Overview

Lila’s practice is focused on real estate leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, general business transactions, and renewable energy and water supply transactions. She has experience drafting, negotiating, reviewing, amending, and interpreting complex commercial contracts for private and public companies and real estate investment groups. Lila represents a wide variety of clients, including institutional investors and developers holding a variety of real estate assets, and provides advice to major corporations and private equity firms regarding real estate projects, water rights, and renewable energy issues. She also has a broad range of experience in public finance, public infrastructure development, and public incentives.

Experience

  • A variety of real estate investment groups in connection with commercial office leasing, lease enforcement, and general advice

  • Riverstone Holdings in the acquisition by its portfolio company, Abaco Energy Technologies, of Basin Tools, which engineers and manufactures rotors and stators used in mud motor power sections, and a provider of stator relines and rotor coating services

  • A major corporation in connection with the management, development, and disposition of real estate assets

  • Major corporations in connection with financings secured by real estate holdings

Credentials

Education

  • University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 1990 (Order of the Coif)
  • University of Kansas, B.S., 1987

Admissions

  • Texas