Shaila advocates for clients across all aspects of complex real estate transactions. Her practice focuses primarily in the areas of real property acquisition, disposition, development, financing, and leasing.

Shaila regularly works with purchasers, sellers, developers, lenders, investors, landlords, and tenants across a variety of asset classes including multifamily, office, retail, restaurant, hotel, and industrial and healthcare projects. Her experience spans drafting and negotiating real estate purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements, loan agreements, joint venture agreements and various ancillary real estate transactional documents.

Prior to joining the firm, Shaila gained invaluable experience as an associate at some of the largest and esteemed big law firms in the world. She also served as Real Estate Counsel for one of the largest restaurant companies in the country. Her clients have included, amongst others, a myriad of restaurant brands, Fortune 500 retail and hospitality companies, lenders, multifamily and single-family developers. Shaila is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law, a top 30 law school in the nation.

Representative Experience

• Represented the lead bank on an up-to-US$515 million revolving credit facility secured by warehouse, flex and light manufacturing facilities.

• Represented agents and ad hoc lender and noteholder groups in connection with senior, subordinate, revolving, term, note purchase and other financing transactions secured by multi-state commercial real estate.

• Represented a private joint-venture in its acquisition and related financing of multiple hotel portfolios in Florida totaling over US$32 million.

• Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of a portfolio of hotels located in North Carolina and Texas totaling over US$84 million.

• Represented CorePoint Lodging in its multistate programmatic hotel disposition process, involving the sale of over 200 hotels.

• Served as counsel for Ulta in leasing its retail stores throughout the United States.

• Served as counsel for Inspire Brands in the acquisition, disposition, sale-leaseback and leasing of multiple restaurant properties throughout the United States.

• Served as counsel for Inspire Brands in the leasing of its support center in Hyderabad, India, expanding its international footprint.

• Served as special real estate counsel to Verso Corporation in its sale of Androscoggin and Stevens Point Mills to Pixelle Specialty Solutions LLC.

• Served as special real estate counsel to various companies in connection with multi-million-dollar mergers and acquisitions.

• Represented various corporations in connection with acquisition, disposition and leasing of various asset types including industrial, gaming, restaurants, and raw land.

• Represented a developer in the sale of a 500-unit multi-family apartment complex in Atlanta.

• Represented clothing retailers in leasing transactions across the United States.

• Represented developer in the financing and development of build-to-rent developments in various parts of the country.

• Represented health care providers in the leasing of infusion centers nationwide.

Education

Emory University School of Law, J.D. (with Honors)

Emory University, B.S. (Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology)

Admissions

Texas

Georgia