Kelly Depew Metz

Kelly Depew Metz is a real estate attorney in Holland & Knight's Austin office. Ms. Metz handles a wide range of commercial real estate matters as counsel for landlords, tenants, institutional investors, insurance companies, asset managers, lenders, financial institutions and developers in connection with sophisticated and voluminous real estate leasing and acquisition transactions. Ms. Metz prides herself on assisting her clients with a wealth of knowledge, efficiency and organization to address their matters.

Ms. Metz represents global, national and regional owners and tenants acquiring, financing, developing, managing and leasing projects across the United States, including retail centers (luxury, enclosed malls, urban, neighborhood, big box, restaurants and outparcels), hotels and resorts, office buildings, apartment and condo communities, mixed-use developments, warehouses, industrial parks, healthcare facilities and build-to-suit properties.

In addition to her commercial real practice, Ms. Metz has guided clients through their purchases and sales of horse ranching and boarding facilities. She has raised, trained and shown quarter horses at the championship level at 4-H, American Quarter Horse Association, Palomino Horse Breeders Association and National Reining Horse Association events in Texas and throughout the U.S., with a focus on reining and western horsemanship. Ms. Metz's equine experience enables her to assist clients with their farm and ranching real estate needs.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Metz was an attorney in the San Antonio office of a prominent national law firm focusing on complex real estate transactions.