Overview
Erika Solanki is an attorney in Holland & Knight's San Francisco office and a member of the West Coast Real Estate Practice Group. Ms. Solanki advises clients on a variety of real estate transactional matters, including acquisition and disposition, finance, development, negotiation of management and related agreements, and post-completion operations.
Ms. Solanki represents buyers and sellers, national banks and other financial institutions, public and private real estate investment trusts (REITs), institutional investors, homebuilders and international hotel companies. Additionally, she represents clients in all types and phases of real estate projects and has significant experience with complex mixed-use hospitality developments within urban and resort locations throughout the world, with specific emphasis on the U.S., Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Solanki worked on real estate matters and complex corporate transactions with law firms in New York City and San Francisco.
Representative Experience
- Representation of the world's largest hotel franchisor in its $1.95 billion acquisition of the franchise and management businesses of a hotel chain
- Representation of the world's largest hotel franchisor in its spinoff into two separate publicly traded hospitality companies valued at approximately $11 billion
Credentials
- University of California, Berkeley School of Law, J.D.
- UCLA, B.A., summa cum laude
- California
- New York
- Licensed Real Estate Agent, California
- Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network, San Francisco Chapter, 2025
- American Jurisprudence Award, Hedge Funds: Structuring, Advising and Regulating, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Spring 2016
- Prosser Prize, International Trade, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Spring 2016
- American Jurisprudence Award, Fundamentals of Leveraged Buyouts, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Fall 2015
- American Jurisprudence Award, Income Taxation I, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Spring 2015