USA
Practice Areas
Real Estate
Sports Law
Sports Facilities & Entertainment Venues
Career
Denis Braham’s real estate practice involves representation of virtually all segments of the real estate industry in Texas and multistate transactions. He represents real estate developers, lending institutions, landlords, and tenants in lease transactions and large commercial, industrial, residential, and mixed-use transactions. He also handles the acquisition, financing, construction, development, leasing, syndication, sale/leaseback, management, and operations of a wide variety of properties.
Denis represents clients in the sports industry from venue development, finance and P3 transactions, to sports commissions, and local organizing committees for major sporting events to professional sports teams, universities, and governmental entities in complex sports transactions.
Denis also counsels a broad range of clients on complex business transactions. He has deep experience with reorganization and planning, including financing, commercial transactions, venture capital transactions, business start-ups, acquisitions, spin-offs, sales, mergers, and intellectual property rights related to business acquisitions.
Additionally, Denis handles international franchising and licensing, international project development, international finance, and multinational transactions.
Professional Memberships
Member, State Bar of Texas
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Houston Bar Association
Past Chair, Board of Trustees, Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, 2014-2017
Advisory Board Member, University of Houston Law Foundation
Executive Committee Member, Texas Bowl Foundation, 2008-Present
Board Member and Lead Counsel, Houston Super Bowl LI Host Committee
Executive Committee Member and Lead Counsel, Houston Super Bowl XXXVIII Host Committee
Lead Counsel, North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee
Executive Committee and Board Member, Greater Houston Partnership, 2005-2022
Past Member, University of Texas Health Science Center Development Board
Past Member, University of Texas Medical School at Houston Advisory Council
Member, Mayor’s Transaction Team (Houston, Texas), 2015
Guest Lecturer, Columbia School of Law
Personal
J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 1979
B.Sc., Hebrew University, 1974
