Real Estate Attorneys.

We represent developers in the development of land and planned communities — land use approvals; design, construction, and builder contracts; CC&Rs and HOAs; easements and rights-of-way; and development, cost-sharing, and consultant agreements. Our work extends to negotiating and documenting joint ventures and investment structures, and a range of financing arrangements including equity, acquisition and development financing, construction lending, and permanent financing.

Our attorneys negotiate and document the purchase and sale of land and office, residential, retail, industrial, and mixed-use property — for clients ranging from well-known regional developers and builders to small property owners across Northern California and Nevada. We handle every aspect of a transaction: structuring the deal, negotiating and preparing documents, reviewing title and survey, negotiating title policy and endorsements, and closing escrow.

We advise lenders, developers, and owners on secured and unsecured credit and loan transactions, asset-based financing, real estate acquisition, development and construction loans, and complex banking transactions and compliance. Whether you are a debtor or a creditor, we help with structuring, negotiating, documenting, closing, administering, restructuring, and working out loans.

Our team is experienced in California real estate lending law — collateral protection, debt realization, and lender liability — and in the state's anti-deficiency and "one action" rules. We routinely structure transactions and security documents to minimize tax impact and maximize collateral availability in the event of default.

Working alongside our tax and corporate attorneys, we offer California, Nevada, Delaware, and foreign companies a broad range of services — structuring development and investment activities and entities, implementing business plans, and handling fundamental business formations. We advise on the full range of entity choices, including joint ventures, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations. Because partnership, collaboration, and equity investment carry significant business and legal consequences, we help clients structure them to meet their financial, operational, and tax goals.

We advise distressed property owners and investors across California and Nevada on restructuring and workouts — transactional and insolvency/restructuring matters, negotiation and pre-litigation counseling, debtors' and creditors' rights, remedies, and tax planning. The goal is the best business and tax outcome available, while preserving flexibility if litigation or insolvency becomes necessary.

Our real estate tax planning spans every stage of real estate — acquisition, development, construction, and sale — including dealer-versus-investor status, tax investment strategy, tax characterization of expenditures, succession planning, debt leveraging and debt relief (CODI), tax credits, tax elections, tax-deferred exchanges, and planning for dispositions. We also represent real estate clients before the IRS, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA), the Franchise Tax Board, and county Assessment Appeals Boards. For the full picture, see our Real Estate Tax Services page.