Overview
REITs
Cox Castle represents both public and private REITs in a diverse range of real estate transactional matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, financing, leasing, joint ventures, and developments throughout the United States. Our lawyers have decades of experience representing REIT clients in a multitude of real estate sectors from healthcare and hospitality to multi-family, office, and retail. Our multidisciplinary team collaborates across practices to seamlessly deliver a full spectrum of legal services for our REIT clients, including complex litigation, land use and environmental matters, tax, insurance and risk management, and construction matters. As a premier real estate law firm with expertise in every type of project and development, we guide our REIT clients through real estate’s most complex challenges while always keeping their business objectives and needs at the forefront.
Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions
We represent REITs in the acquisition and disposition of a wide variety of real estate assets throughout the United States and place great emphasis on the long-term implications of each transaction. The frequency with which we deal with complex real estate transactions affords us a distinct advantage in effectively and efficiently addressing our clients' concerns and objectives.
Financing
We routinely assist our REIT clients in obtaining all types of financing, both from traditional balance sheet lenders as well as from agency lenders such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and HUD. Our expertise includes the negotiation and documentation of acquisition loans, permanent and bridge loans, construction loans, ground lease financing, mezzanine financing, and financing to joint ventures. Always mindful of our clients' sensitivities (such as the allocation of loan recourse among joint venture partners or the impact that state licensure suspensions or downgrades could have on a credit facility), we are careful to guide our clients to resolutions that meet their particular needs.
Entitlement and Development
We represent REITs in the entitlement and development of a wide variety of real estate assets. Our attorneys have in-depth experience and knowledge in all facets of land use approvals including general and specific plans, zoning, conditional use permits, variances, and related matters. In addition, we have expertise in all stages of the construction and development process including negotiating construction contracts and implementing customized insurance programs. This expertise, coupled with our firm’s overall acumen in real estate matters and our in-depth understanding of the particular goals and objectives of each REIT client, affords us the ability to provide each client with comprehensive and integrated services at every stage of the entitlement and development process.
Leasing and Property Management
We have experience representing REITs as both landlords and tenants in the leasing all types of real assets, including retail, office, industrial, and healthcare. In addition, we have significant experience in master lease and ground lease transactions as well as build-to-suit, single tenant projects.