REAL ESTATE

Underwood, Perkins & Ralston's Real Estate section structures, documents and negotiates deals in all aspects of real estate transactions and finance, including buying, selling, developing, operating, leasing, capitalizing, syndicating, and financing real estate projects. We also perform due diligence reviews of all facets of real estate transactions, such as titles, leases, environmental obligations and other factors affecting valuation. Our clients include lenders and borrowers, landlords and tenants, commercial and residential developers, owners and contractors, corporations, investors, and real estate brokers.

Our attorneys can structure even the most complex real estate transactions. We also regularly assist clients in resolving related matters such as real estate litigation, environmental contamination, loan workouts and debt restructuring, including foreclosures and disposition of problem assets.

The Real Estate section's services include the following:

• Acquisitions and dispositions
• Leasing
• Lending
• Development and construction
• Property management
• Homeowners' Associations and Private Restrictive Covenants
• 1031 Exchanges
• Restaurants and hospitality
• Real estate litigation
• Real estate securitization
• Restructuring and workouts
• Synthetic leasing and sale leasebacks
• Tenancy-in-Common (TIC)
• Eminent domain and condemnation
• Mineral rights
• Land use and zoning
• Environmental issues