

Represent a national banking institution in a $200 million-plus sale-leaseback of a 500,000-square-foot corporate headquarters building in Troy, Michigan. Represent an investment firm in multiple joint ventures with different sponsors to develop, finance and sell multifamily projects in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois and Massachusetts. Represent a private equity investment management firm in the $295 million sale of a portfolio of 44 industrial properties located across Arizona, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota and Texas via the sale of the equity interests in 26 individual REITs.
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Included office, hotel, industrial, retail and multifamily properties plus a manufactured home park and entitled land parcels. Represented an alternative investment firm in 13 separate transactions for the $500 million sale of 34 properties. Represented a real estate private equity firm in the $633 million sale of the office condo portion of a New York high-rise, $650 million purchase and financing of a Manhattan office tower, and $385 million sale of a 16-story office building in Lower Manhattan. Represent a real estate fund in the ground lease acquisition, joint venture and financing of a new construction office and residential project in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Represent a real estate fund in the acquisition and financing of a 1.1 million-square-foot, mixed-use complex in Minneapolis. Also represented client in the subsequent sale of a 49 percent interest in the property. Represented a real estate private equity firm in the $2.2 billion acquisition of a Manhattan office and retail complex. Our clients see us as practical and business savvy, and they appreciate our ability to protect their interests, maintain their policies and achieve their investment goals as they navigate the eccentricities of each local market. Working closely with our Transactional Tax Planning group, we are at the forefront in developing and maintaining deal structures to optimize the participation of non-US investors.

Through our Insolvency and Restructuring practice, our depth of experience and insight into financing provides particular value when counseling clients on recapitalizing or restructuring investments during times of distress. We share knowledge of each local business culture across all our offices, giving clients accustomed to one market smooth access to resources and perspectives in others. News as the 2022 "Law Firm of the Year" in Real Estate Law and the 2023 “Law Firm of the Year” in Litigation (Real Estate Law), our practice is national in scope and scale, with seamless collaboration from office to office. National platform and international service


From formation of the investment vehicle to final exit, we remain involved with our clients at every stage in the process. The length and breadth of experience of our team (including litigators with specific experience in the area) allows us to assist ventures that need to be restructured or resolve disputes that arise between venture partners. We take an interdisciplinary approach to these transactions - our real estate attorneys work closely with attorneys in the firm who handle fund formation, securities law, tax, labor and ERISA - to ensure that transactions comply with all aspects of applicable law. Our attorneys' extensive experience representing many types of sponsors and investors gives us a keen understanding of different investor business models and structures, allowing us to identify potential areas of conflict and to structure these complex investment vehicles so as to minimize risk and maximize both returns and tax efficiencies. Joint ventures and similar equity investment vehicles require a nuanced understanding of the relationships of the parties to the transaction - and of their respective rights and obligations - with particular focus on how those relationships change over the life of the investment. Joint ventures and equity investment transactions Our clients rely on us to understand their business models and to structure deals that can produce the returns those models demand. And since we are also leaders in the real estate debt markets, representing both lenders and borrowers, our attorneys bring a deep knowledge of financing to every transaction. Our clients - real estate owners, developers and investors of every kind - prize our deep insight into markets and our practical approach to transactions. We handle transactions of every type and size in each market.
