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Developing innovative pricing structures and alternative fee agreement models that deliver additional value for our clients.
Advancing professional knowledge and offering credits for attorneys, staff and other professionals.
Helping clients respond correctly when a crisis occurs.
Providing our clients with legal, strategic, and practical advice to make transformational changes in their organizations.
Leveraging law and technology to deliver sound solutions.
Delivering seamless service through partnerships across the globe.
Leveraging leading-edge technology to guide change and create seamless, collaborative experiences for clients and attorneys.
Industry-leading conferences focused on affordable housing, tax credits, and more.
Providing actionable information to support strategic decision-making.
Teaming with clients to advance sustainable projects, mitigate the effects of climate change, and protect our planet.
Offering a range of investment management and fiduciary services.
Bringing together companies and investors for tomorrow’s new deals.
Offering fresh insights on cases that are delayed, over budget, or off-target from the desired resolution.
Courtroom-ready lawyers who can resolve disputes early on clients’ terms or prevail at trial before a judge or jury.
Creating positive impact in our communities through increasing equity, access, and opportunity.
Partner / Office Managing Partner, Los Angeles
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Sonia Nayak is the managing partner of the firm’s Los Angeles office. Her practice centers on real estate development, including tax credit finance, affordable housing, and commercial lending, and she also leads the firm’s Sports & Stadiums team.
My practice covers a comprehensive area of real estate, including finance, corporate, tax, acquisitions, dispositions, and workouts. With well over fifteen years of experience, my clients view me as a trusted member of their team. At times, I am called upon to act as outside general counsel for my clients, providing objective and pragmatic advice and access to a deep bench of legal advisors at Nixon Peabody LLP to help them navigate their expanded business needs.
A significant part of my work involves bringing private capital to community and affordable housing development projects in California and nationwide. For example, I help investors (large financial institutions, regional banks, and funds), lenders, and developers leverage unique financing structures to finance developments with the capital needed to bring critical services to underserved neighborhoods and communities. These developments use financing programs, such as the federal low-income housing tax credit and new markets tax credit, and include affordable multifamily housing complexes, healthcare facilities, charter schools, cultural and community centers, and research and technology incubator facilities.
Much of my work has come to include clients in the sports industry. I represent sports teams and host committees on a broad spectrum of matters across the sports industry. As a long-time sports lover and fan, I am deeply motivated by the positive impact I can have in bringing my deal experience to the table with sports clients.
As we continue to invent new ways to address the shortage of affordable and transitional housing and work to infuse our communities with the capital needed to create jobs and spur economic growth, we will need to expand the intersection of public and private collaboration to effectively address these issues.
Los Angeles Office Managing Partner Sonia Nayak, of the Community Development Finance practice, contributed this article highlighting how NP LA is working with community groups, public agencies, and private organizations to create positive impact. The article focuses on the firm’s work with client Genesis LA and the Los Angeles Development Fund to help finance generational change among underserved communities in Southern California.
Los Angeles Office Managing Partner Sonia Nayak contributed this article discussing how the Los Angeles office has developed a diverse and inclusive workplace, and has deployed metrics and technology to shape a workforce that reflects the diversity of the Los Angeles region.
In this article, Los Angeles Office Managing Partner Sonia Nayak, of the Community Development Finance group, discusses several ways that organizations can effectively create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces, using NP LA’s office story and their DEI progress as an example.
California
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, J.D.
University of California, Irvine, B.A., Political Science
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