Real Estate
Miskel Backman LLP’s real estate practice is a cornerstone of the firm and a recognized participate in the industry.
Property developers, lenders, investment managers, private equity funds, operators, joint ventures, and private owners look to us for diversified and broad real estate related legal services. We apply our skills to the full cycle of a real estate deal, providing a holistic approach for our clients. We handle property acquisition and investment, development, management and leasing, financing, restructuring, and disposition of all asset classes of real estate. We advise on a broad spectrum of commercial, recreational, and residential real estate. We have a skilled legal team, including attorneys who have lead major developments within the industry.
This results in well-versed experience in the unique but often independent areas associated with of real estate matters, including leasing. The attorneys in our real estate leasing group have years of landlord and tenant experience negotiating office, retail, industrial and other commercial leases including ground leases, net leases, operating leases, master leases and subleases, build-to-suit leases, sale and leaseback transactions, as well as the extension, modification, and disposition of leases.
We also advise clients on matters pertaining to reciprocal easement agreements, development agreements, and option agreements, and are able counsel clients on matters concerning landlord and tenant disputes, restructuring and zoning and land use matters. Among the clients we represent in connection with leasing matters are shopping center and office building developers and owners, retailers, private equity companies, commercial tenants, and property managers.
Our lawyers also have experience with a wide range of commercial real estate loans with varying maturities, leverage ratios and debt service coverage ratios, and other financial covenants. We understand the objectives of financial institutions’ lending programs, and offer an experienced perspective through our lawyers’ knowledge of the capital markets, the wider financial industry and real estate cycles. A variety of clients including banks seek our counsel on matters concerning Senior Mortgage Loans, Construction Loans, Syndicated Credit Facilities and Participations, CMBS Loans, Purchase Money Financing, Letters of Credit, Revolving Credit Facilities, and Loan Workouts and Restructures.