COMMERCIAL LENDING AND REAL ESTATE

The Commercial and Real Estate Transactions Group expertly handles the details necessary to carry out the most complex commercial and real estate transactions. Working in close contact with the firm’s corporate and tax professionals, our practice includes:

• Commercial and secured transactions
• Lender representation
• Acquisitions
• Dispositions
• Like-kind exchanges
• Leasing and development of real estate.

For those involved in the construction, development, purchase or sale of real estate, we provide unparalleled expertise. Our proficiency includes matters related to:

• contract negotiation
• financing
• selection and formation of business entities
• conducting due diligence reviews
• foreclosures
• environmental matters
• debt reorganizations
• workouts
• sophisticated tax-deferred exchanges.

We have recently represented:

A national bank in various "roll-up" acquisition loans, including a mezzanine second-tier lender and third-tier seller/financing, totaling in excess of $35 million.
Multiple owners/developers of large apartment complexes involving capital market conduit loans in excess of $50 million.

A publicly traded, national developer/operator/owner of assisted living facilities, in the acquisition and development of over 15 sites in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, involving an investment in excess of $40 million.

Various local owner/developers in obtaining capital market conduit loans in excess of $100 million for the development of commercial retail shopping centers and single tenant outparcel security loans.

A local developer/borrower in structuring acquisition and financing of a $100 million Charlotte residential development and country club.

Numerous owners/sellers in the structuring and implementation of multi-faceted tax-deferred like-kind exchanges and involuntary conversions involving the deferral of over $200 million in tax.