Real Estate Leasing

The Orrick Real Estate Group represents landlords and tenants in all aspects of commercial leasing, including the leasing of office buildings, retail space, shopping centers, warehouse, industrial, and manufacturing buildings, and mixed-use developments. We also have extensive experience representing clients in ground-lease transactions, both for new developments and existing buildings, in sale-leasebacks, and in creative tenant-equity leases (both on an individual and a building-wide basis). Our leasing work also includes work letters, takeover agreements, and reciprocal lease agreements.

In addition to being very active on leasing transactions in each of the various cities in which we have offices, we have also served as nation-wide leasing counsel for several of our corporate clients, and we have been responsible for negotiating headquarters leases for a number of other clients. As a result of the extensive work that we have done for both landlords and tenants, we understand each party’s perspective on negotiations and leasing issues in the current market, and we are thoroughly knowledgeable about all of the negotiating strategies and issues (and, very importantly, the solutions to those issues) that arise in leasing transactions.

The following are representative clients for whom we have handled leasing transactions: