Acquisitions, Dispositions & Institutional Investments

Successful real estate transactions demand skill, speed, and attention to business, financial, and legal details. Clients look to our team of real estate advisors to bring value to each transaction and to protect their investments.

HOW WE HELP

Seyfarth attorneys serve as trusted advisors to public and private pension funds, insurance companies, REITs, family offices, private equity firms, and foreign and other institutional investors in complex real estate acquisition and disposition transactions involving core, core-plus, value-add, and ground-up development properties.

We represent investors, sponsors, and joint venture platforms across the full life cycle of investments. We drive value in sophisticated transactions by pairing commercial insight with legal precision, drawing on a deep bench of seasoned real estate and cross‑disciplinary practitioners. Our lawyers have helped clients buy and sell properties ranging from multibillion‑dollar portfolio transactions to single‑asset acquisitions and dispositions across all major asset classes, including ground-up developments.

We understand the nuances across commercial real estate transactions, including multifamily, industrial, office, retail, health care, senior living, and mixed-use assets. We also have significant depth in specialty-use properties such as data centers and sports and entertainment venues. Our integrated platform enables us to seamlessly address related considerations—environmental, construction, tax, corporate, finance, labor and employment—delivering a coordinated, efficient approach to even the most complex matters. Our national team routinely represents clients in acquisitions and dispositions of income-producing and development properties, and advises on the structuring and execution of co-investments, joint ventures, and private and public REITs. We work closely with clients to align transactions with their investment strategies and risk parameters, fiduciary issues as affected by ERISA, state pension codes and regulations, UBTI considerations, and when applicable, REIT compliance rules and structure investments for foreign investors to minimize exposure to US laws, including tax laws.

THE SEYFARTH EXPERIENCE

We are proud of our long list of decade-old clients who trust us. Our client relationships are grounded in collaboration, responsiveness, and a deep understanding of their business objectives. Our aim is to provide consistent, high‑quality execution with lean, experienced teams. In some cases, Seyfarth is brought in to assess and enhance previously negotiated transactions, identifying opportunities to optimize structures, mitigate risk, and improve tax efficiency. Our goal is to deliver strategic, solutions‑oriented counsel that advances our clients’ broader business and investment goals.

Due Diligence Hub. For larger portfolio acquisition transactions we bring in Seyfarth’s Due Diligence Hub, a dedicated team of attorneys, paralegals, and support staff who handle the cumbersome, cost-sensitive work associated with the due diligence phase of acquisitions. We offer a variety of services, including review of title, survey, REAs, zoning, and lease abstracting, performed by highly-skilled and experienced reviewers. By focusing exclusively on the due diligence phase of commercial transactions, we can offer customized, efficient due diligence services and the highest-quality work product, while allowing for cost predictability. The flexible structure of the team allows them to scale staffing as needed, based on the timeline and volume of the assignment, and the client’s budgetary concerns.