Shelli Willis de Roos

Shelli is a partner in the Real Estate practice. She advises clients in connection with taxation, acquisition, financing, and investment matters including entity organization, capital restructuring, asset purchases, and sales, equity, and debt financing, low-income housing tax credit applications, and tax-exempt entity applications.

Shelli’s practice focuses on representing developer clients in acquiring and developing properties eligible for low-income housing tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits, and new markets tax credits. She also represents various equity investment organizations in their investment in, and housing authorities in their providing of, financing to mixed-finance public housing revitalization projects. In addition, she has assisted clients with the formation and entity selection of various operating and investment entities, including limited liability companies, limited partnerships, corporations, and other joint ventures.

Additionally, Shelli practices in most areas of federal income taxation with an emphasis on partnership taxation and planning for all types of real estate transactions. She also assists clients in preparing and filing 501(c)(3) tax-exempt applications and private letter ruling requests.