Kate Pennartz
Partner
Overview
Kate Pennartz is a real estate attorney in Holland & Knight's Dallas office. Ms. Pennartz practices in the area of real estate transactions, with a focus on representing clients in matters concerning the acquisition, construction, development, financing, leasing and disposition of various commercial properties, including office buildings, shopping centers, hotels and industrial sites, along with residential condominiums.
Ms. Pennartz helps clients in the origination and restructuring of acquisition and construction loans, mezzanine loans and private placements of debt and equity, as well as the formation and structuring of joint ventures and other investment vehicles for developers and institutional investors in real estate projects.
In addition, Ms. Pennartz advises corporate clients in mergers, acquisitions and corporate financings involving real estate components.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Pennartz worked for a full-service global law firm, where she served a key role in the Texas real estate practice.
Representative Experience
- Acted as Texas local counsel in a $475 million project financing facility for clean energy power sites located in Texas
- Representing a national retailer in ground leases across the U.S.
- Representing a real estate developer in the ground-up development of a retail shopping center located in Lexington, South Carolina
- Represented a national healthcare organization in lease negotiations for ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and organized system of care (OSC) space in Arizona and California
- Represented a foreign investor in the acquisition of an interest in the $128 million financing of a 173-unit luxury condominium development in Austin, Texas
- Represented a national developer in the acquisition, financing, leasing and disposition of retail and self-storage properties
- Represented a renewable energy company in a $69 million industrial warehouse development in Nevada
- Representing a Dallas-based real estate investment group in multifamily developments
- Represented a global chemicals business in a $1 billion cross-border transaction involving the purchase of chemical manufacturing business, multiple facilities and the negotiation of a 99-year ground lease in East Texas
- Represented a publicly traded energy company in a $350 million refinance of its U.S. real estate assets
- Represented an institutional real estate fund in connection with the acquisition of shopping centers in Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois
- Represented a major financial institution in a $28 million construction loan for a 222-room hotel in Atlanta
- Represented a landlord in leasing of 114,323 square feet of office space in Phoenix
- Represented a developer in connection with the structuring of a mixed-use (hotel, retail and apartment) master condominium development located in downtown Dallas
- Represented a major Asian hotel group in the debt financing of a full‐service hotel located on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu
- Represented a major Asian hotel group in the debt financing of a luxury hotel in San Francisco
- Represented a national wireless retailer in the acquisition of a portfolio of real estate assets and general leasing matters
- Represented a financial institution in the acquisition of various bank branches as a result of a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) mandatory divesture
Credentials
- Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D., cum laude
- The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., cum laude
- Texas
- The University of Texas at Austin Real Estate Council (REC), Advisory Member, 2021-Present
- Attorneys Serving the Community, 2025
- Dallas Bar Association, 2013-Present
- The Best Lawyers in America guide, Dallas Real Estate Law Ones to Watch, 2021-2025