Commercial Real Estate Transactions

Cox Castle is a nationally recognized industry leader with experience and proficiency in sophisticated commercial real estate transactions throughout the United States.

Our attorneys handle complex and challenging matters for the most active market participants and have successfully completed some of the largest commercial real estate deals and projects nationwide. We represent a wide range of clients, including developers, public and private REITs, major financial institutions and corporations, pension funds, industry entrepreneurs, foreign investors, and other institutional investors headquartered across the United States and abroad.

Our attorneys have extensive experience handling real estate transactions involving all property types, including office, industrial, multifamily, retail, mixed-use, life sciences, healthcare, hospitality, land and alternatives.  Our experience ranges from single asset deals to negotiating highly complex and unique multi-asset transactions, including multi-state and portfolio transactions.

We handle all matters related to the ownership, development, and operation of commercial real estate projects, including purchase and sale agreements, ground leases, space leases, engineering, architecture and construction contracts, reciprocal easement agreements, development, asset and property management agreements and listing agreements.

We also routinely analyze, structure, negotiate, and document a vast range of joint venture, corporate and other investment structures utilized in commercial real estate projects, including limited liability companies, limited partnership, general partnerships, commingled investment funds, holding corporations and REITs. We also provide guidance in the event of disputes arising from these kinds of arrangements.

We frequently represent both lenders and borrowers in the origination of loans of all types in commercial real estate projects, including acquisition, construction and mezzanine loans, and the exercise of related remedies. In addition, we have extensive experience in a variety of issues that may arise in commercial real estate transactions, including entity structuring, hazardous materials, insurance, land use, leasing, tax and financing. We are adept at advising our clients in all aspects of due diligence review and evaluation of real estate investments, including title and survey, zoning and entitlements and environmental review.

Our well-rounded and national expertise enables us to be a cutting-edge, one-stop- shop for all of our clients’ commercial real estate transactional needs.

• Represented an institutional investor in the formation and negotiation of a joint venture with a local developer to acquire, redevelop, finance, lease, and operate a residential apartment project in Miami, Florida.

• Represented an institutional investor in the formation and negotiation of a joint venture with a student housing developer to acquire, develop, finance, lease, and operate a student housing project in Berkeley, California.

• Represented the investment authority for a group of Canadian pension funds in the structured division, between the client and its co-investor, of portfolios of industrial projects developed throughout the United States in joint ventures with the co-investor, with total portfolio value in excess of $500 million.  Assisted client in the assumption of asset management of the completed industrial portfolios.

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