Founder
Angelique Thomas
Clients Rely on Angelique to Protect Their Interests and Navigate Real Estate Deals With Ease
With more than a decade of experience, Angelique offers concierge-level counsel on sophisticated commercial and residential real estate transactions and disputes across the United States and Caribbean.
She delivers insight and clarity on complex projects and guides clients in the finance, leasing, development, acquisition, and disposition of properties. These include: multisite, multijurisdictional office space, retail buildings, hotels, mixed-use developments, land, residential subdivisions, and other commercial real estate ventures.
Her clients include commercial buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, developers, investors, bankers, private lenders, hospitality owners and operators, and national corporations scaling their operations, including many luxury brands.
As a trusted partner to the region's leading real estate agents, Angelique advises on high-end home transactions, providing residential buyer and seller representation, closing services, and title insurance. She serves as a title agent for Old Republic National Title Insurance Company.
Before founding Vellum Law, Angelique practiced with large law firms in Florida and New York, including Akerman LLP, Shutts & Bowen LLP, and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, advising clients on business and real estate matters nationwide and cross-border. She began her career as a staff attorney with the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, where she briefed panels of circuit judges and drafted majority and dissenting opinions.
Blending her Big Law background with catered attention and service, Angelique forms lasting relationships to help clients navigate the legal complexities of real estate transactions with precision, efficiency, and commercial sense.
Experience
Vellum Law PLLC
Founder & Principal Attorney, 2016 to Present
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Staff Attorney, Real Estate
Shutts & Bowen LLP
Associate Attorney, Real Estate
Akerman LLP
Associate Attorney, Real Estate
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida
Staff Attorney
Practice Focus
- Commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions
- Real estate finance and lending
- Commercial and ground leasing
- Development and construction
- Residential closings and title insurance
- Outside real estate counsel for public and private companies
Education
Juris Doctor, University of Georgia School of Law, 2010
Bachelor of Science in Communication, University of Miami, 2005
Bar Admissions
- Florida
- Georgia
- New York
- District of Columbia
Affiliations and Leadership
- Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network
- International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
- Urban Land Institute (ULI)
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar
- Title Agent, Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
- Co-Chair, Transaction Law Session, Palm Beach County Bench Bar Conference
Ask Angelique
What kinds of real estate matters do you handle?
Both commercial and residential. On the commercial side, that spans acquisitions and dispositions, financing, leasing, and development across property types, office, retail, hotels, mixed-use, vacant land, and residential subdivisions. On the residential side, I represent buyers and sellers in high-end home transactions and provide closing services and title insurance.
Can you help with a transaction outside of Florida?
Yes. I'm admitted in Florida, Georgia, New York, and Washington, D.C., and much of my practice is multijurisdictional. I regularly handle multisite transactions across the United States and have worked on matters in the Caribbean as well. For clients scaling operations across multiple states, that reach is often the point.
Do you serve as outside counsel on an ongoing basis?
I do. I serve as outside real estate counsel for both publicly traded and privately held companies across the country. For companies with recurring real estate needs but no in-house real estate group, that arrangement tends to be more efficient than engaging new counsel for each transaction.
What does the title insurance piece mean for my closing?
I'm a title agent for Old Republic National Title Insurance Company, which means title work and insurance can be handled in-house as part of your transaction rather than coordinated through a separate provider. For most clients, that translates to a cleaner, faster closing with fewer parties to manage.
I'm a real estate agent. How do you work with agents and their clients?
Closely. I partner with many of the region's leading agents on high-end residential transactions, handling the legal and closing work so the agent can focus on the deal and the client. The goal is to be a steady, responsive resource that protects the client's interests without slowing anything down.
You came from large firms. What does that mean for working with you?
It means you get Big Law substance without Big Law distance. I trained at firms like Akerman, Shutts & Bowen, and Arnold & Porter, handling complex financings, large-scale due diligence, and sophisticated transactions. I brought that rigor to Vellum Law but paired it with concierge-level attention.
What kinds of clients do you typically work with?
Commercial buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants, developers and investors, bankers and private lenders, hospitality owners and operators, and national corporations expanding their footprint, including a number of luxury brands. I also work regularly with residential buyers, sellers, and the agents who represent them.