Oved & Oved LLP's Real Estate Practice represents real estate owners, developers, operators and lenders throughout the country in all aspects of real estate acquisitions and dispositions, and the ownership, development, financing, leasing, management and operation of real property. Our clients include investors (both domestic and foreign) developers, financial institutions, full service real estate operating companies and large corporate and institutional investors such as real estate investment trusts, insurance companies and pension funds. We routinely guide and instruct our clients in all aspects of their transactions.
Our transactions involve every type of property, including office, retail, industrial, residential and hotels. We have established an excellent reputation with both domestic and foreign clients for our use of innovative structures, techniques and strategies, especially in coordinating the relationship between real estate and other disciplines, such as securities regulation, tax, bankruptcy and restructuring and environmental law.
Our attorneys have years of Real Estate experience and are able to provide efficient, economic and streamlined representation in real estate transactions.
The firm has an extensive and diverse commercial real estate practice that includes representation of clients in connection with all facets of the acquisition, disposition, financing, development, leasing and operation of all types of real property, including:
- Apartment complexes
- Convenience stores
- Office buildings
- Hospitals
- Hotels
- Industrial and manufacturing facilities
- Residential developments
- Medical facilities
- Mixed-use developments
- Resort properties
- Restaurants
- Service stations
- Shopping and retail centers
- Unimproved land
Clients include:
- Architects and building contractors
- Banks and other lending institutions
- Commercial and residential developers
- Investors (domestic and foreign)
- Management companies
- Multifamily developers
- National and regional retail companies
- Office building developers
- Public and privately held companies
- Real estate brokerage companies
- Real estate investment trusts
- Retail and office tenants
- Shopping center developers
Specific areas of extensive experience include:
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Commercial leasing
- Condominium formation and development
- Construction contracts
- Development
- Financing
- Foreclosures
- Land-use, zoning and condemnation
- Loan restructuring and workouts
- Multifamily housing acquisition, development, and financing
- Office building acquisition and leasing
- Partnerships and joint ventures
- Retail leasing
- Sale/leasebacks
- Shopping center acquisition, development, and leasing
- Synthetic leasing (off-balance sheet financing)
- Tax free exchanges
Our attorneys represent owners in land-use and zoning-related litigation matters, in addition to condemnation, real estate tax reassessment appeals and condominium conversions.
Because Oved & Oved is a multifaceted, full service law firm, our real estate attorneys consistently draw upon the knowledge of other attorneys in different departments (including corporate, bankruptcy, intellectual property, and litigation) to effectively deal with a variety of issues that regularly arise in real estate transactions.
We have a particular aptitude in Real Estate related litigation matters, such as:
Real Estate Finance Litigation
Tapping into a deep knowledge base of financial analysis, valuation of property and assets, deal and corporate structures, debt and equity financing, and complex transactions related to the commercial real estate industry, Oved & Oved LLP's litigators have successfully represented financial services companies, developer groups and investment entities in real estate finance litigation. In court actions, arbitrations and mediations across the country, Oved & Oved LLP attorneys have represented clients with respect to asserting or defending against claims of breach of contract or putative duties, negligence and fraud and statutory causes of action.
Real Estate Construction Litigation
Our attorneys advise numerous construction industry clients, including general contractors and sub-contractors, architects, engineers, developers, owners, lenders and suppliers, on a wide variety of business and litigation matters. In the construction litigation area, we handle cases ranging from straightforward mechanics' lien claims and payment disputes to highly complex matters involving substantial defects in major commercial structures, including nuclear power plant and skyscraper construction projects. The firm has provided litigation counsel in numerous high-profile construction disputes.
Real Estate Finance Litigation and Workout Group
The commercial real estate market has reached a crisis point. Oved & Oved LLP has developed a group to respond to the crisis in the commercial real estate industry. Over $1.4 trillion in commercial real estate loans are poised to reach term limits between 2010 and 2014; over half of the loans are considered "underwater." Commercial property values have decreased almost 40% since the beginning of 2007. Borrowers, developers, private lenders and investors are scrambling to limit losses as loans come to term secured by property and assets worth less than their original value, at a scale "virtually unprecedented," according to a recent report.
Attorneys in this group possess significant experience in all phases of commercial real estate transactions, litigation and arbitration and are focused on finding the most favorable solutions for our clients hardest hit by the financial crisis. The firm brings together a set of experienced attorneys from Oved & Oved LLP's Real Estate, Litigation, Corporate and Bankruptcy practices. At all stages of potential fallout between deal makers, from transaction to trial, our attorneys have the requisite transactional breadth and litigation skills to protect clients' interests and achieve excellent results.
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