Practice Areas & Industries: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Clients who demand broad legal acumen and innovative thinking to guide their real estate projects from start to finish find those talents in the lawyers at Squire Sanders. Our real estate practice group has structured and finalized real estate transactions for clients around the globe ¿ hotels from Miami's South Beach to Palau, golf courses from Phoenix to Scotland, airports, multifamily developments, mixed-use facilities and power plants from the US Midwest to Venezuela.

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Squire Sanders represents such varied clients as engineers and developers, contractors and commercial landlords, foreign and domestic investors, banks, bond companies, underwriters and public bodies. Our work involves the full spectrum of issues encountered in successfully closing a transaction ¿ negotiating, completing due diligence, documenting and inking contracts.

Our clients in the hospitality industry have needs as diverse as the properties they represent. From acquisition, development and financing, to management, operations and loan workouts, industry clients demand broadminded legal counsel to meet the variety of issues facing them in an expanding hospitality market.

Squire Sanders has a long history of representing hospitality industry clients worldwide ¿developers, owners, operators, franchisers, franchisees and financial institutions ¿ involving hundreds of properties including hotels, resorts and spas, performing arts theaters, sports stadiums and museums, stadiums, snow skiing sites, golf courses, golf and tennis clubs and fractional ownership projects. Additionally, the firm counsels its extensive golf course clientele on land development and use issues, creation of private golf and country club documents, purchasing and selling courses, management and access agreements and trademark protection, among a host of other issues. Our clients have come to regard our lawyers as leading "dealmakers" who know how to analyze and complete transactions successfully, consistent with client goals and objectives.

Squire Sanders lawyers are technically skilled in all areas of real estate transactions, from tax-exempt and variable-rate financing to equity participations and REITs, from construction lending to convertible and contingent-interest mortgages, from synthetic leases to syndications. One of our most significant functions is to develop the financing and ownership structures of a project in order to provide the client maximum benefits while limiting its vulnerability to tax and other liabilities.

Squire Sanders often directs the due diligence for an acquisition and negotiates management and franchise agreements. The firm advises clients on how to deal with or acquire troubled projects and has extensive experience as debtor's counsel, creditor's counsel and creditors committee's counsel.

Our real estate practice group manages complex transactions worldwide. By opening offices, for instance, in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia and the Slovak Republic, Squire Sanders became one of the first law firms to address the growing need for lawyers to provide real estate services to enterprises and institutions in rapidly developing markets outside the US and Western Europe.

The extensive experience of the Squire Sanders real estate team encompasses:

• Acquisitions & Disposition
• Affordable Housing & Development
• Bankruptcy, Workouts & Foreclosures
• Construction
• Financing
• Hotel, Resort & Leisure
• Loan Work
• Management Agreements
• Multifamily Housing
• Private Equity
• Public-Private Partnerships

Clients:
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. , KSL Recration , Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, LLC , Montage Hotels and Resorts , Vail Resorts/RockResorts , Crescent Real Estate Equities, Interstate Hotels , Grand Heritage Hotels , Marriott International, Dayton, Ohio, Airport Revenue Bonds (James M. Cox Dayton International Airport), Garfield Heights City School District, Hudson City School District Lease/Certificates of Participation, Cleveland Municipal School District QZAB Financings, City of Shaker Heights, Ohio, Urban Renewal Bonds, Best Western International, Inc.