Real Estate
Commercial real estate transactions rarely end at closing.
A purchase often leads to financing, leasing, expansion, ownership changes, refinancing, redevelopment, or eventual disposition. The legal work should anticipate those developments rather than treat each transaction as an isolated event.
The firm represents business owners, investors, landlords, developers, purchasers, sellers, and commercial tenants in the acquisition, leasing, financing, ownership, and disposition of commercial real estate. Because the practice is integrated with the firm’s business, governance, and dispute work, the transaction documents are prepared with the property’s broader business objectives in mind.
The practice primarily represents business owners acquiring or selling commercial property, retail businesses expanding to new locations, restaurant owners, franchisees, and hospitality operators, commercial landlords and commercial tenants, developers and investors, family-owned businesses, real estate holding companies, and multi-entity ownership structures.
Approach
Every transaction begins with understanding the business behind the property.
The legal issues involved in acquiring a shopping center differ from those involved in purchasing an operating restaurant, acquiring a business together with its real estate, negotiating a long-term retail lease, or refinancing an existing commercial property. The transaction documents should reflect those differences.
Rather than treating contracts, financing documents, entity structure, and leasing as separate engagements, the firm coordinates those components so they work together throughout the life of the investment.
The Work
Asset and equity purchases of property-holding entities, dispositions, and refinance transactions across the hold period.
02Commercial Lease Review & NegotiationCommercial lease review, drafting, and negotiation, including renewals, assignments, tenant improvement terms, and guaranty provisions for landlords and tenants.
Representative Experience
Borrower’s counsel in eight-figure and larger refinances of commercial and multifamily investment properties, with SPE governance amendments, opinions, and closing execution across varying lender requirements.
Purchase-and-sale documentation, title and survey diligence, and 1031-exchange coordination.
Representative matters. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.