Real Estate Law
The commercial real estate practice of Bressler, Amery & Ross provides clients with the legal services necessary to address all aspects of real estate acquisition, development, financing, ownership, leasing, and operation.
We advise and represent clients, including buyers, sellers, developers, lenders, borrowers, landlords, and tenants of commercial real property, with respect to the negotiation, structure, documentation, and closing of acquisitions, dispositions, leases, loans, and other real property–related transactions. Our real estate lawyers are able to call upon their colleagues with experience and expertise in various related areas, such as corporate law, taxation, land use, development, construction, bankruptcy, and environmental law, to offer our clients access to the full range of services that may be necessary to tackle their real estate needs.
Real Estate Leasing
We regularly represent both landlords and tenants in a wide range of leasing matters involving office, retail, commercial, and special use properties.
The lawyers in our real estate group are experienced in:
- Office leases
- Retail leases
- Commercial/Industrial leases
- Mixed-use projects
- Entire buildings
- Data centers
- Multi-tenanted buildings
- Bond leases
- Restaurant leases
- Supermarkets
- Anchor stores
- Big box retail
- In-line shopping center tenants and
- Securitized financing
Real Estate Finance
We have extensive experience acting as lender’s and borrower’s counsel in connection with a broad range of financing transactions. In one capacity or another, we have handled financing transactions secured by office buildings, single-family developments, raw land, multi-family developments, industrial sites, residential condominiums, hotels, manufacturing facilities, and shopping centers. And when faced with the need to restructure or liquidate troubled real estate assets, our real estate lawyers, working in concert with firm bankruptcy attorneys, bring seamless service to our clients in workouts, loan restructuring, and foreclosures.
The lawyers in our real estate group are experienced in:
- Traditional purchase money mortgage loans
- Refinancings
- Securitized lending
- Restructuring and workout of troubled real estate loans
- Construction and permanent loans
- Bridge loans
- Conduit loans
- Revolving lines of credit
- Letters of credit
- Economic development bond financings
- Synthetic leases and sale-leaseback transactions
- Mezzanine lending
- Ground lease transactions
Purchase and Sale of Real Estate
Our lawyers bring years of practical experience to these transactions and are able to guide both real estate and non–real estate professionals successfully through the maze of issues facing both buyers and sellers of commercial real estate, from the structuring of the transaction to negotiation of the requisite documents and, ultimately, the closing. We work hand-in-hand with other professionals—real estate brokers, accountants, engineers, environmental consultants, and surveyors—in the gathering and analysis of the due diligence that is a part of every commercial real estate transaction. In addition, we frequently counsel our corporate clients in the management of their real estate portfolios in the context of corporate acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures.
- The lawyers in our real estate group are experienced in:
- The purchase and sale of office buildings, shopping centers, mixed-use properties and various other types of real estate projects
- Formation of joint ventures for real estate investment and development
- Sale-leaseback transactions
- Investment in residential properties
- Construction contracts
- Tax-deferred exchanges
- The purchase and sale of environmentally contaminated properties
- Negotiation of purchase money financing
- Conducting and analyzing due diligence
- Real estate acquisitions and dispositions as part of corporate transactions