Executing Value-Driven Real Estate Strategies
In the dynamic and capital-intensive real estate market, success is defined by precise legal execution, innovative structuring, and comprehensive risk management. Our Real Estate practice delivers sophisticated counsel across the complete spectrum of real estate assets and transactions, ensuring optimal outcomes for our clients’ most significant investments.
We work in an integrated manner with colleagues across corporate, finance, and tax disciplines, providing clients, from institutional investors and national developers to financial sponsors and high-net-worth individuals, with the specialized expertise required to structure and execute complex real estate transactions.
Comprehensive Transactional Expertise
Our attorneys are uniquely qualified to navigate the full complexities of real estate law, covering all core transactional areas, including acquisitions, sales, financing, and development. We provide strategic counsel across all major asset classes, spanning multi-family, commercial office, retail, industrial, and specialized development sites such as brownfield and assemblage projects. We guide clients through the entire lifecycle of Acquisitions and Dispositions, from preliminary brokerage agreements and letters of intent through meticulous closing documentation, covering both real estate and related assets, including debt and equity instruments. Our process involves Due Diligence Mastery, performing a comprehensive review of title, survey, leasing, environmental, and zoning matters, and advising on Strategic Structuring, including appropriate ownership structures, liability management, and tax considerations such as Section 1031 exchanges. Furthermore, we excel in establishing Joint Ventures and Capital Structures, representing both operators and investors in complex partnership arrangements. These structures are crucial for obtaining needed capital, optimizing tax benefits, and sharing risks, with our expertise addressing issues related to capital funding mechanisms, management rights, exit strategies, and nuanced Tax and ERISA structuring.
We possess extensive experience advising clients, as both borrowers and lenders, with respect to the financing of real estate and related assets. We specialize in structuring transactions that align with market expectations and client objectives.
- Complex Debt Instruments: Expertise in first and subordinate mortgage loans, construction loans, structured and mezzanine financing, subscription financing, and revolving credit lines.
- Documentation and Negotiation: Drafting and negotiating all necessary loan documents, intercreditor agreements, participation agreements, and related arrangements.
We represent landlords and tenants in the preparation and negotiation of sophisticated leases across all commercial sectors (office, retail, industrial). Our focus is on the efficient allocation of risk and the long-term strategic needs of the asset.
- Full Lease Spectrum: Routinely handling space leases, ground leases, and related documents, including brokerage agreements, guarantees, subleases, and essential collateral agreements like SNDAs (Subordination, Non-Disturbance, and Attornment Agreements).
- Strategic Advisory: Providing pragmatic counsel on critical lease provisions and strategic leasing decisions from the original deal sheet through execution.
We represent our clients, as owners, lenders, and creditors, in connection with the workout and restructuring of troubled real estate assets and debt.
- Debt Resolution: Expertise in loan modifications, loan participations, foreclosures, and deeds in lieu of foreclosure.
- Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Representing aggrieved parties seeking to resolve disputes arising out of real estate dealings in the relevant courts.
