Real Estate

Our services cover every aspect of real estate law, from acquisitions and sales, joint ventures, financings, and development to bespoke, hybrid leasing transactions, condominium work, and workouts and restructurings. This wide-ranging experience gives us unique insight into market trends, terms and conditions, positioning us to offer timely and innovative advice to our clients.

Our reputation in the real estate sector is renowned. Clients consistently turn to us for unsurpassed skills in handling major real estate transactions, appreciating our ability to understand their business, anticipate challenges, and offer real-time, creative solutions. Our clientele includes real estate developers and owners (including real estate investment trusts), private equity funds, institutional and alternative lenders, family offices, hoteliers, and other debt and equity capital providers. We guide clients in buying, selling, developing, redeveloping and financing properties, including offices; retail/shopping centers; hotels/resorts; and industrial, residential and mixed-use properties across the United States.

We regularly advise and assist clients in the following areas:

• Acquisitions and sales
• Finance
• Joint ventures
• Preferred equity investments
• Sale-leasebacks, ground leases and other hybrid leasing transactions
• Space leasing
• Real estate and construction litigation
• Real estate taxation
• Workouts and restructuring
• Development
• Condominiums
• Real estate fund formation

Internationally, with a notable presence in France, our Real Estate practice covers the following areas:

• Legal and tax structuring of investments
• Corporate and other structures
• Financing
• Construction and development
• Leases
• Property and co-ownership
• Construction-related disputes

Working closely with our Tax, Banking and Finance, Litigation, Environmental, and Land Use lawyers, we ensure seamless service on everything from zoning, development rights transfers, landmarks proceedings, eminent domain and condemnation to tax-efficient deal structuring, permitting, environmental impact reviews, environmental risk allocation and remediation. We assemble multidisciplinary teams that ensure seamless service on and a fully integrated approach to any type of real estate transaction.