Biography
Hila Solomon is a founding partner of the Firm and has over a decade of legal experience as a former Big Law attorney and senior in-house counsel at one of the world's largest real estate companies. She represents investors, developers, lenders, borrowers, landlords, tenants, family offices, and private companies in sophisticated commercial real estate transactions throughout the United States involving office, multifamily, industrial, retail, hospitality, mixed-use, and development properties.
Her experience includes advising on acquisitions and dispositions, portfolio transactions, joint ventures, debt and equity financings, development projects, commercial leasing, GSI lending, loan servicing, and asset management matters. Hila advises clients through every stage of the transaction lifecycle, delivering practical, efficient, and business-oriented counsel designed to achieve exceptional commercial outcomes and successfully advance her clients' strategic objectives.
Prior to co-founding the Firm, Hila served as Senior Counsel in the Debt and Structured Finance division of CBRE, Inc., where she was the sole legal advisor supporting one of the company's national business lines. In that capacity, she provided strategic legal counsel to business leadership for a platform responsible for approximately $95 billion in annual financing volume and a global loan servicing portfolio exceeding $450 billion. She independently advised on complex legal and commercial matters, negotiated and drafted a broad range of sophisticated commercial agreements, assessed and managed legal risk, and served as the primary decision-maker on legal issues affecting loan servicing, commercial lending, borrower and client negotiations, commission and brokerage arrangements, lender-side transactions, dispute resolution, and the management of outside counsel.
Previously, Hila practiced for more than a decade at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP, where she was an associate in the firm's Real Estate Department and also practiced in the Litigation Department. During her tenure, she represented institutional investors, developers, lenders, borrowers, landlords, and tenants in sophisticated domestic and cross-border real estate transactions involving office, multifamily, data center, cold-storage, retail, single-family, mixed-use, hospitality, and other commercial assets. Her experience includes acquisitions and dispositions, construction and permanent financings, joint ventures, development transactions, leasing, title and survey review, corporate governance matters, and real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
In addition to her client work, Hila maintained an active leadership role at Gibson Dunn, serving on the firm's Harvard Law School recruiting team and Community Affairs Committee while mentoring junior attorneys and managing complex transaction teams.
Over the course of her career, Hila has maintained a longstanding commitment to pro bono legal work, representing numerous clients in matters ranging from contract disputes and domestic violence restraining orders to asylum proceedings. She has also provided pro bono representation through the Campus Antisemitism Legal Line.
Hila has been recognized by Southern California Super Lawyers as a Rising Star for seven consecutive years from 2018 through 2024, an honor awarded to no more than 2.5% of attorneys in the State, and by Best Lawyers as Ones to Watch in America in Real Estate Law for 2022 through 2025. She is admitted to practice law in the State of California.
Representative Transactions
The matters below were handled prior to the formation of Solomon & Fishman LLP.
Advised a leading global alternative investment manager in its $152 million acquisition, financing, and joint venture formation related to two Class A office buildings in Phoenix, Arizona.
Represented a client and its international investment partner in the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of nine multifamily residential communities valued at more than $100 million.
Represented a leading global investment management firm in the acquisition of twelve properties and the financing of five of those properties from two different financing sources.
Advised a joint venture between a leading global alternative investment manager and a prominent multifamily real estate investment firm in the phased disposition of a multifamily portfolio to multiple buyers.
Represented an acquiring company in its diligence of real estate assets owned by a target company in an acquisition valued at more than $1 billion.
Represented a global real estate investment advisory and fund management firm in a high-stakes commercial dispute against a real estate developer involving aggregate claims and underlying real property valued at over $100 million.
Represented a private real estate investment firm in negotiating a joint venture agreement with a publicly traded real estate investment trust to develop land in California into a 154-unit active adult community.
Represented a leading data center developer and operator in its acquisition of four parcels of land in Virginia for the development of data centers, with a purchase price of approximately $38 million.
Represented a leading real estate investment firm in the approximately $40 million sale of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art parking garage.
Represented a national real estate investment and asset management firm in its acquisition of a 408-unit apartment building in Arizona for approximately $98 million.
Represented a leading real estate investment manager as borrower in the upsizing of a $105.5 million loan from a national financial institution.
Represented a leading global alternative investment manager in the refinancing of nine apartment buildings in Nevada.
Represented a leading global investment firm in its acquisition and financing of an office building in Oakland, California, for over $250 million.
Represented a leading real estate investment manager in originating a mortgage loan secured by an office building in Dallas, Texas.
Represented a leading global alternative investment manager in its acquisition and financing of four industrial cold storage warehouse properties located in Florida, Indiana, North Dakota, and Ohio.
Represented the real estate finance affiliate of a leading global investment firm in obtaining a $150 million loan from a leading institutional lender secured by residential condominium units.
Represented a Fortune 500 global infrastructure consulting firm in connection with a loan modification relating to a prominent hotel in West Hollywood, California.
Represented the real estate finance affiliate of a leading global investment firm in the modification of a $239 million loan secured by real property.
Represented a private real estate investment firm in obtaining construction financing for the ground-up development of a 226-unit apartment project in Las Vegas, Nevada.
