TamaronHouston

Partner

"I help my clients build and shape cities for future generations. If clients want to buy, build, finance, franchise, or lease dirt or buildings, send them my way."


More About Tamaron

Commercial real estate transactions require responsive and agile counsel. As a partner in one of the top 5 real estate practices in the US, clients turn to Tamaron to help them navigate complex transactions and decisions efficiently, across offices and practices. She partners with them on a wide range of matters, including commercial mortgage loan originations, securitizations, acquisitions, and dispositions of raw land, commercial real estate, hotels, and multifamily real property.

Tamaron represents clients including (but not limited to) banks, life companies, developers, national retailers, special servicers, start-ups and technology companies.

She represents lenders in connection with CMBS financings, multi-state mortgage loan portfolios, and master and special servicers on distressed assets, remedies, and workouts. In defaulted loans and workouts, she advises servicers and borrowers on forbearance and settlement agreements, loan modifications, restructuring, foreclosures, and deed-in-lieu agreements.

Clients engaged in acquisitions and dispositions of real property, including technology companies and start-ups turn to Tamaron for guidance. She counsels her technology clients in connection with site acquisition and construction matters and other ground-up development issues unique to data centers, including, without limitation, energy connections, utility supply agreements and land use planning.

Having started her career in Texas, a major Energy hub, Tamaron has and continues to represent clients in energy related industries, including the acquisition and disposition of oil and gas facilities and dealings with regulatory agencies related to entity acquisitions, and advises clients on lien and security matters common to oil and gas properties and investments.

Throughout her legal career, Tamaron has committed to empowering others. She is national co-chair of the firm's Diversity & Inclusion Action Team. Since 2012, Tamaron has also chaired the Spelman and Morehouse Internship Program, which provides undergraduate students who are interested in attending law school with an opportunity to gain practical law-firm experience working at Seyfarth. She is also a member of Seyfarth's Lawyer Development Committee.

While in law school at the University of Virginia, Tamaron clerked for the NAACP legal department in Houston, Texas during Hurricane Katrina, helping evacuees with landlord and tenant disputes, wrongful evictions, and foreclosure matters.

Tamaron uses Seyfarth's Lean Six Sigma approach and unique technology tools in her everyday practice. These tools are an integrated and integral part of the way she handles and staffs transactions.

"I love that no deal is identical to another, and I enjoy helping my clients solve problems."
  • JD, University of Virginia School of Law

    Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal, contributing editor
    Women of Color president
    NAACP Legal Clerk

  • BA, Duke University

    Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Duke Study Abroad Program

  • The University of Nottingham School of Law
    International banking and finance
  • Georgia
  • Texas