Latham & Watkins LLP

Shira Bressler is counsel in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Real Estate Practice.

Shira advises clients on all aspects of commercial real estate law with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions. Shira has worked on transactions involving portfolios of properties and single assets from both the purchaser and seller sides. She also has significant experience in real estate finance, including development projects, securitized financing, project finance, corporate banking, and secured high yield transactions. Her finance experience includes representation of lenders and developers in the financing of industrial facilities, hotels, power plants, coal and sand mines, office buildings, shopping centers, and casinos.

Shira has represented joint venture partners and real estate private equity funds in the negotiation of complex joint venture agreements for purposes of developing and operating hotels, casinos, and oil and gas pipelines. In addition, Shira has represented landlords and tenants, including emerging companies, in commercial lease and sublease negotiations for office and industrial space.

Shira is an active participant in the firm’s pro bono program, having worked extensively on the firm’s representation of Holocaust survivors seeking reparations from the German government. Shira has also represented nonprofit organizations in their lease negotiations. Most recently, Shira has assisted various charter schools leasing new space in the New York metropolitan area and Washington, D.C.