- Best Lawyers®: Commercial Transactions / UCC Law (2025)
- Best Lawyers®: Real Estate Law (2012-present)
- 405 Magazine Top Attorney in Real Estate (2023)
Location:
Oklahoma City
Email:
chmurray@phillipsmurrah.com
Call:
405.235.4100 Main
405.606.4751 Direct
Fax:
405.235.4133
Service Areas:
Biography
Cindy Hastie Murray is a Director and a member of the Firm’s Real Estate and Land Use Practice Group. She is a transactional attorney who represents individuals as well as privately-held and public companies in a wide range of commercial real estate matters, including purchasing and selling commercial real estate and assisting both landlords and tenants in leasing matters.
While still in law school, Cindy co-authored The ABC’s of the UCC: Related and Supplementary Consumer Law, ABA 1999 with Professor Frederick H. Miller. After graduating law school, Cindy clerked for the late Justice Marian P. Opala at the Oklahoma Supreme Court prior to entering private practice.
Born in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and raised in the Oklahoma City area, Cindy lives in Norman with her family including several rescue cats and dogs. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her sons and family friends, listening to audio books, trying new recipes, cultivating potted plants, gardening and following Sooner sports.
Education
- University of Oklahoma (B.S., 1988; J.D., 1998)
Admissions
- 1998, Oklahoma
Professional Organizations
- Oklahoma County Bar Association
- Oklahoma Bar Association
- American Bar Association
Experience
- Significant experience in automobile dealership acquisition, sales, leasing and licensing in Oklahoma and Texas
- Acts as Oklahoma local counsel in complex multi-state lending transactions to both out-of-state counsel, lenders and borrowers advising about Oklahoma law for matters ranging from $10,000,000 to over $10,000,000,000
- Negotiate and prepare acquisition and sale documentation in commercial business transactions
- Represents buyers and sellers in a wide range of commercial real estate transactions including acquisition, financing, leasing and sales of office, retail, medical and residential development property
- Formation and organization of LLCs and corporations including advising clients on entity structure to preparation and revision of governing documents
- Represents financial institutions in multi-million dollar lending transactions
- Commercial real estate acquisitions, sale and leasing transactions for individuals and privately held and public companies
- Represents both lenders and borrowers in complex financings
- Negotiation and preparation of leases for a variety of commercial uses
Expertise
- Commercial real estate transactions for individuals and privately held and public companies
- Complex financings for both lenders and borrowers
- Automobile dealerships
- Entity formation
Recognition
Publications
Cindy Hastie Murray is a Director and a member of the Firm’s Real Estate and Land Use Practice Group. She is a transactional attorney who represents individuals as well as privately-held and public companies in a wide range of commercial real estate matters, including purchasing and selling commercial real estate and assisting both landlords and tenants in leasing matters.
While still in law school, Cindy co-authored The ABC’s of the UCC: Related and Supplementary Consumer Law, ABA 1999 with Professor Frederick H. Miller. After graduating law school, Cindy clerked for the late Justice Marian P. Opala at the Oklahoma Supreme Court prior to entering private practice.
Born in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and raised in the Oklahoma City area, Cindy lives in Norman with her family including several rescue cats and dogs. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her sons and family friends, listening to audio books, trying new recipes, cultivating potted plants, gardening and following Sooner sports.
- University of Oklahoma (B.S., 1988; J.D., 1998)
- 1998, Oklahoma
- Oklahoma County Bar Association
- Oklahoma Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Significant experience in automobile dealership acquisition, sales, leasing and licensing in Oklahoma and Texas
- Acts as Oklahoma local counsel in complex multi-state lending transactions to both out-of-state counsel, lenders and borrowers advising about Oklahoma law for matters ranging from $10,000,000 to over $10,000,000,000
- Negotiate and prepare acquisition and sale documentation in commercial business transactions
- Represents buyers and sellers in a wide range of commercial real estate transactions including acquisition, financing, leasing and sales of office, retail, medical and residential development property
- Formation and organization of LLCs and corporations including advising clients on entity structure to preparation and revision of governing documents
- Represents financial institutions in multi-million dollar lending transactions
- Commercial real estate acquisitions, sale and leasing transactions for individuals and privately held and public companies
- Represents both lenders and borrowers in complex financings
- Negotiation and preparation of leases for a variety of commercial uses
- Commercial real estate transactions for individuals and privately held and public companies
- Complex financings for both lenders and borrowers
- Automobile dealerships
- Entity formation
- Best Lawyers®: Commercial Transactions / UCC Law (2025)
- Best Lawyers®: Real Estate Law (2012-present)
- 405 Magazine Top Attorney in Real Estate (2023)
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