Shams Merchant Represents Real Estate Entrepreneurs & Emerging Real Estate Players from Start to Finish in Launching & Growing their Real Estate Businesses.

Shams maintains a robust and active practice representing fresh real estate entrepreneurs on their first significant transaction. He helps these emerging real estate players in every aspect of their real estate business, playing a small part in their growth and success. Shams’ real estate entrepreneur clients particularly enjoy working with him because he is hyper-responsive to their needs, and he provides various alternative legal fee arrangements. Shams believes in his clients, and unlike any other real estate attorneys, Shams is known to represent clients on deals for a success fee, taking on the risk of the deal alongside them. He represents these clients on real estate deals primarily in the following asset types:

  • Mixed-Use Projects and Redevelopments
  • Commercial Office Buildings
  • Multi-Family and Apartments
  • Retail Centers and Shopping Centers
  • Restaurants and Hospitality
  • Industrial/Warehouse Properties
  • Luxury Condominiums
  • Raw Land Development
  • Master Planned Communities

As an industry-leading and recognized real estate attorney, Shams represents real estate entrepreneurs and emerging real estate players in every aspect of their real estate business, from start to finish and at cost-effective rates, including:

  • Planning and Development
  • Purchase and Sale Agreements
  • Title Review and Curative Matters
  • Closing and Conveyance Documents
  • Acquisitions and Dispositions
  • Structuring Joint Ventures and Partnerships
  • Joint Development Projects and Investments
  • Lending and Financing Matters
  • Construction Contracts
  • Commercial Leasing for Office, Retail, Industrial, & Mixed-Use Projects
  • Zoning, Land Use, Restrictive Covenants, & Deed Restrictions
  • Closing & Title Insurance
  • Real Estate Tax Planning

About Real Estate and Private Equity Attorney Shams Merchant

With experience working on more award-winning ULI real estate projects than any other real estate attorney under the age of 35 and over $3.2 billion in transactions, Shams is a leader in Texas commercial real estate and private equity law, representing clients nationwide on the purchase, sale, development, leasing and financing of commercial real estate projects between $1 to $200 million, including retail, mixed-use, office, industrial, hospitality, restaurant & bars, and multi-family. Shams also represents clients in joint-ventures, business structuring, entity formation, and fund formations (including 506(c) and 506(b) offerings). Shams is also one of the few attorneys in Texas with in-depth experience in real estate disputes and litigation, including breach of real estate contracts, breach of leases, CAM calculations and other complex leasing disputes, brokerage commission disputes, property tax litigation, disputes between partners and shareholders, deed restriction disputes, real estate fraud and title and boundary disputes. Shams believes access to sophisticated and responsive counsel should not cost a premium. With that in mind, Shams provides a cost-effective and value-added service to his clients, whether they are new to the real estate or private equity business or a seasoned player. In furtherance of that principle, Shams proactively provides his clients with new ways to track and quantify value, from using technology to improve service delivery to offering bespoke alternative fee arrangements. By working with his clients to reduce their legal spend, Shams has helped his clients increase their ROI on real estate projects and the overall profitability of their businesses. As the leading authority in Texas commercial real estate law, Shams was recently featured in the Houston Business Journal, Dallas Business Journal, and The Real Deal for his work. His clients’ real estate projects have also been featured on numerous regional and national industry publications.

For more information on Shams Merchant’s Emerging Real Estate Players & Real Estate Entrepreneurs practice, please contact Shams Merchant via email at shams@mwfirm.com or by phone at (832) 451-2594

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