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2025 Lawyers in Real Estate Awards

Texas
By: Amy Wolff Sorter

Doug Yeager

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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Represented client in a $428-million, 53-industrial property sale

Served as counsel in drafting an Easement Agreement for a solar farm

Sheppard, Mullin Partner Doug Yeager has advised some of the country’s largest and most sophisticated players in the commercial real estate industry for the past three decades. His national practice involves leases, acquisitions and dispositions. Yeager also works with energy companies, oilfield service companies, midstream companies and other energy industry clients with their real estate transactions.

Recent matters include representing Stonelake Capital Partners in its $428-million sale of 53 industrial properties to Brookfield Asset Management. Yeager also advised Stonelake Capital on its $124-million sale of a Texas-based industrial portfolio to Invesco Advisors, Inc. Other representative matters include serving as counsel to Hecate Energy Cereza LLC in its Easement Agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy for a one-gigawatt solar project in Washington State.

Yeager is recognized by leading legal publications, including Chambers USA and Legal 500. He is a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, an active member of the Houston Real Estate Lawyers Council, and previously served on the Governing Council for the State Bar of Texas’s Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Section.

These are some of the reasons why Doug Yeager received Connect CRE’s 2025 Texas Lawyers in Real Estate Award. The award celebrates real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their practice and the larger community.

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About Amy Wolff Sorter

I love content. I love writing it, visualizing it, and manipulating it to fit into different formats. I have years of experience in working with content, both as creator and editor. The content I create and edit provides assistance with many goals, ranging from lead generation, to developing street cred through well-timed thought-leadership pieces. Content skills include, but aren't limited to, articles and blogs, e-mails, promotional collateral, infographics, e-books and white papers, website copy and more.
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