Real Estate

Our firm's real estate group has a long and impressive history in the representation of real estate professionals engaged in a wide variety of transactions and activities throughout the United States. In addition, we represent numerous banks and other financial institutions in connection with the creative financing of real estate projects throughout the country. Equally important to our practice are the corporate and individual clients who undertake an occasional real estate transaction to further their business or personal goals. Because of the diversity of our clients and the varied nature of their real estate needs, each of our firm's real estate attorneys has acquired and developed impressive expertise in a broad range of matters and in various sub-specialties.

This exposure to a wealth of real estate matters affords our attorneys the opportunity to serve as counsel on different sides of many types of transactions. We are equally proficient at representing the seller or the buyer in a real property transaction, the landlord or the tenant in a lease negotiation, and the lender or the borrower in a loan transaction, to cite merely three examples. We are very effective as advocates for either side because we know from first-hand experience the issues likely to be considered in an opposing counsel's deliberations.

Our firm's real estate attorneys are recognized as specialists in such wide-ranging matters as:
• Sales and acquisitions of commercial, industrial and residential properties,
   including 1031 tax-deferred exchanges.
• Financing of the acquisition and development of commercial, industrial and
   residential sites.
• Development and leasing of office buildings and shopping centers.
• Formation of joint ventures between developers and financial institutions.
• Representation of cooperative apartment corporations and condominium
   associations.
• Preparation of condominium and cooperative offering plans.
• Workouts of problem loans and troubled properties.
• Counseling property owners regarding management issues.
• Construction contract negotiations and dispute resolutions.
• Structuring and organizing general and limited partnerships and other entities,
   such as limited liability companies, which develop and operate real estate projects.
• Limited partnership syndications and no-action letter applications.

Our real estate attorneys are proud of the fact that they are not merely respected legal advisors, but are also skilled and knowledgeable professionals focused both on business fundamentals as well as the significant transactional variations and complexities which often are essential to the successful conclusion of a major project or transaction. Their counsel is often also sought by clients concerned with the business aspects of a proposed transaction.