Greta Goldsby
Director of Real Estate Transactions / attorney
Greta joined Drenner Group in 2015 to chair the Firm’s transactional practice. Prior to joining Drenner Group, Greta was a shareholder with a Texas national law firm. Greta has over twenty years of experience representing commercial real estate developers, owners, investors, operators, and lenders. With extensive knowledge of the Central Texas development and finance market, community, and process, Greta’s goal is to make her client’s experience as efficient and cost-effective as possible.
Representative Experience includes:
- Acquisitions and Dispositions: Representation of developers, institutional investors, REITs, and other clients in the acquisition and disposition of all asset classes of commercial real estate and land development (including office buildings, hotels, multi-family projects, mixed-use projects, single-family residential projects, and healthcare real estate facilities) with an emphasis on the related debt and equity structuring for institutional real estate investors and developers and procuring entitlements.
- Development: Representation of developers of multifamily projects, healthcare facilities, assisted living facilities, data centers, and office projects in all stages of development, including acquisition, debt and equity financing, construction, leasing, and disposition.
- Project Finance: Representation of developers in connection with the procurement of governmental and quasi-governmental incentives, including 380 development agreements, tax increment reinvestment zones, public/private partnerships, public finance corporation transactions, and other similar incentives to finance infrastructure associated with commercial real estate projects.
- Leasing: Representation of landlords and tenants in office, retail, and industrial projects, including development ground leases, medical office building leases, subleases, and workout issues relating to leasing.
- Financing (Lender): Representation of financial institutions in making construction, permanent, and other loans secured by real estate of all asset classes, including sporting facilities, including mezzanine financing arrangements. Representation also includes handling complex loan workouts, foreclosures, modifications, and restructurings of existing loans.
- Financing (Borrower): Representation of borrowers in permanent and construction loan transactions secured by real estate of all asset classes, including hotel convention and conference centers, multifamily, office, and retail including loan modifications, restructuring, and assumptions, including CMBS loan transactions.
Professional Certifications and Affiliations
- State Bar of Texas (Member, Austin Bar Real Estate Section)
- District of Columbia Bar (Real Estate, Housing and Land Use Section)
- NAIOP, founding Board Member of the Austin Chapter
- Real Estate Council of Austin
- Leadership Development Council (2012)
- Co-Chair Membership Committee
- Board Member
- Co-Chair Leadership Development Class Oversight Committee
- Executive Committee
- Texas Bar CLE – Advanced Real Estate Drafting Steering Committee (2015)
- RECA Executive Committee
- ATXelerator® Board and Founding Member
- City of Austin Task Force on Institutional Racism and Social Inequities
- CREW (Washington D.C.); Membership Co-Chair
- American Heart Association, Circle of Red Member
- Boy Scouts of America, Board Member Capital Area Council
Professional Recognition or Honors
- State Bar of Texas Council — Real Estate, Probate & Trust Section
- Member of the 2019 ATXelerator® Class
- Stephen F. Austin High School, Academy of Global Studies
- Best Lawyers in America — Real Estate Law
- Best Lawyers in America’s Women in Law issue
- Texas Rising Star 2013
Education
- Doctor of Jurisprudence — Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University
- Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, French and European Studies — University of Arkansas
