Practice Areas
The Firm provides full-service legal representation to clients engaged in the acquisition, financing, development, sale, leasing, construction and management of real property. Services routinely performed include negotiating and documenting:
- Shopping center, office building and industrial park leases
- Purchase and sale agreements
- Ground leases
- Reciprocal easement agreements, CC&Rs and development agreements
- Acquisition, development and construction financing and all other types of lending transactions
- Construction contracts
The Firm represents production homebuilders and land developers in all aspects of residential and community development law, including:
- Acquisition and development of unimproved land, platted lots, finished lots, and various stages in between
- Sale of fully and partially developed parcels and residential lots to other home builders and land developers through various means, including rolling options and other land banking arrangements
- Preparation of joint development and other cost sharing agreements for the construction of roadway, utility and other infrastructure improvements, as well as finished lot improvements
- Preparation of payback, reimbursement, and impact fee credit agreements, school agreements, and utility agreements with various public and private entities
- Preparation of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and other Homeowner’s Association documents
The Firm represents commercial landlords, asset managers and other business clients in:
- Resolving commercial landlord-tenant disputes
- Forcible entry and detainer litigation
- Rent collection actions
- Enforcement of creditors’ rights in bankruptcy
- All other types of commercial and real estate litigation
The Firm provides general business counseling and transactional services such as:
- Forming corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies
- Drafting operating agreements, shareholders agreements and buy/sell agreements
- Handling business and asset purchases and sales
- Preparing employment agreements, non-competition agreements and confidentiality agreements
- Negotiating and documenting all other forms of business transactions