The breadth of our Real Estate, REITs & Real Estate Capital Markets Group allows us to deal efficiently with the full range of issues that arise in complex transactions, and we are able to execute large portfolio transactions, as well as numerous other transactions, for different clients at any given time.

Our attorneys serve as transaction counsel to many of the nation’s leading public and private real estate investors, including real estate investment managers, advisors, fund sponsors and real estate operating companies.

Our transactional expertise includes:

• Single property and portfolio acquisitions
• Complex debt transactions
• Equity joint ventures
• Roll-up and recapitalization of existing joint ventures
• The use of operating partnership units in tax-deferred transactions
• Tenant-in-common structures and 1031 deferred exchanges

Clients also rely on us to sell and/or recycle their real estate assets, often through tax-efficient structures that address the needs of both taxable and tax-exempt partners. In all of these transactions, we understand and address the unique tax, ERISA, REIT compliance, securities and bankruptcy issues that challenge sophisticated real estate investors.

In addition, we provide counsel in real estate-related workouts, restructurings and distressed situations, including:

• Representing both borrowers and creditors in mortgage and mezzanine loan workouts or foreclosures
• Structuring and executing acquisitions of real estate debt, including acquisitions by borrowers of their own debt
• Representing fund managers in connection with limited partner issues
• Advising borrowers, equity investors and co-lenders in cases involving lender funding defaults on credit facility and construction loans