Practice Areas & Industries: Lewis and Roca LLP

Real estate transactions – buying, selling, leasing, investing in or financing an office, industrial or commercial building, property or a combination of them – are among the biggest and most important steps businesses take. Such deals are always complex, and the mix of financial, regulatory and operational issues is unique for each project in every geographic area. Lewis and Roca understands that our clients require that deals are done effectively and efficiently. No matter what your industry involvement – national institutional investors (such as insurance companies and pension funds), financial institutions, land developers, commercial unit operators, restaurants and other commercial establishments – Lewis and Roca will provide you with lawyers who know the real estate industry and are familiar with the process of taking complex deals from negotiation to completion. The result is the right combination of business advice and legal focus to complete deals in a way that makes sense for all parties involved.

Smart money will know when to come back into the real estate market and when they do, Lewis and Roca will be ready to assist them with its newly formed Distressed Real Estate Acquisition and Management Team. The group has been developed as a rapid reaction team that will be ready, willing and able to counsel, advise and assist clients in acquiring, owning and ultimately disposing of real estate assets impacted by this troubled economy.

Lewis and Roca’s Hospitality Team counsels owners, developers, operators and managers of hotel and other hospitality properties regarding all aspects of their business ventures throughout the United States and abroad. In providing exemplary cost efficient legal representation to fully serve the needs of our clients, our attorneys seamlessly draw on the extraordinary breadth and depth of Lewis and Roca’s Banking and Lending, Corporate and Securities, Environmental and Natural Resources, Labor and Employment, Land Use and Zoning, Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate and Tribal Affairs and Gaming service groups.

Lewis and Roca has an extensive real estate practice. The firm's real estate practice is diverse, and encompasses land acquisition and development, acquisitions of income-producing and all other types of real estate, portfolio acquisitions, commercial leasing, land use, owners' associations, master planned communities, mortgage lending and other real estate finance transactions, foreclosure, loan work-outs and restructurings. The lawyers within (or available to) the Real Estate Practice Group also advise clients on the corporate, partnership, limited liability company and other entity aspects of a particular transaction.

Lewis and Roca represents lenders, borrowers, investors and guarantors in a broad range of real estate financings. We counsel local banks, regional banks from the Southwest and other parts of the country, national banks, insurance companies, conduit lenders, finance companies, mortgage companies and other institutional lenders in all aspects of the origination, modification and restructuring of loans secured by interests in real estate. Our attorneys have represented lenders in acquisition and development loans, construction loans, permanent loans and other creative loan structures relating to single-asset and portfolio loan transactions involving all types of commercial properties, including office, retail, industrial, multifamily, residential, condominium, mixed-use and hospitality properties. We handle all aspects of a real estate loan transaction from structuring, developing and negotiating loan documentation, to conducting diligence and perfecting liens and security interests in collateral, to loan participations, syndications and intercreditor agreements in multi-lender transactions.