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By Brooks Igo
Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook
Partner Marc Epstein and senior counsel Sean Bryan and Randall Quick joined Akin Gump’s real estate practice in Fort Worth last month from Kelly, Hart & Hallman. Epstein said the opportunity to join a firm with the breadth of experience of Akin Gump will allow his team to better serve the needs of its clients.
“We hope to utilize the wider range of talent and experience of Akin Gump’s lawyers to provide a broader menu of services to our clients, reducing the need to seek specialized counsel from other firms,” he said. “The result should be a better, more integrated and efficient product for our clients.”
The Texas Tech University School of Law graduate says the rapid growth of investments in both data centers and assisted living facilities is a current trend he and his clients will be addressing for the next year or so.
“Such investments cover opposite ends of current society – the aging of America versus the rapid evolution of technology,” he said.
As his clients face increasing pressure to return a significant profit on their investment, Epstein says the biggest legal challenge his team faces is to continue to provide added value to their projects. He wants his team’s legal services to be viewed as added value, not overhead.
One of the biggest deals of Epstein’s career was his representation of Iron Point Partners during the formation of two diversified multi-platform real estate funds in excess of $1 billion, which continued the long history of real estate investing of the Robert Bass family office. Epstein says he has been involved with the Robert Bass real estate team since 1988.
The new Akin Gump partner says he has historically been involved with local non-profit organizations in the development and construction of museums, performing arts halls and similar community-oriented facilities, and hopes to continue those efforts at the firm. He is also involved with the Urban Land Institute and is a Texas Bar Foundation Fellow.
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