Future of The Galleria, Uptown, & Greenway Plaza

Michael Garreffa’s career has spanned over 20 years where he has held key leadership positions in Media, Advertising & Technology gained primarily with large global corporates such as: HARMAN International, Mood Media, Viacom | MTV International and J.Walter Thompson. Presently he is Head of Retail Alliances EMEA with HARMAN Professional Solutions focusing on global brands. Harman Professional Solutions brings together their market leading brands in audio, lighting, video and control to create the best end-to-end solutions for our enterprise customers all over the world.

Patrick is the firm's Co-Managing Shareholder. His practice focuses on commercial real estate, and assisting clients in acquiring, disposing, capitalizing and forming companies. Patrick’s real estate practice covers all aspects of commercial real estate, including acquisition, development, capitalizing, financing, leasing and disposition of all product types of commercial real estate. His corporate/commercial practice centers on the formation and restructuring of commercial entities, including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, as well as the acquisition, capitalization, financing and disposition of business enterprises, the preparation of various contracts and agreements, and the representation of clients in their ongoing business activities. PRACTICE EMPHASIS: Commercial real estate; mergers and acquisitions; corporate/commercial transactions EDUCATION: J.D., Texas Tech University, 1996 B.B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1993 ADMITTED: State Bar of Texas Professional Recognition: “Texas Super Lawyer,” Texas Monthly, 2013 – 2016 “Texas Rising Star,” Texas Monthly, 2005 – 2012 Houston Business Journal Deal of the Year, Residential Real Estate – 2015 Houston Business Journal Deal of the Year, Education – 2016 Affiliations: Houston Bar Association, Real Estate and Mergers & Acquisitions Sections National Association of Industrial & Office Properties (NAIOP) Houston Realty Business Coalition ABA Business Law Section (Member, Mergers and Acquisitions Subcommittee) Urban Land Institute (ULI) Speeches and Publications: “Parents Beware! Think Twice Before Co-Signing Your Child’s Apartment Lease,” AM Law Alert, January 2017 CRE Panelist, CoreNET Young Leaders Mentor Program, Rice University, February 2012 “Game Changer… Chapter 64 of the Texas Property Code,” Bisnow Report, August 2011 “Successful Real Estate Workouts… Do They Exist,” Gainer Donnelly & Desroches Roundtable Forum, July 2011 “New Texas Law to Adversely Impact Real Estate Owners, Tenants,” CityBiz Houston, July 2011 “Eye on Houston: Rise in Traditional Commercial Real Estate Transactions,” CityBiz Houston, October 2010 “Borrowers Beware: Are ‘Securitized’ Loans Really Nonrecourse?” Texas Lawyer Magazine, March 15, 2004 (co-author) Representative Experience: · Represented management in connection with the acquisition of a division that is a value-added distribution of cathodic protection products used in the control and monitoring of corrosion on metallic structures across the upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas segments, and in the municipal and utility sectors. · Represented the sellers of approximately 306 acres of land in southwest Houston to The University of Texas. The sale was named by Houston Business Journal as HBJ’s Deal of the Year winner for Education in 2016. · Represented DC Partners in connection with the development and financing (including equity financing through the EB-5 program) of Astoria, Arabella and Marlowe, three high-rise condominiums in Houston, Texas. The Arabella project was named by Houston Business Journal as HBJ’s Deal of the Year winner for Residential Real Estate in 2015. · Represented the owners of Montgomery Machine Company, a Houston-based company that combines machining and proprietary cladding technology and services to manufacture high-specification components for the offshore capital equipment industry, so a subsidiary of Oil States International, Inc. · Represented several commercial real estate owners in connection with refinancing their existing loans with CMBS loans. · Represented a Houston-based real estate firm in connection with the development, acquisition and disposition of student-housing and multi-family projects across United States. · Represented a Woodlands-based developer with the development and financing of four shopping centers comprising 250,000 sf in the aggregate.

