Business Disputes & Litigation

Our Substantive Real Estate Knowledge Sets Us Apart as the Go-To Choice for Complex Real Estate Disputes & Litigation

TEXAS REAL ESTATE & BUSINESS DISPUTES & LITIGATION

Only a select few attorneys in Texas 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. We focus our litigation practice specifically in these complex commercial real estate disputes in Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. We have represented clients across Texas in high-stakes real estate disputes involving breaches of real estate contracts, commercial leases, and commercial real estate fraud. We particularly represent clients in these specific areas:

• 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.

We represent 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.

More About Business Disputes and 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 $3.2 billion in transactions, Shams is the leader in Texas commercial real estate and private equity law. He represents 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, 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. By working with his clients to reduce their legal spend, Shams has helped his clients increase the ROI on their real estate projects and the overall profitability of their businesses. As the authority in Texas commercial real estate law, Shams was recently featured in the Houston Business Journal, Dallas Business Journal, Austin Business Journal, Law 360, JD Supra 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 Texas real estate and business disputes legal practice based in Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, please contact Shams Merchant via email at shams@mwfirm.com or by phone at (832) 451-2594.