Ammad Waheed is a partner in Norton Rose Fulbright's Houston office and leads the Houston real estate group. 

Ammad Waheed has a broad-based commercial real estate and corporate transactions practice.  Ammad's clients appreciate how he promptly provides actionable advice by contextualizing risk with an understanding of their business goals.  His national real estate practice experience includes extensive representation of data center developers, REITs, pension funds, institutional and non-institutional investors, private equity funds, lenders and local developers.  Ammad has significant experience in handling all types of commercial real estate transactions: acquisition and sale of vacant land, office buildings, multi-family, hotels, shopping centers, and other commercial properties; commercial leasing (office, industrial, retail and medical) and ground leasing; acquiring, forming and representing limited liability companies, partnerships, and joint ventures; sale-leaseback transactions; and contractor, architect, vendor, broker and other asset management agreements.  In addition, he routinely advises on complex corporate transactions with a significant real estate component, such as mergers and acquisitions, asset purchase agreements, global master service agreements, and portfolio purchases and sales.  Ammad has also advised clients developing renewable energy projects around the country and helps navigate associated real estate issues.  

Ammad also represents some of the largest hyperscalers in the country in AI-infrastructure and datacenter transactions and has overseen over $20 billion in transactions in this area. 

Ammad also brings broad litigation experience to his transactional practice, enabling him to provide a valuable perspective to clients seeking to minimize risk.  He has first-chaired a dozen jury trials to verdict.  He has assisted in several bankruptcy adversary proceedings on behalf of a global investment bank after the company's historic bankruptcy confirmation.  He also assisted in the representation of a major energy company in a multibillion-dollar fraudulent conveyance case that went to trial.

Prior to entering private practice, Ammad served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Gray H. Miller of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and interned at the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Illinois. Ammad has also worked at large, international law firms, and served as a broker with and in-house counsel for one of the world's largest tenant-only commercial real estate firms.

Ammad is fluent in several languages, including German, Hindi, and Urdu.  He enjoys providing pro bono representation, including asylum, predatory business, and discrimination cases.  For his efforts, Ammad was invited to join the Pro Bono College of the State Bar of Texas.