Dennis Murphree is the Managing Partner of Murphree Venture Partners (venture capital funds); The Southern Funds Group (venture capital and private equity partnerships); Murphree and Company (commercial real estate development); and is a partner in an MBE real estate development firm, Paul Alexander Company. He got his BA in Economics from Southern Methodist University and his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduation from Wharton, he entered the real estate industry in May 1971 and started his own firm, The Murphree Company, in December 1972. By 1985, that firm was the 11th largest commercial developer in the U.S. and did $600 million in new construction that year throughout 13 cities. In 1975, Dennis began doing venture capital deals as well, starting with 8 commercial bank start-ups between 1975 and 1980. By 1986, he had done 23 VC deals including the restaurants Cafe Annie and Cafe Express. In late 1986, he sold his real estate operations and began VC work full time in January 1987. Over the years, his firm has financed 109 portfolio companies through 7 venture capital funds and over 20 separate partnerships. In 2013, he re-entered the real estate field with Murphree and Company and is developing numerous commercial projects throughout the Houston region including the 15 story office tower, 1885 St. James Place, which was completed in May 2016. He did that building with his former partner, Dennis W. Nelson and their two sons. He continues to do venture capital through The Southern Funds Group with his business partner, John D. White. Dennis is a 32 year professor and taught "Investment Management" to seniors at the University of St. Thomas for six years. For the last 26 years he has been on the faculty of the Jones Graduate School at Rice University where he teaches two second year MBA courses: "Creative Entrepreneurship" and "Venture Capital". He has served on over 60 corporate boards in his career, both private and public, and has served on numerous civic, charitable and educational boards including Southern Methodist University; the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; and he is the current chairman of the board at Texas A&M University - Galveston. An active public speaker, Dennis speaks all over the U.S. every month on business and motivational topics. He and his wife, Penny, have two children and two grandsons.

Dennis W. Nelson is currently the president and C. E. O. of Mission Management Company, Mission Asset Marketing, and Mission Equities GP, LLC. Collectively these companies operate as The Mission Companies. He founded this group of companies in October 1986 to provide an array of real estate services to a diversified list of property owners. Commercial property management services are provided to owners of office buildings, retail centers, medical facilities, and industrial properties by Mission Management Company. Mission Asset Marketing, Inc., handles leasing and brokerage services for property owners, as well as tenants needing assistance in their corporate relocations. Mission Equities GP, LLC provides development and acquisition services for investors looking to develop, acquire or dispose of income producing properties. The majority of the companies' efforts over the last twenty years have included the acquisition and development of projects for their own account. Dennis graduated from The University of Texas in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering. In 1974 he received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. Immediately following graduation, he went to work for Fish Engineering and Construction Company, as a construction engineer. He was assigned to the construction division of the company assisting in the construction of petrochemical refineries for companies like Hunt Oil, Phillips Petroleum and Shell Oil. In 1977, he was recruited by Dennis Murphree to enter the commercial real estate industry with The Murphree Company, where he rose to become Region Partner in charge of all development projects in Houston and South Texas. Responsibilities included site selection, economic feasibility, procurement of anchor tenants, financing, design, construction and on-going management and leasing of all projects acquired and/or developed by the company in the southern region of Texas. During that period, the company grew from a small Houston-based real estate company to a one of the largest commercial development companies in the South. In 1986, when Dennis Murphree left the real estate business, Dennis Nelson set up his own companies to continue to develop and invest in commercial real estate projects. In 1992, The Mission Companies started to specialize and focus their efforts in the acquisition and development of medical office buildings. Medical office buildings currently make up a significant portion of the company’s real estate holdings and will continue to provide future growth opportunities. Over the last couple of years the company has expanded both through acquisitions of office buildings, as well as the development of new corporate buildings. Today the company owns &/or manages over 1,000,000 sf of medical and office buildings in the Houston area. In addition to being involved with many industry organizations such as Urban Land Institute (ULI), Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), Institute for Real Estate Management (IREM); Dennis is very active in many charitable organizations, including Coalition for the Homeless of Houston, Houston Golf Association, St Joseph Community Development Board, West Houston Young Life Committee, Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce and Greater Fort Bend Economic Development Council. Dennis is also active in his church, Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, where he has served as confirmation teacher, past chairman of the Board of Deacons, Treasurer of the Session and currently an Elder on the Personnel Committee of Session. He is also a small group fellowship leader.