Real Estate

Overview

Arent Fox real estate attorneys have advised lenders, borrowers, investors, developers, contractors and other clients with regards to large and complex workouts, dispositions and acquisitions of distressed loans, and distressed real property. We have engineered and negotiated virtually every type of workout and remedy/enforcement arrangement – including loan modifications; forbearance arrangements; foreclosures; deed-in-lieu agreements; release agreements; lease modifications and renegotiations; loan assignments and take-backs; entity restructurings, recapitalizations and takeovers; subordination and other intercreditor agreements; and settlement agreements. We have significant experience dealing with distressed properties of every type and in virtually every region of the United States.

We advise on one-off transactions and large multijurisdictional portfolio financings of multifamily housing, office buildings, hotels and resorts, senior-living facilities, and retail and leisure properties. Arent Fox also represents non-US entities that are investing in the United States and counsels US clients who are engaging in real estate activities overseas.

Our lawyers are well-known for projects involving government entities and nonprofit organizations. We represent owners and lenders in transactions involving urban renewal plans, land-disposition agreements and long-term net leases of municipally owned development sites. We have extensive experience with the various tax-exemption and tax-abatement programs that are often available for these types of transactions and the local zoning laws and restrictions on use and transferability.

Multifamily housing, museums, schools, concert halls and cinemas, sports arenas, transportation facilities, health care facilities and office, retail, industrial facilities, and hotels and resorts – we do it all.