Commercial Real Estate

Our Commercial Real Estate group offers legal expertise and business counseling to help you buy, sell, finance, lease and develop commercial property. Our real estate practice and its lawyers have been consistently recognized in Chambers USA as a "Band One" firm, The Best Lawyers in America®, Super Lawyers®, U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” and Benchmark Litigation.

With the benefit of our project-financing experience and our Construction and Land Use teams, we structure stand-alone and multistate projects and assist longstanding corporate clients with a myriad of real estate matters. We represent developers, investors, lenders, landlords and tenants in office, industrial and retail deals.

Representation of developer of signature Charlotte office tower in negotiation of anchor lease and major tenant leases
Representation of large southeastern convenience store company in acquisitions of numerous convenience store businesses throughout the southeast
Representation of national banks in connection with acquisition, development and construction financing
Representation of insurance companies in connection with permanent financing
Representation of major contract research organization in lease negotiations throughout the world
Representation of large restaurant franchisee in acquisition and financing of existing restaurants and sites for development of new restaurants
Representation of major restaurant industry food and merchandise distributor in negotiation of warehouse leases throughout the United States
Representation of shopping center owner in connection with refinancing of debt on numerous shopping center properties in Research Triangle Park region
Representation of private equity real estate fund in acquisition, disposition and leasing of retail and hotel assets nationwide
Representation of major pharmaceutical company in the sale and leaseback of office and laboratory campus in Research Triangle Park area
Representation of national bank in sale/leaseback of 100 branch bank sites in the southeast