Real Estate
Meyers Nave’s Real Estate Practice attorneys serve the transaction, regulatory compliance and litigation needs of real estate owners, lenders, investors, developers, landlords, tenants and planners. We advise on the purchase, development, ownership, use, encumbering and transfer of land and real property interests. Our clients include business entities, public agencies, family offices, nonprofits and public-private partnerships. We serve clients from offices in six major economic regions in California.
We work on all types of real estate projects – commercial, industrial, residential, mixed-use, transit-oriented development, hospitality, retail, restaurant, entertainment and sports venues, healthcare and education. Our attorneys guide clients through all aspects of real estate law for projects on all types of improved and unimproved land, including brownfield, greenfield, infill, redevelopment, and public use.
We bring a 360 degree perspective based on experience representing all stakeholders in real estate transactions and litigation. We can anticipate each party’s interests and concerns and we help clients achieve a wide range of financial objectives and business goals. Our transaction advice is strategic and practical, and our litigators leverage their experience representing clients as defendants and plaintiffs.
TRANSACTIONS
Meyers Nave assists clients with a comprehensive range of real estate transactions. For example, we help structure, negotiate and close purchases, sales, sale-leasebacks, easements, licenses, and tax-deferred exchanges on all types of developed and undeveloped land, as well as conduct due diligence investigations and structure and negotiate financing and ground leasing agreements associated with these transactions. We help clients protect their interests, minimize liability, and meet their goals in a manner that facilitates the consummation of the agreement and furthers our clients’ business plan.
Our transactions experience includes acquisitions, dispositions and sale-leasebacks; Economic Development Benefits agreements (including disposition and development agreements and community benefit agreements); Development, redevelopment and rehabilitation; due diligence investigations; property encumbrances including easements; financing documents, including state and federal funds and tax credits; ground leases; leasing, licenses, assignment and subletting; partnership agreements for ownership, development and operations; property management and operations; and relocation (residential and commercial).
LITIGATION
Meyers Nave litigation attorneys have significant experience resolving real estate disputes on behalf of property owners, lenders, investors and developers. We have extensive experience in litigation in state and federal courts including contract claims, tort claims and non-compliance claims under the Uniform Commercial Code. Our dispute resolution experience also includes mediation, settlement conferences, and arbitration.
We litigate real estate and real estate-secured transactions involving bad faith negotiation of terms; breach of contract (sale, purchase, lease); commercial evictions; easements; environmental compliance; fraud and misrepresentation; housing, subdivision, and density bonus; land use and zoning disputes; partnership disputes; permitting process, administrative procedures and proceedings; insurance coverage; construction disputes; and ADA matters.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE: TRANSACTIONS
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE: LITIGATION