Shams Merchant is an award-winning commercial real estate attorney and a real estate private equity attorney in Houston, Texas. He is recognized by his clients for helping them structure and launch syndications, fund formations, securities, and private placements for commercial real estate investment and development projects.

Houston Securities and SEC Law Firm for Real Estate Syndications and Private Equity Funds

Commercial Real Estate Law Group and Shams Merchant focus on securities law for the real estate private equity industry. His practice is based in Dallas, Texas but is national in scope. He services clients across the country in their real estate syndications, investment funds, and private placement securities offerings. Shams understands the nuances of forming and managing private equity funds for real estate projects of all sizes and complexities. He routinely forms new real estate syndications and funds for the acquisition and development of retail, multi-family, industrial, office, mixed-use, build-to-rent, and student housing projects across Texas, including projects in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin, and nationwide.

Houston Real Estate Private Equity Lawyer

Shams is known by his clients and the real estate community in Houston as a “go-to” real estate private equity lawyer for the formation of 506(b) and 506(c) funds and syndications for real estate investment and development projects. Shams has represented new real estate private equity firms and large existing funds in Texas and has experience structuring and drafting all fund formation and syndication documents, including public and private offering documents (private placement memoranda, subscription agreements, and operating agreements) for commercial real estate syndications and private equity funds for the acquisition of apartment buildings, retail centers, office buildings, industrial and warehouses, portfolios, and distressed assets, and navigating and counseling on offering process and compliance with the federal and state filing requirements including blue-sky laws.

Start-to-Finish Representation for Fund Formations and Commercial Real Estate Law in Houston

Unlike other attorneys, Shams provides start-to-finish representation for real estate private equity firms and their sponsors on all of their real estate projects. He represents individual investors, private investment funds, sponsors, and general partners, from start to finish in their fundraising and commercial real estate investment and development projects. Moreover, as a commercial real estate attorney, Shams further represents those same clients in the acquisition, disposition, development, management, and leasing of their commercial real estate investments.

Houston, Texas Fund Formations and Syndications Legal Fees

Shams’ legal fees for real estate fund formations and syndications in Texas and particularly in Houston are based on a flat fee, which includes start-to-finish representation and ranges from $10,000 to $15,000+, depending on the size and complexity of the fund or syndication, the experience of the sponsor and various other factors.

About Real Estate Private Equity Attorney Shams Merchant

With experience working on award-winning ULI real estate projects and over $3.7 billion in real estate transactions, Shams is a leading attorney in Texas for 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 $250 million, including retail, mixed-use, office, industrial, hospitality, 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 also has experience in real estate disputes, including breach of real estate contracts, breach of leases, CAM calculations and other complex leasing disputes, brokerage 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 an authority in Texas commercial real estate law, and a big proponent on helping clients reduce their legal fees, Shams was recently featured in the Houston Business Journal, Dallas Business Journal, and The Real Deal for his work. His projects and clients have also been featured on numerous regional and national industry publications.

For more information on Shams Merchant’s Houston real estate fund formation and syndication law practice, please contact Shams Merchant via email at shams@cre.law or by phone at (832) 451-2594 or schedule a meeting using this link: Schedule Meeting.

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