Roman Petra

AMDP '22

Roman Petra is a partner and member of the Affordable Housing & Tax Credit, Opportunity Zone, Public Finance, Real Estate, and Real Estate Capital Markets practice groups at Nelson Mullins. 

Roman represents developers/sponsors who work on transactions throughout the U.S. He represents both for-profit and non-profit developers. His clients range from large national developers to developers with just a few employees. Roman’s work runs the gamut from acquisition to structuring financing which typically includes multiple layers of various sources. His practice also includes structuring real estate joint ventures.

Roman focuses on projects financed with Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), bond financing (tax-exempt and taxable) and other sources of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), state, local, and other gap financing, including Affordable Housing Program (AHP), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), etc. Roman also works on transactions structured with Tax Incremental Financing (TIC), New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC), historic tax credits (HTC), Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZ) and USDA financing.

Roman holds a Counselors of Real Estate (CRE®) designation, and he received the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM®) designation from the CCIM Institute. He also graduated from CCIM's 2014 Jay W. Levine Leadership Development Academy. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, and Missouri, as well as before the United States Tax Court. He is name in The Best Lawyers in America® and achieved an AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rating with Martindale-Hubbell, which is the organization's highest mark for both competency and ethics. Roman has also been listed among the "Florida Legal Elite" by Florida Trend magazine and listed in the Bond Buyer's Municipal Marketplace, a Red Book Directory.

Roman is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Central Florida's (UCF) College of Business Administration with the Dr. P. Phillips School of Real Estate.

Roman received his Advanced Management Development Program (AMDP) in real estate from Harvard University. He graduated from Georgetown University Law Center with an LL.M. in Taxation; University of Miami School of Law with an LL.M. in Real Property and Development; Valparaiso University School of Law with a Juris Doctor, cum laude and senior honors; and Illinois College with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude.