Only a select few real estate attorneys in Houston focus on real estate litigation or know how to effectively litigate a wide range of disputes concerning real estate including everything from breach of contracts to boundary disputes and complex landlord/tenant disputes regarding commercial leases. Shams is one of those few real estate litigation attorneys. As one of the leading Houston real estate litigation attorneys, Shams focuses his litigation practice specifically in complex commercial real estate disputes. Shams has represented clients across Houston in high-stakes real estate disputes involving breaches of real estate contracts, commercial leases, and commercial real estate fraud. He particularly represents clients in these specific real estate disputes in Houston and across Texas:
Landlord/tenant disputes involving rent, subleases, assignment, termination, additional rent and charges under the lease, tenant improvements, holdovers, renewals, maintenance, use of the premises, and other lease defaults.
Representation of owners, property managers, and tenants involving commercial lease remedies, such as evictions, lockouts, and personal property foreclosures.
Filing and removal of lis pendens.
Title and use disputes, including actions to quiet title, trespass to try title, boundary disputes, easements, trespass, adverse possession, and nuisance. Contract disputes involving commercial real property.
Commercial property tax disputes.
Disputes with financial institutions, engineers, and architects.
Brokerage commission disputes.
Breach of purchase money and buy-sell agreements.
Asset recovery
Debt & equity modification
Partnership, entity, and LLC disputes.
Land rights issues such as easements, eminent domain, condemnation, and rights of way.
Real estate fraud and misrepresentation.
Ranked as the Best Houston Commercial Lease Disputes Law Firm
Shams is known for leading Houston in commercial lease disputes. He routinely represents landlords and tenants in the most complex commercial lease disputes across Houston. Shams’ landlord and tenant clients rely on him as an experienced commercial leasing attorney to expeditiously resolve complex lease disputes regarding common area maintenance charges, construction of the premises, breach of contract, and various other matters.
Recognized as a Leading Houston Real Estate Contract Disputes Attorney
When real estate deals go sour, investors, developers, owners, buyers, and sellers rely on Shams to resolve real estate contract disputes efficiently. Shams has extensive experience representing clients in breach of real estate contracts. He has successfully prosecuted and defended actions for breach of earnest money and purchase and sale contracts in Houston and across Texas.
Best Houston Business Disputes Lawyer
Shams represents developers, investors, owners, sellers, buyers, commercial landlords, property and asset managers, contractors and builders, commercial brokerage and advisory firms, and REITs in the above disputes and in various other litigation matters.
About Houston Real Estate Litigation 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 $2.7 billion in transactions, Shams is a leader in Texas commercial real estate 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 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 litigation practice, please contact Shams via email at shams@cre.law or by phone at (832) 451-2594.