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Overview

The attorneys in our real estate practice represent a broad variety of clients engaged in all facets of real estate development, ownership, financing, acquisition, disposition, investing, and leasing.

Clients include:

  • Commercial and residential developers
  • Shopping center developers
  • Real estate investment trusts
  • National and regional retail companies
  • Banks and other lending institutions
  • Office building developers
  • Multifamily developers
  • Real estate brokerage companies
  • Retail and office tenants
  • Investors
  • Public and privately held companies
  • Management companies
  • Architects and building contractors

Specific areas of extensive experience include:

  • Acquisitions and dispositions
  • Development
  • Partnerships and joint ventures
  • Commercial leasing
  • Retail leasing
  • Financing
  • Synthetic leasing (off-balance sheet financing)
  • Loan restructuring and workouts
  • Foreclosures
  • Shopping center acquisition, development, and leasing
  • Office building acquisition and leasing
  • Multifamily housing acquisition, development, and financing
  • Sale/leasebacks
  • Land-use, zoning and condemnation
  • Condominium formation and development
  • Tax free exchanges
  • Construction contracts

Our land-use attorneys represent owners, municipalities and educational institutions in land-use and zoning-related litigation matters. They have also been engaged in condemnation, real estate tax reassessment appeals and condominium conversions.

Because real estate is often an integral facet of other commercial and financial transactions, our real estate attorneys regularly work with the attorneys in our Business Law Department to handle the real estate aspects of major corporate transactions.

In addition, because Cozen O’Connor is a full service law firm, our real estate attorneys can easily draw upon the knowledge of other attorneys in different departments (including corporate, tax, bankruptcy, intellectual property, public finance, and litigation) to effectively deal with a variety of issues that regularly arise in real estate transactions.