Real Estate Attorneys

A crucial aspect of any real estate transaction involves financing and raising capital. Our lawyers provide expert guidance in negotiating and structuring financing for all types of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, development, repairs and renovations. We also assist our numerous financial institution clients, including banks, savings and loan companies, mortgage companies, insurance companies, and others in connection with the negotiation and documentation of loan transactions and in enforcement matters such as loan workouts and restructuring, foreclosures, bankruptcies, evictions, etc.

We are actively engaged in advising our clients in the proper structure of their real estate transactions so as to provide maximum protection from liabilities and to minimize the administrative, tax and other obligations arising out of the ownership, development and operation of real estate. Our lawyers have extensive experience in the formation of various entities used in connection with investment in and ownership, development and operation of real estate, including corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and trusts.

Closely linked with our structuring practice is our tax planning advice provided to our clients in connection with real estate transactions. Our attorneys maintain a high level of expertise in federal, state and local tax laws, rules and regulations. We represent our clients in matters involving property tax valuations and protests, income, franchise and margin tax issues, internal tax structuring, allocations of gains and losses, incentive compensation programs, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and divestitures involving real estate-related entities and their properties, and various other matters involving tax planning.

The scope of the development projects in which we have served as legal counsel includes large land assemblages, single-family tract developments (including master-planned communities), condominium/townhome regimes, apartment projects, regional shopping centers, urban and suburban office buildings, industrial and other commercial buildings, sports stadiums and other recreational properties (including golf course developments and fitness facilities), medical buildings (including medical office buildings, hospitals, nursing homes and related facilities and continuing care retirement communities). We assist our clients throughout the entire development process, from land acquisition to zoning, permitting and construction, advising our clients in conjunction with development agreements with governmental authorities, construction agreements with contractors and subcontractors, environmental matters, and land use regulations and restrictions.

Our firm has a strong foundation in commercial litigation and, within that area, our Real Estate Litigation Practice Group provides a wealth of experience in the resolution of disputes involving real estate. Sample matters in which our attorneys have been involved include purchase and sale contract disputes, partnership disputes, claims involving breach of fiduciary duty, commercial lease disputes, eviction proceedings, property insurance litigation, property tax assessments and protests, design and construction defects, title and boundary disputes. Our attorneys appear daily before courts, governmental agencies, boards and commissions and alternative dispute resolution proceedings such as mediations and arbitrations, advocating for our real estate clients and their interests. Our litigation team is capable of staffing each matter appropriately with the proper level of expertise so as to provide our clients with the best value to achieve their desired results.

We represent clients at all stages of condemnation proceedings including pre-condemnation planning, assisting landowners with strategy and negotiations after an initial notice of a taking is received, Special Commissioners’ hearings, mediations, trials (whether bench or jury) and appeals. We have represented clients including landowners and companies of all sizes in eminent domain proceedings involving utilities, pipelines, parks and roadway takings in both urban and rural areas across the state. Our attorneys are skilled trial lawyers who work with land use professionals including real estate appraisers, engineers, land planners and real estate brokers to advocate for maximizing the property owner’s just compensation for the taking of their property. Additionally, we represent entities possessing the power of eminent domain, such as utility and pipeline companies.

Your experience with our attorneys will be fully aligned with your goals and objectives and tailored specifically to how you want to do business with us. You will never be “pigeon holed” or forced into a solution with which you are not comfortable. Whether we are your longtime partner in closing a high value transaction or representing you in the courtroom, you will be comfortable with our skill and practical approach. We know exactly when to escalate matters and when collaboration is a more intelligent way for you to achieve your goals.