Prerna Soni

Partner at Gibson Dunn

Speaker

Prerna Soni is a partner in the New York and San Francisco offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Group.

Her practice involves a broad range of commercial real estate transactions. She represents private equity funds, REITs, developers, and other real estate investors in connection with acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, preferred equity transactions, construction and permanent financings, and development matters. Prerna also represents institutional lenders in connection with mortgage and mezzanine financings, loan sales and acquisitions, subordinate debt structures and intercreditor agreements. Her practice covers a wide variety of asset classes across the country.

A significant portion of Prerna’s practice focuses on distressed transactions. She regularly advises investors and lenders on the acquisition and disposition of distressed and non-performing loans, as well as structured loan portfolio transactions. She has extensive experience counseling clients throughout the full life cycle of distressed investments, including loan workouts and restructurings, enforcement strategies and remedies, and matters involving intercreditor conflicts, litigation, and bankruptcy concerns. Her experience includes foreclosures, deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure, assignments-in-lieu of foreclosure and receiverships.

Prerna often advises lending clients in connection with all aspects of taking title to underlying real estate collateral, including organizational structure and corporate governance, negotiating joint venture agreements and property management agreements, and positioning assets for stabilization and disposition. Although her practice covers assets in various jurisdictions, she has particular expertise with nonjudicial foreclosures (and other enforcement of remedies) in California.

Prerna was recognized as a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ 2023-2025 in Real Estate Law. She was also selected as one of CREFC's 20 Under 40 in 2025.

Prerna received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and she received her B.S. in Finance and B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Law from Binghamton University.