We have extensive experience counseling our diverse real estate clients in a wide
range of sophisticated real estate transactions and operations, regionally and
throughout the United States.
Our real estate clients include users, investors, developers, ground lessors and lessees,
landlords and tenants, condominium associations, lenders and property management
companies. The real estate matters we typically handle involve office buildings, retail
centers, senior living communities, single family home subdivisions, and industrial,
warehouse and manufacturing facilities. Our attorneys bring their extensive real estate
law knowledge and experience to all stages of a transaction, from drafting letters of
intent to negotiating agreements, to completing title and survey review, to closing
and document execution, all to fully serve our clients’ needs.
Our real estate attorneys regularly involve our tax colleagues to assess tax risks in client
transactions and to structure tax-deferred property exchanges. Where appropriate,
we also team with our litigation colleagues in resolving disputes.
Retail Projects: We advise individuals, investor groups and institutional clients in the development,
acquisition and sale of retail property, including power centers, community shopping centers and single
user buildings.
Office Buildings: We represent a diverse clientele of individuals and institutions, users and investors,
including real estate investment trusts, in all aspects of office project acquisition and disposition involving
multi-building campuses and single user buildings.
Residential Projects: We assist our clients in the acquisition, financing and development of multi-family
and single family residential projects, including senior housing.
Leasing: We represent ground lessors and lessees in connection with the development of pad sites,
including build-to-suit projects, and we have extensive experience representing both landlords and
tenants in significant leases for office, warehouse and industrial space. We routinely represent landlords
in leases to national retail anchor, big-box and in-line store tenants.
Financing: We counsel regional lending institutions
in connection with construction and permanent
financings, including tax-exempt and taxable bond
financings, first mortgage financing, tiered mortgage
financing with intercreditor agreements, mezzanine
financing, leasehold and ground lease financing and
the assumption of existing mortgage debt. We also
handle loan restructurings and foreclosures.
Land Development: We help clients understand
and navigate the maze of local and state regulatory
approvals and permits impacting the ownership and
use of real property. We also prepare, submit and
present applications and materials for zoning, land
use and subdivision approvals before local planning
and zoning boards on behalf of commercial, industrial
and residential clients.
Entity Structuring: We advise our clients on the most
effective ownership structures, addressing liability,
financing and tax considerations.
