Professional Experience
Randy Cooper serves as the Vice Chairman of Stream’s office tenant representation division in the greater Dallas market and helps lead Stream’s national tenant representation practice. Randy has extensive experience in managing headquarters, build-to-suit, and lease transactions and corporate relocations. In addition, he has overseen the real estate needs (i.e., lease processing, lease administration, and portfolio performance reporting) for entire real estate portfolios. He has been a tenant representative for 40 of his 41-year commercial real estate career and is recognized as one of the dominant and highest-producing brokerage professionals in the Texas market. He has completed many of Texas’ largest tenant representation assignments, including the single-largest transaction ever completed in the state of Texas.
Cooper specializes in serving corporate users with multiple locations and understands that the negotiation of any successful real estate project depends on clearly defined objectives based on sound metrics to measure performance. He has completed more than 30 million square feet of assignments since 1983, totaling more than $18 billion in transaction volume.
Experience Highlights
- Broker of the Year, Commercial Property Executive, 2023
- D CEO’s Dallas 500, The Most Influential Business Leaders in Dallas, 2016-2022
- D CEO Power Brokers, 2008-2023
- D CEO Office Lease of the Year, winner 2013 and 2016; finalist 2014
- San Antonio Business Journal, Real Estate Deal of the Year, 2016
- D CEO Headquarters Deal of the Year, finalist, 2015
- Largest Office Lease in Dallas, 2014; Second-Largest Lease in Dallas, 2015
- Largest Office Lease in Preston Center history, Energy Transfer Partners, 2014
- D CEO Broker of the Year, finalist 2014, winner 2012
- D CEO Broker of the Year, finalist 2023
- D CEO Project of the Year, finalist 2023
- Real Estate Forum National Deal of the Year, 2013
- Real Estate Forum, Development of the Year, 2013
- Completed three of DFW’s Top 10 Largest Office Leases, 2013
- Dallas Business Journal Heavy Hitter, 1992, 1997-2019; Top 5 in 2007-2009 and 2012-2015, No. 1 in 2002 and 2013
- Cassidy Turley EDGE Award (top broker nationally), 2012; No. 2 in 2013
- National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), Dallas Office Broker of the Year, 2006 and 2012
- Dallas Business Journal Best Real Estate Deal, Jerry Fults Memorial Award, 2012
- Group Power Broker, multiple years
Clients Represented
- State Farm | 9 million SF | multiple assignments, including a 2.2 million SF co-investment Build-to-Suit
- Fannie Mae | 350,000 SF | Build-to-Suit, three location consolidation project
- Energy Transfer Partners | 130,000 SF | HQ co-investment sale/lease back
- Nokia | 330,000 SF | HQ Build-to-Suit
- CPS Energy | 433,000 SF | San Antonio HQ purchase/renovation
- ISN Software | 200,000 SF | multiple assignments, including 108,000 SF HQ new construction (2024)
- Sidley | 241,000 SF | 115,000 SF lease in new construction (2024)
- Aethon Energy | 75,000 SF | HQ renewal (2024)
- Texas Capital Bank | 510,000 SF | multiple portfolio assignments, including 202,000 SF HQ lease (2024)
- Sunoco | 120,000 SF | HQ relocation from PA
- Ericsson | 800,000 SF | multiple portfolio assignments – East Coast Region
- Blucora | 149,000 SF | new construction lease
- Locke Lord | 200,000 SF | multiple assignments (2024)
- Matador Energy | 150,000 SF | HQ assignment (2024)
- Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr | 115,000 SF, including 77,000 SF relocation within existing building
- Trintech | 71,000 SF | HQ relocation
- Dairy Farmers | 44,000 SF | HQ relocation
- TaskUs | 185,000 SF | multiple portfolio assignments
- HEB Grocery | 160,000 SF | multiple assignments (2024)
- ACE Cash Express/Populus | 78,000 SF | HQ relocation
- Squire Patton Boggs | 217,000 SF | multiple assignments
- Holland Knight/Thompson & Knight | 180,000 SF
- JP Morgan Chase | 213,000 SF | Dallas consolidation
- Encana Oil & Gas | 350,000 SF | HQ Build-to-Suit
- Altice/Cablevision | 105,000 SF
- Brierly + Partners | 55,000 SF
- McGuire Woods | 54,000 SF
- Carlson Capital | 90,000 SF | multiple assignments
- Dickies/VF Corp | 74,000 SF | HQ relocation
- Alon USA | 54,000 SF
- AlixPartners | 42,000 SF
- Prime Financial | 32,000 SF
- Sanyo Energy | 30,000 SF
Education
- Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Texas at Austin