Real Estate Development and Construction

The lawyers in the Real Estate Group regularly represent real estate developers and contractors and have been responsible for projects ranging from high-rise office buildings, shopping centers, and industrial parks to residential subdivisions, condominium projects, resorts, and hotels. The Group’s expertise covers all phases of these projects, including acquisition, annexation, zoning, environmental review, and all aspects of subdivisions, entitlements, permitting, and environmental analysis and review.

Our development work has included land assemblages, subdivisions, and project financings, and our work in assembling development sites has included the creation and transfer of development rights and air rights. We also have considerable expertise in the field of multi-use condominium and cooperative offerings and developments, including both new construction and conversions. In representing developers and investors, we have developed extensive expertise in the preparation and negotiation of joint venture and partnership agreements, construction contracts, construction and development management agreements, architects agreements, leasing and brokerage agreements and hotel management agreements. We have also had extensive experience in representing clients before public agencies and boards and in the negotiation of development agreements, public financing arrangements, and other complex financings from a developer’s perspective.

The following are representative real estate development and construction clients: