Real Estate & Real Estate Development
We offer our clients flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems across a broad range of transactions in the commercial real estate industry. The firm's real estate practice involves the acquisition, ownership, financing and operation of commercial real estate, inclusive of apartment complexes, shopping centers, portfolio acquisition, single family and multi-family transactions and vacant lands of all sorts of sizes and potential uses. The firm regularly advises real estate clients on a variety of matters including the following:
- Real estate operating company formations and investments including drafting and negotiation of joint venture, partnership and limited liability company agreements, investment advisory agreements, shareholder agreements and related documentation.
- Single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions.
- Management, leasing and related operational issues including drafting and negotiation of leases, asset and property management agreements.
- Secured lending transactions including drafting and negotiation of loan documentation and related advice on the real property law aspects of nonconventional debt instruments and instruments securing their repayment.
Strategy in connection with loan restructuring, workouts and acquisitions of non-performing assets.
Lawyers practicing in the real estate area have broad experience in real estate secured lending and structured finance, both in the representation of lenders and borrowers, on transactions involving conventional acquisition, term and construction loans.