Construction Contracts Attorney - Yvonne Nguyen
Yvonne N. Nguyen specializes in construction law, focusing on drafting, negotiating, and advising on complex construction and commercial contracts. With extensive experience, Yvonne provides strategic counsel to developers, architects, engineers, consultants, general contractors, construction managers, subcontractors, and suppliers in both the private and public sectors. Her expertise spans the entire project lifecycle, including risk analysis and mitigation related to scopes of work, professional design services, construction defects, payment disputes, delays, liens, bonds, warranties, change orders, compliance, insurance, limitation of liability, damages, default, termination, and dispute resolution mechanisms.
In addition to construction matters, Yvonne has experience in commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, and leasing. Her diverse portfolio includes drafting and negotiating retail, commercial, and industrial lease agreements for various sectors.
A native Houstonian, Yvonne is fluent in Vietnamese and leverages her multicultural background to provide nuanced and effective legal solutions to a diverse clientele.
- Construction Transactional
- Commercial Real Estate
- Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern and Northern Districts of Texas
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- Represented a general contractor in the construction of a $12 billion prime multi-family development project.
- Advised joint venture developers, general contractors, and subcontractors on public airport development projects in Houston and Dallas, Texas.
- Counseled public facility corporations in constructing affordable housing projects under the Public Facility Corporation Act.
- Assisted a developer in the multi-million-dollar development of prefabricated car wash tunnel buildings across Texas.
- Guided a local county through the $140 million development of a 210,000-sf public convention center.
- Represented various developers and contractors in constructing large waterparks, luxury high-rise condominiums, custom swimming pools, and other major commercial projects.
- Assisted a developer and construction management company in the construction and management of multiple self-storage facilities nationwide.
- Advised subcontractors and vendors on supplying steel and fabricating pre-engineered metal building systems for warehouse construction for a South Korean multinational conglomerate.
- Represented a subcontractor in constructing a significant military water storage tank in the central Pacific Ocean.
- Drafted master service agreements for developers, contractors, and designers for large commercial projects, multi-family apartment buildings, and custom luxury residential projects.
- Counseled a medical imaging facility in its disposition.
- Advised a global South Korean coffee franchise on its area development and franchising expansion in Texas.
- Supported an Arkansas-based independent contract chicken farmer in the $6 million development of a chicken farm for an international production company.
- Drafted and negotiated lease agreements for interior design firms, restauranteurs, hair and nail salons, medical imaging facilities, and other commercial tenants.
- South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas
- J.D. – 2019
- Journal of International Economic Law, Articles Editor
- Thomas Tang Moot Court (National and Regional Semi-Finalist, Best-Brief Award)
- University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
- State Bar of Texas, Construction Law Section
- Houston Bar Association, Construction Law Section
- Asian American Bar Association
- Commercial Real Estate Women Scholarship Committee
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“Is Real Estate Fraud the Least of Your Worries? A Panel on Recent Fraud Schemes,” Texas Land Title Institute, December 2020
