Real Estate & Land Use
Mastering Real Estate Opportunities and Challenges Worldwide
Businesses and individuals engaged in real estate transactions and disputes require seasoned legal counsel to effectively seize new opportunities and sidestep the multifaceted and potentially expensive challenges that arise.
The dynamic landscape of real estate is continually shaped by regulatory, environmental, and financing demands. Our team is committed to providing strategic guidance tailored to navigate this evolving terrain.
Known for our breadth and depth of experience, we guide clients through the full scope of issues that arise when dealing with real estate and are skilled at working on the cutting edge between real estate, land use, and environment laws in a way few other firms can claim. The team also brings our experience in developing unique financing solutions to assist clients with complex real estate transactions for high-profile projects, often involving multiple properties and lenders.
We handle domestic and international commercial real estate and development projects in acquisitions and dispositions, construction and project development, financing, land use strategies, leasing, real estate fund formation, and tax structuring. We have a wealth of experience with restructurings and workouts and have represented clients on thousands of transactions involving commercial loans secured by real estate. Our matters span the full range of commercial, residential, and industrial properties.
We represent clients on a regional, national, and international scale across various industries and sectors with business interests in real estate, land use, and development. Our team is highly skilled in areas such as land development, hospitality, housing, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and real estate workouts, enabling us to provide top-tier legal solutions that align with our clients' strategic objectives.
How we help clients
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Construction and project development.
- Financing
- Land use strategies
- Leasing
- Real estate fund formation, including REITs
- Tax structuring
We frequently represent
- Developers
- Investors
- Landlords
- Tenants
- Debt and equity participants
Real Estate & Land Use Services
Our Team
From acquisitions to dispositions, financing to fund formation, we guide clients through all stages of complex real estate transactions, addressing their business and legal needs in the global marketplace.
Acquisitions and Dispositions
Clients rely on us to handle all aspects of transactions involving the purchase or sale of real estate. Our lawyers are experienced in due diligence, negotiations of purchase and related agreements, tax-efficient structuring, title and survey review, and preparation of formation documents for the acquiring entity.
Construction and Project Development
With experience in all aspects of development projects, our construction lawyers prepare and negotiate design and construction contracts, development agreements, restrictive covenants, and easement agreements. They administer contracts, prepare and negotiate claims, and manage all aspects of dispute resolution, up to and including litigation.
Financing
Perkins Coie's Real Estate Finance lawyers represent lenders and borrowers in public and private financings ranging from single-asset financings to large, multistate transactions. Our team, which is spread throughout the United States, provides services in the multiple areas that affect our clients on both the lending and borrowing sides.
Land Use Strategies
We navigate complex land use issues arising under local, regional, state, and federal laws. We assist clients in obtaining land use and environmental entitlements for a wide range of development projects in both urban and rural settings. Our team also advises public and private clients on planning, development, and permitting strategies, including infrastructure financing, transportation facilities, and access management.
Leasing
Our diverse and sophisticated leasing practice includes lawyers well-versed in all aspects of the leasing process. We handle industrial, office, and retail leases, as well as ground leases, build-to-suit leases, and sale-leaseback transactions, on behalf of tenants, landlords, developers, owners, and lenders. In addition, we represent several institutional owners with high-volume transactional needs.
Mindful of the competitive pressures our clients face and sensitive to the long-term relationships that leases create, we focus on timely, efficient, and results-oriented counsel. We find ways to bring deals to completion—not derail them. We work closely with clients’ real estate and operations teams to maximize the performance of client portfolios.
Real Estate Fund Formation, Including REITs
With extensive and diverse real estate capabilities, our lawyers help clients, including a number of private equity and other real estate funds and real estate investment trusts (REITs), with all aspects of the financing, acquisition, development, and disposition of major projects nationally and internationally. We work with clients to form private equity funds for different classes of real estate investment, as well as other investment vehicles. We provide comprehensive legal counsel to privately held and publicly traded REITs in connection with the full range of entity formation, qualification, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission registrations, governance, tax compliance, development, and operational issues.
Tax Structuring
Applying deep knowledge and understanding of real estate transactions, our tax lawyers guide clients in structuring transactions to minimize tax impact and realize client goals.
