Attorney Profile

Terry L. Garrett has extensive experience in business law. She has handled corporate and commercial law issues from establishment and financing to business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Her corporate finance experience is unusually broad and has involved many cutting edge transactions both on and offshore. She has developed new private placement instruments and investment vehicles and been responsible for public offerings in the U.S., European, Japanese and global markets.

Ms. Garrett's real estate experience encompasses finance and investment, purchase and sale, development, construction and management agreements, and commercial leasing. She has guided a range of projects from hotel and resort construction to turnkey manufacturing, energy and infrastructure financings.

Over the course of her career she has represented most of the leading U.S. and Japanese investment and commercial banks, several Fortune 500 and equivalent East Asian multinationals, and a leading Japanese real estate developer in the U.S., Europe and the Pacific Rim.

Ms. Garrett earned her B.A. cum laude from Cornell University, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Columbia University. She also studied at Wharton Business School and at National Taiwan University.

Licensed to practice in Texas and New York, Ms. Garrett is a member of the American Bar Association Section on Business Law, the Real Estate Council of Austin and the American Society of International Law. She serves as Secretary of the Austin Bar Association Corporate and Tax Section.

Ms. Garrett practices law in Chinese and Japanese. She serves in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s China Intellectual Property Rights Advisory Program. She has written extensively about the legal and regulatory systems of East Asian countries and has been invited to lecture on Transpacific business law at local universities.

Ms. Garrett has been asked to teach entrepreneurs by the Small Business Administration and to serve as an arbitrator for the Council of Better Business Bureaus.