Kate Dewan Davy

Kate joined Stahl, Sewell, Chavarria, Friend & Cohen, LLP in 2024. Her practice focuses on commercial real estate transactions and on the real estate aspects of utility-scale solar, wind and battery energy storage projects. Kate assists clients in the acquisition, disposition, financing, development and leasing of commercial real estate. She also assists clients in all aspects of renewable energy development and the financing of utility scale projects including in the drafting and negotiation of wind, solar and storage leases, and in the review of title and survey matters.

Before joining the firm, Kate was a shareholder at an Austin-based law firm, where she represented clients in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions and in the review and negotiation of leases, purchase and sale agreements, option agreements, and easement agreements in connection with renewable energy projects. Prior to moving back to Austin, she worked as a real estate associate for a Dallas-based law firm where she was the lead associate in the sale of 55 apartment complexes located in Texas, Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Arkansas and Colorado to a newly formed joint venture between an investment bank and the selling company. The assets had a combined value in excess of $1.4 billion and included the assumption of existing financing as well as a new mezzanine loan.

Kate is a native Austinite and licensed to practice law in Texas. She attended Southern Methodist University where she received a BBA from the Cox School of Business. She graduated from St. Mary’s University School of Law, where she served as an Associate Editor of the St. Mary’s Law Journal and was the President of the Student Bar Association.