Hallett & Perrin PC

Cullen Aderhold represents domestic and foreign clients in a wide variety of commercial real estate, corporate, partnership, and other business transactions. His clients include owners, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, and brokers in connection with the acquisition, sale, development, financing, leasing, and operation of commercial real estate. He represents clients in the formation and restructuring of, and mergers and acquisitions of, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corpo...

Ms. Cowdrey’s practice focuses on transactions involving private equity funds. She represents PE sponsors, especially those focused on energy-related investments, in transactions involving the full life cycle of their funds, including fund structuring and formation, fund investments in portfolio companies, and the realization of portfolio investments through M&A transactions and other monetization events. Given her fluency with market fund terms, Ms. Cowdrey regularly advises instit...

Philip has a broad base of experience in complex real estate and corporate transactions. In a career spanning four decades, he has represented clients in connection with the acquisition, development, leasing, finance, and sale of a variety of large real estate projects in Texas and throughout the country. Philip regularly advises clients with respect to the formation and operation of development joint ventures and investment partnerships, and general corporate matters. He has negotiated hundr...

Leland’s experience cuts across many different industries, including financial institutions, investment funds, insurance agencies, and intermediaries, oil and gas exploration companies, oil field service companies, manufacturing companies, staffing companies, companies involved in construction, and professionals in a variety of fields. His vast experience includes contract disputes, shareholder and partner fights, breach of fiduciary duty claims, trademark, copyright and patent disputes...

Bruce Hallett’s practice is focused on corporate finance. He regularly represents publicly-held entities and private growth companies, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, financings, corporate governance and federal securities regulation compliance. Having previously practiced corporate and securities law with large firms in Chicago and Dallas, Bruce co-founded Hallett & Perrin in January 1992 with the objective of combining large law firm corporate finance experience and ...

Nicole’s litigation practice includes commercial litigation, ethics advice, state bar grievances, and alternative dispute resolution. She is dedicated to mentorship and enjoys providing young professionals with numerous development opportunities. Nicole is committed to educating future lawyers. She serves as an adjunct professor at UNT Dallas College of Law, teaching Deposition Skills, Strategies, and Techniques. For many years, she also lectured at the UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of...

Bob handles employment-related litigation and counseling matters throughout the United States. His primary areas of practice involve employment discrimination issues, employment contracts and separation agreements, employment-related personal injury claims such as defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent hiring, wage and hour issues, non-competition, non-solicitation, and non-hire agreements, employee health and safety issues, wrongful discharge and retaliation i...

Ed Perrin is a founding member of Hallett & Perrin, which was established in 1992. Ed has extensive experience in both state and federal courts in a range of complex litigation including D&O and other fiduciary matters. A substantial portion of Ed's practice involves his engagement as both trial and consulting counsel in ERISA and employee benefit disputes, representing fiduciaries, plans, trustees, administrators, participants and sponsoring companies. This is where Ed is recognized ...