This firm has provided legal services in a wide range of real estate and real estate related transactions such as:
- Sales and purchases of real estate, including large commercial and industrial property
- 1031 exchanges
- Sales and leasebacks
- Mortgage financing, representing both financial institutions and commercial borrowers
- Subdivisions, including purchase and financing, approvals from local planning and zoning boards, and financial and legal structure of subdivision unit sales
- Financial litigation, including mortgage foreclosures
- Leasing, representing both landlords and commercial tenants, including the preparation of “standard” leases and their implementation
- Construction, including financial aspects, representing architects, contractors, owners and financial institutions
There is particular opportunity for the implementation of new and imaginative ideas in the structure and operation of real estate transactions and businesses. Bringing to bear a number of other disciplines in which we have extensive knowledge, we have transcended traditional real estate structures and implemented new and imaginative concepts in a wide assortment of transactions, such as subdivision and development work, financing of real estate acquisitions, leases, the refinancing and consolidation of mortgages and the acquisition and development of commercial real estate projects, including shopping centers, office buildings, factories and industrial complexes, warehouses and multi-family residential buildings.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Represented New York-based consumer goods manufacturer and importer in purchase of multiple properties for its headquarters and warehouse
- Represented real estate development company in all phases of purchase of 20,000 square foot building in Manhattan for condo development
- Prepared and implemented use of standard commercial office lease for Manhattan real estate corporation with multiple commercial investment properties
- Handled all phases of sale of multiple adjoining retail properties in Brooklyn, New York
- Represented individual owners in sale of 750 acre estate in upstate New York
- Represented investor-owner in sale of, and grant of purchase money financing for, unimproved New York State land to developer
- Represented developer in all phases of acquisition, subdivision and planning of improvement of real estate located in New York State
- Represented prominent accounting firm with negotiation of full-floor lease of 20,000 sq. ft. for use as its principal offices
- Represented U.S. subsidiary of international telecommunications carrier in its lease of an entire floor in a prime midtown Manhattan building, and in Chicago, Jersey City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Montreal and other locations, for its headquarters and satellite offices
- Represented individual seller in all aspects of sale of Brooklyn industrial building and warehouse
- Represented medical diagnostic service provider in negotiation of its multiple administrative office, warehouse and diagnostic locations throughout the State of New York
- Represented architectural firm in negotiation and preparation of agreement for design services for buildout of commercial space