Practice Capabilities
Loeb & Loeb LLP's Real Estate Group provides a broad range of sophisticated legal and counseling services. The Real Estate Group has always been an important part of our firm, and our tax, environmental, litigation, bankruptcy and creditors' rights attorneys have extensive experience in the real estate aspects of their respective fields of expertise.
Our real estate practice involves commercial, multifamily, office, industrial, hospitality and residential properties throughout the country and abroad in the following types of matters and transactions:
Our national team of attorneys handles the following types of transactions, among other matters:
- Real estate finance, including acquisition, development and construction loans; "miniperm" loans; permanent commercial mortgage loans; mezzanine loans; and conduit loans
- Leasing of all asset classes for both tenants and landlords, with a particular emphasis on office and retail space
- Acquisitions and sales
- Partnerships, joint ventures and limited liability company agreements
- Environmental issues, including brownfields development, due diligence reviews and negotiation of risk allocation and transfer mechanisms, green building and lease issues, and environmental cleanups
- Creditors' rights, workouts and restructuring
- Mortgage banking issues, including licensing as well as purchases and sales of mortgage servicing rights and mortgages, including forward commitments
- Credit-enhancement facilities for tax-exempt and taxable bonds
Clients and Industries
We represent a wide variety of clients in the real estate industry, including financial institutions acting as lenders, investors or credit enhancers; institutional, corporate and individual buyers and sellers of real estate; developers; landlords; tenants; and mortgage bankers. Clients include major banks, national retailers and one of the nation's largest apartment real estate investment trusts.
Representative clients include:
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- Fidelity National Title Insurance Company
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- Fidelity National Financial
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- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
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- Research Foundation of CUNY
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- Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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- Summit Commercial Properties
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- Thomson Reuters Corporation
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- The Bank of New York
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We handle virtually all types of commercial leases and subleases for a variety of usages, including office and retail space, restaurants, fitness centers, museums and public buildings, libraries, schools, warehouse and distribution facilities, and industrial and manufacturing facilities.
Our Real Estate Group also negotiates restaurant leases and food service agreements, including:
- Representation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., in a 20-year catering agreement with RA/Patina LLC
- Representation of Culinary Concepts by Jean-Georges LLC in leases for the W Atlanta-Midtown Hotel and the St. Regis Mexico City
- Representation of Culinary Concepts by Jean-Georges LLC in management agreements for restaurants in Istanbul and Doha
- Representation of Suarez Restaurant Group in a joint venture for a Manhattan restaurant
- Representation of National Sports Attraction LLC in a 10-year catering agreement with Restaurant Associates LLC for events in the Sports Museum of America
Service Approach
Our goal is to help our clients make informed and successful legal and business decisions. Because of the volume of deals we handle every year, we have developed efficient and responsive teams that provide business-oriented and practical advice.
Leadership in Law
Attorneys in our Real Estate Group have received high praise in the annual Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business, which ranks lawyers and law practices through interviews with clients and competitors. Client references from Chambers have cited our "supremely talented" real estate attorneys' “impressive technical skills and depth of experience in successfully negotiating large and complicated transactions.” Our attorneys are regularly featured in real estate and legal trade publications, and members of the group have also been recognized in Super Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America® and other leading law firm referral guides.