Hushmand Sohaili has a broad range of real estate experience, including the acquisition, disposition, sale/leaseback, exchange, financing and refinancing (including mezzanine debt) of commercial, residential, retail, special use, industrial, hotel and gaming properties and related businesses. In the hotel area he has also represented luxury hotel owners of five star hotels in the negotiation, documentation and restructuring of their hotel management agreements, the purchase and sale of such luxury hotels as well as the documentation of new hotel loans and the restructuring of the same. He has also represented buyers and sellers of distressed real estate and real estate loans and mortgage pools, including REITs and other investment entities, and he has represented clients in structuring and restructuring the real estate holdings of legal entities and their constituents, including loan workouts, foreclosures and asset purchases and sales, in and out of bankruptcy and the buyouts of partners. Mr. Sohaili also has represented REITs and has handled UpREIT and DownREIT transactions. In the finance area he has handled securitized capital markets and institutional and non-institutional real estate financings.
Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Sohaili was a founding partner of the Los Angeles office of an international law firm, where he focused on real estate transactional matters.
Mr. Sohaili received his B.A. with highest honors in economics from the University of Southern Illinois in 1975 and his J.D in 1979 from the University of Southern California, where he was a member of Order of the Coif. He is a member of the California Bar and the Los Angeles County Bar Association Real Estate Section.