Our real estate attorneys provide expert counsel and handle transactions and litigation on behalf of property owners, users, developers, lenders and investors in commercial, office, residential and mixed use projects throughout the United States. We also represent investors, lenders and borrowers in various real estate financing projects and serve as general counsel to a number of real estate partnerships.

On the transactional side, we have broad experience negotiating and drafting property acquisition, disposition and lease agreements for stand-alone transactions and more complex, multiparty, multiple location transactions arising from business mergers, relocations, expansion and downsizing. The firm has negotiated and directed thousands of real estate transactions for regional and national Fortune 500 grocery/supermarket, drug, and mass merchandising chains including American Stores Company and its subsidiaries (including Lucky Stores, Sav-On Drug Stores, Osco Drug Stores and Jewel Food Stores), and Hancock Fabrics. Among the transactions we have handled are the $450 million sale of an 80-store discount chain, the sale of 85 properties across the country valued at $50 million, the sale of a 28-store chain in Arizona, and the disposition of 75 Florida properties valued at $150 million.

From 1965 to 1989, the firm handled all real estate acquisitions and leasing for Lucky Stores and its subsidiaries, which grew from 200 to 1,800 locations with annual revenues of $10 billion. Our attorneys have negotiated and drafted hundreds of facilities development agreements for Lucky, and continue to work closely with its parent company's in-house counsel on a wide range of real property matters. Our attorneys also handle all real estate transactions for Hancock Fabrics, a 480-store fabric retailer.

Our construction practice encompasses the negotiating and drafting of design, development and construction agreements for shopping centers, office and retail buildings, manufacturing facilities, and warehouse space. We have represented clients throughout the development process, from raw land through final construction, handling all contracts with architects, engineers, general contractors, and subcontractors.

To support our clients' activities, our attorneys have negotiated over $1 billion of financing for the acquisition, leasing, construction and development of real property. These negotiations have involved major lenders throughout the United States.

Our attorneys are experienced in a wide range of land use matters and regularly represent clients before local and state regulatory agencies in development and redevelopment matters for small and large commercial projects. We have secured approvals for building demolitions and redevelopment of inner city property, and represented clients in negotiations over mandatory developer infrastructure improvements. The firm's real estate litigators have successfully represented clients in the full range of disputes arising from the purchase, development and management of real property.

If you have any questions regarding the firm's real estate practice, please contact or at 510.451.0544.