Reed represents sponsors, developers, borrowers, and family offices in commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures across multifamily, build-to-rent, retail, and land. He also handles the financings behind them—whether agency, conventional, HUD, debt fund, or bridge. He has closed over $15 billion in transactions over his career.

A great deal of that work carries an affordable housing layer—HUD financed and project-based Section 8, 4% low-income housing tax credit developments financed with tax-exempt bonds, public facility corporation and housing finance corporation partnerships, and CHDO acquisitions of existing tax credit properties. Reed often serves as outside general counsel to single family offices and multifamily investment platforms, advising clients on a wide range of matters and ensuring their needs are met.

On the corporate side, he advises closely held companies and family enterprises on governance, entity structuring, and the transactions that come with generational wealth transfer, and he sits on boards of multinational private corporations and holding corporations, as well as non-profit charities serving the Dallas community.

Much of his work arrives by referral from other lawyers, frequently from national firms with Texas matters to place.

Education
  • Texas A&M University, B.A.
  • Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D.
Bar Admissions
  • State Bar of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Honors/Awards
  • Super Lawyers – Texas Rising Stars Attorney by Thomson Reuters, 2020-2026
Community Charitable & Professional Activities
  • Mary Kay, Inc., Board of Directors, 2025 – Present
  • Connecting Point Park Cities, Board of Directors, 2023 – Present; Advisory Board, Member, 2017-2022
  • Parish Episcopal School, Alumni Board, Member, 2023 – Present
Affiliations and Memberships
  • State Bar of Texas
    • TexasBarCLE Advanced Real Estate Law Course Planning Committee, Member, 2021-2024
    • Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section, Member, 2017-Present
    • Business Law Section, Member, 2017-Present
    • Corporate Counsel Section, Member, 2017-Present
    • Texas Young Lawyers Association, Member, 2017-Present
  • Texas Bar College, Member, 2018-2022
  • Dallas Bar Association, Member, 2017-Present
    • Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, Member, 2017-Present
  • American Bar Association, Member, 2017-Present
    • Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law Section, Member, 2017-Present
    • Business Law Section, Member, 2017-Present
Selected Publications
  • Presenter and Author for 59th Annual William W. Gibson, Jr. Mortgage Lending Institute, 2025
    • Presenter and Author for TexasBarCLE 2021 Real Estate 101 Course (Chapter 7):
      • Reed A. Standly, A Practical Guide to Borrower’s Real Estate Finance Opinions, 2021 Real Estate 101 Course, Chapter 7.
    • Presenter and Author for TexasBarCLE 2019 Advanced Real Estate Law Course (Chapter 13):
      • Reed A. Standly, A Peek Behind the Veil: The Ambiguous Status of Limited Liability Company Veil Piercing in Texas, 2019 Advanced Real Estate Law Course, Chapter 13, Part I.
      • Reed A. Standly, Selected Practical Drafting Considerations for Texas Limited Liability Company Agreements, 2019 Advanced Real Estate Law Course, Chapter 13, Part II.
    • Co-Author for TexasBarCLE 2018 Advanced Real Estate Law Course (Chapter 2; Presented by David W. Tomek):
      • David W. Tomek & Reed A. Standly, Important Whys, Whens, and Hows in the Use of Letters of Intent for Leasing and for Sales, Along with Illustrative Cases, 2018 Advanced Real Estate Law Course, Chapter 2.

Reed A. Standly

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