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| Samantha Ahuja |
Washington, DC, Jan. 24,
2017– Samantha Ahuja has joined
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP as a Partner in the Hospitality and
Commercial Real Estate Development & Finance practices.
Molly Kacheris,
an associate who has worked closely with Ahuja over the past several years,
also is joining MMM. Ahuja and Kacheris both will be resident in the firm’s
Washington D.C. office.
“Our Hospitality practice
has doubled in size in the past two years, and closed some of the highest
profile hotel transactions in the country,” said MMM Managing Partner Louise Wells.
“We are delighted to welcome Samantha and
Molly, as we continue to expand our platform in the industry.” Ahuja’s arrival
follows the firm’s recent promotion of David
Reina in D.C. and Catherine Morgen
in Atlanta, members of the firm’s Hospitality practice, to the partnership
effective Jan. 1.
MMM’s Real Estate Group is
in Tier 1 of the 2017 U.S. News - Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms national
rankings, with the Hospitality Group in the Top Tier for Washington. Chambers
USA recognized the Real Estate Group and several of its partners, including
Carol Weld King, who has been nationally recognized in the Hospitality category
for a number of years.
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| Catherine Morgen |
“Samantha has worked on a
number of award-winning projects and has received tremendous recognition on her
own for her innovative work,” Weld King
said. “She has a wonderful reputation, and we know she and Molly will add even
more power and depth to our team.”
Ahuja advises domestic and
international clients on hotel and resort acquisitions and dispositions;
operations; development and finance; franchise, management, casino, restaurant,
licensing and branding agreements; and a range of other commercial real estate
matters.
The national legal publication Law360 honored her as one of its Rising
Stars in Hospitality in 2014 and 2015.
She was primary legal
counsel for 1415 Girard Street Cooperative, honored as one of The Washington
Business Journal's Best Real Estate Deals of 2012, and the Housing Association
of Nonprofit Developers’ Best Small Affordable Housing Project. The Washington
Business Journal named her a Rising Star in its Greater Washington Legal
Champions competition in 2014.
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| Louise M. Wells |
Ahuja is also committed to serving the community. On a pro bono basis, she represents multiple affordable housing tenant associations and cooperatives in the District of Columbia in preserving their affordability and in various financing matters.
She also
volunteers for Junior Achievement and several other nonprofits, and belongs to the
South Asian Bar Association and Women’s Bar Association. She earned her B.S.
degree from American University, and her J.D., cum laude, from Valparaiso
University School of Law.
Morris, Manning &
Martin (www.mmmlaw.com) is an AmLaw 200 law firm with national and
international reach. We dedicate ourselves to the constant pursuit of our
clients’ success.
To provide our clients
with optimal value, we combine market-leading legal services with a total
understanding of their needs to maximize effectiveness, efficiency and
opportunity.
MMM enjoys national prominence for its real estate, corporate,
litigation, technology, healthcare, intellectual property, energy &
infrastructure, capital markets, environmental, international trade, insurance,
and timberland & forest products practices.
MMM has offices in and
around Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Savannah and Washington, D.C. The firm also has
a business development office in Beijing, China and a strategic alliance office
in São Paulo, Brazil.
For a complete copy of the company’s news release,
please contact:
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Partner, Thornton
Communications
Phone: 404-932-4347
Email:
Terri@TerriThornton.com
Website: www.TerriThornton.com
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