Heather Sutton focuses her practice on commercial real estate and infrastructure development. She advises real estate funds, private equity firms, developers, joint ventures and financial institutions on complex projects across the full development cycle, including acquisitions and dispositions, borrower and lender-side financing, design and construction contracts, leasing and management agreements.
Heather also has deep experience in the energy and natural resources space, where she has negotiated oil and gas leases, surface use agreements and regulatory permits on tribal, federal and state lands. She has counseled operators across the Southwest and Northern Plains, including on environmental and permitting issues tied to facility development. She has a particular focus on the infrastructure sector and routinely advises on other related matters, including energy.
Education
- St. Mary's University School of Law (J.D., 2009)
- Texas Tech University (B.B.A., 2006)
Bar Admission
- New Mexico
- Texas
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
