in connection with the formation of a joint venture and development of a 150-MW hyperscale data center.
  • Representation of a client in the ground lease, development, and leasing of data centers at Dallas Fort Worth and Houston airports.
  • Representation of large financial institution in connection with multiple data center financings throughout the United States.

Other Representations:

  • Representation of a developer in a partnership with an institutional investor in the development, financing, and equity raise for a 400-unit, 30-story luxury residential rental development in Dallas, Texas.
  • Representation of a REIT in the sale of a multifamily portfolio consisting of over 10,000 units across 12 states for over two billion dollars.
  • Representation of a developer in the formation of a joint venture, acquisition of land, financing, and development of a one-billion-dollar build-to-suit corporate headquarters property.
  • Representation of a purchaser in the portfolio acquisition and financing of 14 healthcare facilities in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
  • Representation of a real estate operator in the formation of a joint venture and subsequent acquisition of a $175-million hotel portfolio.
  • Representation of a real estate investment group as the developer in the acquisition of a site for a build-to-suit lease of an approximately 300,000 square foot industrial building at an international airport.

Memberships

  • Texas Real Estate Council
  • NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association

Professional Activities

Clifton serves as a member of the Texas Real Estate Council and Commercial Real Estate Development Association.

Bar Admissions

  • Texas

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court - Northern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Texas

Education

  • Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law, JD, cum laude
  • Texas Tech University, BA, with honors