Halloran & Sage LLP

The Real Estate attorneys at Halloran & Sage represent clients in structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing real estate acquisitions, dispositions and leasing transactions. We draft options, purchase-and-sale agreements and conveyancing documents. Our attorneys assist clients in due diligence investigations and provide counsel regarding compliance with applicable laws, including environmental and land-use laws and regulations and filing and registration requirements. We also assist real estate owners and lenders in distressed property transactions, including foreclosures and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure. We counsel clients regarding the tax impacts of real estate transactions and evaluate options to maximize after-tax returns on real estate investments, including tax-free or tax-deferred exchanges.

We represent business clients in a wide variety of commercial leasing transactions. Our experience includes negotiating and drafting office, retail, industrial and ground leases; preparing leasehold mortgages and ground lessor consent agreements; sale-leaseback transactions; and sublease and lease assignment transactions. Our construction and real estate lawyers regularly assist landlords and tenants with lease-related matters, including negotiating architectural and construction contracts for tenant improvements, and negotiating and drafting real estate brokerage commission and listing agreements.

A particular strength of our firm is in assisting clients in evaluating environmental risk in real estate transactions. We assist in due diligence investigations, assess liability risks and advise on specific client needs for environmental insurance coverage. Our extensive experience, which includes numerous transactions for clients involving Brownfield properties, enables us to manage our clients’ environmental risks.

Halloran & Sage is fully committed to enhancing ethnic and cultural diversity within our firm. Diversity encourages enriched thinking, varied perspectives and insightful solutions, all of which are critical components in providing superior service to our clients. Through our recruitment, retention and development, our goal is to build a firm that reflects the diverse community in which we live and work.

In order to achieve meaningful and lasting progress toward this goal, we have pledged the firm's full philosophical and financial support. To carry out this pledge, we have created a senior-level Diversity Committee, which is charged with the oversight of all diversity initiatives throughout our firm. Key facets of our diversity initiatives are:

• Recruitment. We actively recruit summer associates, first-year associates and lateral attorneys from a variety of ethnic    and cultural backgrounds. We participate in several collaborative relationships and initiatives that further this goal.
• Retention. We strive to create and maintain an environment that promotes ethnic and cultural diversity over the long term.
• Development and advancement. Our attorneys are active in numerous organizations that support the professional    development and advancement of attorneys from diverse backgrounds.
• Community. As one of Connecticut's largest law firms, we are committed to making a difference in our community. We    dedicate time, talent and financial resources to a range of programs and events that foster and celebrate our community's diversity.