Judd M. Treeman

Experience

Judd was the lead real estate counsel for a Fortune 200- and NYSE-listed client in a nine-figure acquisition featuring multiple future development site assets in Texas' Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale.

He was the lead counsel for a Fortune 5-listed private company in restructuring a nine-figure private activity bond transaction for an industrial project in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Judd was lead counsel representing a fulfillment center tenant in obtaining a nine-figure abatement incentive.

He represented the lead project company in a $900 million P3 venture to build a 142-mile municipal water supply pipeline in central Texas.

Judd also represented the seller in a real estate sale to a national chain food and service store in Independence, Missouri.

He represented multiple manufacturing and logistics firms in acquisition plan and office facilities in and around Kansas City, in both Missouri and Kansas.

Judd represented a Kansas City-based nonprofit in its acquisition of world headquarters.

He also represented a faith-based national health system in disputes over technology and institutional integrity arising from asset purchase of multiple hospital and care centers, including litigation to dismissal of adversaries' claims.

Judd successfully represented national environmental remediation firm in several federal and state class actions, including litigation to dismissal of adversaries' claims.

He successfully represented a client in defending beneficial municipal ordinance against charge of unconstitutionality, including litigation to dismissal of adversaries' claims.

Judd has achieved dozens of litigation victories and defenses for trials and appeals across the country, including claims involving trade secrets, fiduciary duty, corporate governance, antitrust, noncompetition, restrictive covenants, royalty obligations, product liability, business torts, real estate actions and lease disputes, bankruptcy litigation and consumer litigation defense.

He had second-chair responsibilities for a six-week, complex commercial real estate trial with an eight-figure amount at issue for a NYSE-listed client in Houston, Texas.

Judd won mandate from the Texas Supreme Court upholding adoptive parents' rights to care for toddler who suffered from severe abuse and neglect.

Judd grew up in a real estate family. His parents' business is a large-complex, urban, multifamily and mixed-use development and management company, with more than 25 years of project successes in markets like Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Phoenix and Tulsa. His brother is a land use attorney, and his step brothers are both successful brokers.

He was a judicial intern for the Hon. Paul W. Bonapfel, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Judd contributes significantly to pro bono service as Special Outside Counsel to the Marlborough Community Coalition, helping to sustain this diverse and historic Kansas City community.

News

Speaking Engagements

Working with the Community and State/Local Government Agencies and Boards," National Business Institute, November 2018

"Conducting Title and Other Due Diligence," National Business Institute, November 2018

"Drafting/Negotiating Transaction and Construction Documents," National Business Institute, November 2018

"Indemnification, Limitation of Liability and Insurance: Strategically Negotiating Risk," National Business Institute, November 2016

"Using LLC's to Purchase Real Estate," National Business Institute, June 2016

"Preventing and Handling Disputes in the LLC," National Business Institute, June 2016

"Common Contract Disputes and Drafting Tips for Avoiding Them," National Business Institute, May 2014