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Industry-Leading Experience in Leasing, Development, Acquisitions & Dispositions of Full-Service & Limited-Service Hotels, & National Restaurant & Bar Concepts Nationwide
Shams maintains an active hospitality real estate practice and understands the complexity of hospitality transactions. He knows how to timely and cost-effectively complete transactions including ground-up developments of hotels, motels, and resorts, acquisitions and dispositions, financing, construction, management, franchising matters, ground leasing, joint ventures, and various other complex issues that arise in hotel investment, development, and operation. He has represented one of the leading hotel development and investment companies in Texas and its billionaire owner. Shams has also represented one of the fastest growing coffee brands in the nationwide in their national ground leasing transactions.
Hotels are one of the most unique commercial real estate asset classes because of the various components of hotel properties including the real estate itself, the personal property of the business, operational components, and the franchise if one is involved. These components can be owned and controlled by different stakeholders and involve a multitude of interconnected agreements including the development agreement, franchise agreement, management agreement, ground leases, and hotel operating agreements. Shams’ hospitality-focused commercial real estate practice includes this understanding of the unique nature of investing and developing hotel properties and he knows how to get deals done while protecting his clients’ legal interests, at a cost-effective rate.
Shams is also known as one of the best attorneys in Texas for restaurant and bar leasing. He has successfully completed over 100 restaurant and/or bar leases, representing both large landlords and national tenants alike. He thus has a unique ability to be able to represent his clients effectively regardless of which side of the deal he is on. Shams maintains great relationships with the leading property owners and their attorneys across Texas, which help his tenant clients get deals done faster and more efficiently.
Shams has completed over $100 million in restaurant and bar leasing and is knowledgeable in every aspect of restaurant and bar leasing law in Texas.