Real Estate and Development

Our real estate attorneys represent national and regional retailers, retail, mixed-use and residential developers, publicly traded companies, shopping center owners, hotel developers, and tenants in all aspects of commercial real estate law including:

Leasing

• Ground leases
• Shopping center leases for "big box", anchor, in-line, end cap, kiosk locations and outparcels
• Sale-leasebacks
• Lease extensions and renewals
• Tenant estoppel certificates and non-disturbance agreements
• Lease termination agreements, subleases and lease assignments

Real Estate Acquisition, Sale, and Development

• Letters of intent, access and confidentiality agreements
• Purchase and sale agreements
• Option agreements
• Easement agreements, operating agreements and restrictive covenants
• Condominium creation and conversion, association formation, management and representation
• Construction agreements
• Closings, refinances and restructuring including Conventional financing, Securitized loans, HUD 221(d)(4) Loans and SBA loans
• Commercial real estate development, condominiums, multi-family housing, mixed-use projects
• Construction financing, including institutional and private market funding
• Zoning and land use permitting and approvals
• Bankruptcy, insolvency, foreclosure and workouts
• Qualified Opportunity Zones
• Solar Energy
• IRS 1031 Tax-Free Deferred Exchanges of real property

Real Estate Services

• Retail roll-out programs
• Lease administration and property management
• Due diligence coordination (title, survey, environmental)
• Excess property disposition
• Dispute mediation, commercial litigation regarding adverse possession, boundaries and actions to quiet title
• Landlord-Tenant disputes, unlawful detainer actions and eviction Issues