WASHINGTON (August 1, 2012) - Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram, P.C. is pleased to announce that it has expanded its real estate practice with the addition of Soha Mody, who has joined the Washington, DC-based firm as senior counsel. Mody is an experienced commercial real estate attorney with significant law firm and in-house experience and was most recently Associate General Counsel at Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) in McLean, Virginia.
At SLS, Mody will focus on commercial real estate transactions, real estate finance and lending matters, and related litigation on behalf of corporate clients and financial institutions. While at Freddie Mac, Mody counseled multifamily asset resolution and insolvency clients on transactional and litigation issues involving distressed multifamily loans and properties, and counterparty and borrower insolvency implications, including multifamily REO disposition, receiverships, foreclosures and affordable housing, and bankruptcy litigation. She played a key role in a variety of transactional and litigation matters, including terminating a major counterparty and transferring a $50 billion loan portfolio to multiple interim servicers, overseeing the redevelopment of Freddie Mac?s multifamily REO sales process, and leading a team in prosecution of multimillion dollar claims related to counterparty fraud.
?Soha?s deep and broad real estate transactional and litigation background is a great fit for our firm, and will be a tremendous asset to our clients? needs,? said Steven H. Schram, co-president of Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram. ?Her experience as outside and in-house counsel representing diverse real estate market players gives her a distinct perspective and enables her to provide well-rounded legal solutions to clients on a range of transactional, loan financing, litigation, and bankruptcy matters."
Before joining Freddie Mac, Mody was an associate in the real estate practice of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, DC, where she represented real estate and corporate clients on hotel and shopping center acquisitions, residential development, military housing privatization, pro bono affordable housing conversion and development, and other matters. She started her legal career in Arizona, where she worked in the real estate practice groups of law firms including Mohr, Hackett, Pederson, Blakley & Randolph, P.C. (now known as Sherman & Howard L.L.C.), Hymson & Goldstein, P.C., and Dushoff & McCall, P.C.
?Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram offers a rare platform for my real estate practice ? the opportunity to serve a broad range of a client?s transactional needs, while also serving as their outside general counsel and trusted adviser,? said Mody. ?I am thrilled to join a firm that is dedicated to delivering legal solutions that complement clients? business needs.?
Mody received two B.A. degrees from Pepperdine University, where she held the Rosemary Lokey Scholarship and co-founded a peer counseling program. She received a J.D. from Whittier College School of Law, where she was president of the Student Bar Association, co-founder of the Street Law Program and served as the Executive Sonnenberg Justice of the Moot Court Honors Board. She is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, Arizona and Florida (inactive).
Celebrating its twentieth anniversary, Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram is a boutique Washington, D.C.-based law firm renowned for its repeated success in ?must-win? cases. In addition to its commercial litigation and construction trial practice, the firm?s main areas of focus are business/commercial transactions, construction, and real estate law. The firm?s attorneys use their collective experience and passion for the law to deliver customized and successful solutions for their national roster of clients. For more information, visit www.slslaw.com.
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