Real Estate

In a volatile economy, real estate acts as both an attractive investment opportunity and a strategic pillar of growth for companies looking to optimize performance. In this competitive marketplace, clients demand speed, skill, and specialized talent from the professionals leading their real estate transactions.

HOW WE HELP

Seyfarth is home to a world-class real estate team that serves sophisticated clients across a number of industries. Recognized as one of the largest real estate practices in the US, we have experts in each of the largest money center markets across the country. We leverage our size and depth to partner with clients and to invest in material enhancements in how commercial real estate law is practiced. We have built an integrated national team that serves clients on a local, regional, or national basis.

Clients benefit from our depth and leading edge expertise across all dimensions of real estate. We regularly serve clients on the acquisition, financing, development, leasing, restructuring, and disposition of noteworthy real estate assets and portfolios. Seyfarth’s Real Estate team handles matters across a comprehensive array of asset classes, including office, industrial, multifamily, retail, health care, and data center projects.

Our clients include developers, banks, life companies, pension funds, private equity funds, debt funds, joint ventures, and retailers. Clients look to us to handle everything from a single purchase to a large portfolio transaction, and from one-off transactions to national, strategic partnerships for Fortune 500 companies.

Seyfarth’s Real Estate team attracts and retains the best talent by providing the best platform for commercial real estate lawyers. The best platform includes reasonable rate structures, exceptional practitioners who have access to exhaustive training and resources and outstanding support in ancillary practice areas. We routinely call upon the depth and expertise of our construction, tax, public finance, incentives, land use, environmental, derivatives, ADA, fund formation, and public-private partnership teams, and other disciplines critical to serving a sophisticated real estate client base. Our lawyers keep abreast of market trends and are well versed in complex structures. We regularly share that national market expertise with our clients.

The firm’s geographic platform provides many advantages to our clients. We seamlessly move work across jurisdictions to staff matters with the right person for the job. Our dedicated teams leverage best practices and institutional knowledge to become an extension of the client’s team.

THE SEYFARTH EXPERIENCE

Clients that work with Seyfarth find value in our creative structuring advice for highly complex and sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. We share a culture of client service and a mindset that puts clients first. This focus creates dealmakers who are aggressive in representing our clients, but help our clients win with preparation, execution, and expertise. We strive to treat all parties with the respect and consideration that facilitates smooth transactions.

Clients working with our Real Estate team have come to expect a unique combination of deep legal expertise, efficient staffing, and applied technology that enhances communication and deal flow. The team works with each client to tailor the firm’s delivery resources to create solutions that meet their unique needs.

Technology. The team uses Seyfarth Link as a web platform to connect with clients virtually which provides best-in class collaboration and seamless communication. Link encourages faster resolution of deal issues and the negotiation process. It also offers data visualization capabilities for issue spotting. Finally, it has become a valuable repository of data for many clients.

Creative Staffing. Our Real Estate Due Diligence Hub is a dedicated team of attorneys, paralegals, and support staff who handle the cumbersome, often cost sensitive work associated with the due diligence phase of commercial real estate transactions. We offer a suite of services, including title, survey, and zoning review, as well as lease abstracting, and tenant estoppel preparation; all performed by highly-skilled and experienced reviewers overseen by experienced relationship partners.

Industry Participation. Members of Seyfarth’s Real Estate department participate in a number of the commercial real estate industry’s most influential organizations, including Real Estate Roundtable, CRE Finance Council, Mortgage Bankers Association, CREW, ULI, and ICSC, to name a few. Our participation ensures that we are at the forefront of the important issues and trends facing our clients, helping to drive the discussion and shape the policies in the industry.

2024 Real Estate Market Sentiment Survey

Now in its 9th year, our survey asks CRE executives to weigh in on their top concerns, investment priorities, and key catalysts for change. Download below.