JT structures and closes commercial real estate transactions — commercial leasing, energy and infrastructure development, multi-jurisdictional entity structuring, and acquisition work — for landlords, developers, and institutional clients, pairing sophisticated deal structuring with direct, attentive service.
Education and Licensure
- J.D., Oklahoma City University School of Law, 2020 — Merit Scholar
- B.A., Political Science, East Central University — Dean’s List; President’s List
- Executive Education, University of Oklahoma Price College of Business
- Licensed, State of Oklahoma (2020) and State of Texas (2026)
- Admitted, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
- Certified Contract Advisor, National Football League Players Association (NFLPA)
Professional Profile
JT Stevenson is a commercial real estate attorney who structures and closes transactions for developers, investors, landowners, landlords, and the operating companies behind them. His work runs the full arc of a deal — LOI and term sheet, due diligence and title, purchase and financing documents, closing — across retail, office, industrial, and energy-infrastructure assets, with aggregate transaction value exceeding $38 million over six years of practice.
His most complex work sits where a project is being built on ground his client owns. JT structures lease-option-to-purchase agreements supporting utility-scale energy and battery-storage development, negotiating opposite national developers and their counsel, and has used market comparables and collaboration with industry professionals to move overall economic terms by as much as 18%. He negotiates build-to-suit leases for banking and corporate tenants, converting tenant-drafted proposals into landlord-protective agreements carrying fifteen-year-plus terms and renewal options. Around those deals he drafts the instruments that make a project function on the ground — ground leases, easements, estoppel certificates, CAM provisions, work letters, subordination and transfer consents, assignments, and renewals — from initial terms through execution.
JT also structures multi-jurisdictional entity arrangements for clients holding property across state lines, separating ownership, management, and liability to support asset protection and long-term business strategy. For national property management groups and corporate landlords, he advises at the portfolio level, keeping leases, forms, and policies current with state landlord-tenant law and federal regulation across multi-state operations.
Clients keep him engaged past closing. Several corporate and individual clients retain him as outside general counsel on deal structure, legal risk, and business strategy well beyond any single matter — work that depends as much on reading market terms as legal ones, and on moving a transaction efficiently across brokers, lenders, title companies, and opposing counsel.
Representative Matters
- Utility-scale energy and battery-storage lease-option-to-purchase transactions exceeding $17.5 million in aggregate value
- Build-to-suit lease negotiation for banking and corporate tenants, restructured from tenant-favorable drafts to landlord-protective terms
- Full-cycle acquisitions, dispositions, and development transactions, including due diligence, title review, purchase agreements, and financing documents
- Multi-property title resolution for a private real estate investor
- Portfolio-level leasing and regulatory compliance advisory for national property management companies operating across multiple states
- Multi-jurisdictional entity formation and structuring for asset protection
Personal Profile
JT is an Oklahoma transplant by way of Texas and a former Division 1 collegiate athlete with active interests in sports, real estate, and the long-term stewardship of property. His certification through the NFLPA as a contract advisor keeps him connected to professional athletics.
His approach to the practice is grounded in faith and oriented toward service — a philosophy captured in Colossians 3:23: “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.” He values practical results, for clients, colleagues, and family alike.