Real Estate + Development
Our Real Estate and Development team provides comprehensive counsel and innovative advice in every phase of real estate development and in every facet of the commercial real estate industry.
We offer a complete range of services regularly representing buyers, sellers, developers, investors, lenders, landlords, and tenants.
Our lawyers have the experience, acumen, and problem solving expertise to assist clients with their real estate related needs no matter how simple or sophisticated those needs may be. We assist our clients with as little or as much support as they may need whether it be identifying and implementing complex financing or tax savings strategies or the conventional purchase of a building to be occupied by its new owner.
Acquisitions and Dispositions
We negotiate, structure, and document purchase and sale transactions, limited partnership agreements, limited liability company operating agreements and other joint venture arrangements, and other ancillary property related documentation related with such transactions.
Development and Procurement of Incentives
We represent developers assisting with zoning, from site acquisition, incentives application and execution from TIFs to property tax abatements and other pre-development transactions to the lease-up, construction, or financing of the real estate project.
Financing
We have experience negotiating and documenting every conceivable type of financing product associated with real estate, including property acquisitions, pre- development and construction costs, short-term bridge or interim loans to permanent loan vehicles, workouts and foreclosures.
Leasing
We represent both landlords and tenants in the negotiation and documentation of commercial leases related to any real estate use (retail, flex, medical, office, and more) or form (gross leases, NNN leases, build-to-suit leases, ground leases, sale-leasebacks, and more)
Areas of Focus: TRADEMARK COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
- Acquisitions and Sales
- Commercial Leasing
- Title and Due Diligence Review
- Joint Ventures Agreements
- Income Producing/Investment Real Estate
- Ground Leasing and Build-to-Suit Transactions
- Sale Leasebacks
- Real Estate Tax Litigation and Structuring Strategies
Areas of Focus: GENERAL BUSINESS & CORPORATE
- Partnership Agreements
- Operating Agreements
- Corporate Bylaws
- Service Contracts
- Employment and Independent Contractor Agreements
- Employee Handbooks
- Non-Competition, Confidentiality, and Non-Disclosure Agreements
Areas of Focus: DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE, & CONSTRUCTION
- Development Agreements
- Reciprocal Easement Agreements
- TIFs and Incentive Agreements
- Acquisition Financing (conventional, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, CMBS)
- Mezzanine Financing/Preferred Equity Arrangements
- Land Use
