Haider Syed

We guide middle-market companies through complex transactions with the precision of large-firm deal teams and the agility of a boutique practice.

• Buy-side and sell-side representation

  We represent acquirers, founders, and sponsors in stock and asset purchases, mergers, carve-outs, and recapitalizations—structuring the transaction, leading diligence, and negotiating the definitive agreements through signing and closing.

• Diligence and risk allocation

  We organize and direct legal due diligence, surface the issues that move price or structure, and translate findings into representations, indemnities, escrows, and closing conditions that hold up.

• Deal documentation and execution

  Letters of intent, purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, equity rollovers, employment and non-compete arrangements, and the full closing set—drafted and negotiated to commercial standards, without the BigLaw friction.

Real estate is often the most significant asset on the balance sheet—and the most complex. We represent developers, investors, lenders, and operators across asset classes.

• Acquisitions and dispositions

  Purchase and sale agreements, title and survey review, due diligence, entity formation, and closings for office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality, and land transactions.

• Development and joint ventures

  We structure and document development projects and equity joint ventures—capital contributions, waterfalls, control rights, and exit mechanics—so the economics survive contact with the project.

• Leasing

  Landlord and tenant representation in office, retail, and industrial leases, ground leases, build-to-suit arrangements, and lease restructurings and workouts.

Accessing capital is critical to growth. We advise borrowers, sponsors, and lenders on the full spectrum of debt financing transactions.

• Credit facilities

  Senior secured and unsecured revolvers and term loans, syndicated and bilateral—commitment letters, credit agreements, security and guarantee packages, and the closing mechanics.

• Acquisition and leveraged financings

  Debt financing for M&A transactions, including coordination with the purchase agreement timeline, funds-certain provisions, and lender diligence.

• Mezzanine, ABL, and structured debt

  Mezzanine loans, asset-based facilities, unitranche structures, and intercreditor and subordination arrangements among capital providers.

Growing businesses need steady, strategic legal guidance without the overhead of a full in-house legal department.

• Entity and governance

  Formation, operating and shareholder agreements, board and member resolutions, equity issuances and option plans, and corporate housekeeping that keeps the cap table clean.

• Commercial contracts

  Customer and vendor agreements, MSAs and SOWs, licensing, NDAs, and the day-to-day contract review that keeps deals moving without unnecessary risk.

• Financings and transactions

  Seed and growth equity rounds, convertible notes and SAFEs, debt facilities, and the occasional acquisition—handled by lawyers who do this work full time.