E. David

Coligado

Shareholder
500 N. Akard Street, Suite 4000
Dallas, TX 75201-6605

Overview

David currently serves as the Firm's CEO-elect, and most recently served as head of the Firm’s Real Estate Section. His practice focuses on the ownership, development and investment of commercial real estate, such as office, industrial, retail, and multifamily projects. David assists his clients through all phases of real estate ownership including acquisition, financing (construction and permanent), leasing, development and construction, formation of joint ventures, and dispositions. His clients range from entrepreneurial developers to institutional owners and investors to national tenants and landlords.

David approaches a project with the understanding that a complex transaction requires collaboration of many parties with a unified, focused goal, and a truly successful transaction can result in relationships that will lead to future successful deals. In order to foster such relationships, a thorough understanding of the deal, an open, direct and honest line of communication and an understanding of the big picture are all necessary in order for legal counsel to provide value to the project. A sense of humor also helps. 

David has served as the Firm’s Real Estate Section CLE/Training Coordinator. Before joining Munsch Hardt, David served as  in-house counsel with Archon Financial, L.P., now known as Goldman Sachs Commercial Mortgage Capital, L.P.

David and his wife Katie have two children, Gus and Lucy.

Education

Admission

Achievements

  • D CEO – Dallas 500 (2025)
  • D Magazine – Best Lawyers in Dallas (2015-2019, 2021-2024)
  • Thomson Reuters – Texas Super Lawyers (2019-2020, 2024)
  • Woodward/White, Inc. – Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law (2024-2025)
  • Memberships

    • Dallas Asian American Bar Association
    • Dallas Bar Association, Construction Law, Corporate Counsel and Real Property Law Sections
    • NAIOP, North Texas Chapter
    • State Bar of Texas, Business Law, Corporate Counsel and Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Sections
    • St. Thomas Aquinas Lawyers’ Association
    • ProVisors Dallas 4

Overview

David currently serves as the Firm's CEO-elect, and most recently served as head of the Firm’s Real Estate Section. His practice focuses on the ownership, development and investment of commercial real estate, such as office, industrial, retail, and multifamily projects. David assists his clients through all phases of real estate ownership including acquisition, financing (construction and permanent), leasing, development and construction, formation of joint ventures, and dispositions. His clients range from entrepreneurial developers to institutional owners and investors to national tenants and landlords.

David approaches a project with the understanding that a complex transaction requires collaboration of many parties with a unified, focused goal, and a truly successful transaction can result in relationships that will lead to future successful deals. In order to foster such relationships, a thorough understanding of the deal, an open, direct and honest line of communication and an understanding of the big picture are all necessary in order for legal counsel to provide value to the project. A sense of humor also helps. 

David has served as the Firm’s Real Estate Section CLE/Training Coordinator. Before joining Munsch Hardt, David served as  in-house counsel with Archon Financial, L.P., now known as Goldman Sachs Commercial Mortgage Capital, L.P.

David and his wife Katie have two children, Gus and Lucy.

Experience

  • Industrial Development

    Represented a real estate investment group, and its affiliates, as the developer in the acquisition of a site for a build-to-suit lease of an approximately 300,000 square foot

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  • Office Acquisition + Leasing

    Represented a real estate investment firm in the purchase, financing and contemporaneous leasing of three buildings of a four building office complex in Richardson

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  • Retail Center Investment

    Represented a real estate investor in the investment of a Class A mixed used retail lifestyle center, including negotiation of the joint venture agreement with the developer.

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