Jonetta L. Brooks
Partner
Overview
Jonetta Brooks is a real estate attorney in Holland & Knight's Dallas office, where her practice focuses on commercial leasing and asset management matters. Ms. Brooks counsels special servicers, pension fund advisors, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and corporate and other institutional property owners, together with receivers, bankruptcy trustees, developers and small business owners, in all aspects of real estate transactions, including without limitation, asset management matters, property acquisition and disposition, sale/leaseback, foreclosure and commercial leasing.
Ms. Brooks has more than 36 years of experience representing a diverse mix of national and regional landlords and tenants in leases and other real property matters across the country involving shopping centers, malls, office and industrial buildings, and build-to-suit properties.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Brooks was a partner in the Dallas office of a prominent global law firm. Ms. Brooks also served as regional counsel for a REIT, where she was responsible for leasing functions and other ownership matters related to a large portfolio of office properties, and worked in-house for a pension fund advisor handling property acquisition matters.
Representative Experience
Credentials
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., with honors
- Texas A&M University-Commerce, B.A., with special distinction
- Texas
- Texas Supreme Court
- Dallas Bar Association, Real Property Law Section, 1988-2023
- P.E.O. International, Chapter DJ, President, 2010, 2016, 2023; Vice President, 2007, 2022; Corresponding Secretary, 2013, 2015 and Recording Secretary, 2008, 2024
- Outstanding Services Award, American Bar Association Military Pro Bono Project, 2018, 2020
- Holland & Knight Pro Bono All-Star, 2020, 2021