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REAL ESTATE
The Real Estate practice area provides its clients with professional services in real estate transactions - commercial and residential - including acquisition, financing, development, leasing, disposition and dispute resolution. In particular, our expertise is in:
- Real estate-secured financing representing lenders and borrowers, including all aspects of document preparation and review;
- Commercial, retail, and office leasing;
- Environmental and related matters, including compliance with federal, state, and local regulations;
- Real estate investments by foreign individuals and entities;
- Secured lending, including deeds of trust, mortgages, and real estate contracts;
- Judicial and non-judicial foreclosures and forfeitures;
- Landlord-tenant relationships;
- Joint ventures, syndications, limited liability companies, and general and limited partnerships;
- Litigation and arbitration of real property disputes such as quiet title, condemnation, adverse possession, and boundary disputes.
Since time is of the essence in most real estate transactional matters, the real estate practice places special emphasis upon the expeditious and responsive handling of client requests. Examples of real estate transactions handled by the firm include:
- Development of a resort hotel/lodge facility in Ketchikan, Alaska. This project involved real estate acquisition; the negotiation and documentation of equity funding; conventional construction and permanent financing; and the negotiation and documentation of management/operating contracts for the lodge involving an Alaska hotel chain. The lodge continues to operate successfully and has become a vacation destination in southeast Alaska.
- Acquisition of the northwest division of a national supermarket chain involving the purchase of approximately 40 retail supermarkets.
- Representation of developers of small hydroelectric projects in Washington and Alaska, including project development and financing.
- Representation of a multinational conglomerate in establishing product distribution in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and South America, including related intellectual property and financial issues.
- Representation of Taiwan based manufacturing company in establishing a base of operations in the United States through acquisition of real estate holdings in the Northwest.
- Negotiation, documentation, and resolution of a multimillion dollar tax liability and related issues arising out of Alaska Native NOL transactions.
- Representation of an institutional lender in a residential low-income housing transaction involving issuance of tax-free revenue bonds by the Seattle Housing Authority.
- Assisted Seattle based private real estate investment firm in building and expanding its portfolio of commercial, multi-family residential, retail, and industrial properties in the Northwest and Southern California, having a total value in excess of $100 million.
- Represented seller in structuring, documenting and closing a $10 million sale of a Seattle based wholesale distribution and engineering service business serving Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, Utah and portions of Wyoming, Montana and Nevada.
- Assisted major wireless communications company with the assimilation of over 75 partnership entities following acquisition of regional wireless company serving mountain time zone states.
- Assisted Seattle based family-owned regional wholesale distributor in transitioning business ownership to third generation. The company has been continuously operated under family ownership and control for over one hundred years.
- Represented large Seattle medical office with sale of its eastside branch practice to new ownership.
- Represented Seattle based investment firm in structuring new entities to provide private financing to contractors in connection with the clean-up and reconstruction of New Orleans and other storm damaged areas of the gulf coast.
- Advised Seattle based garment industry firm in structuring business relationships and strategic alignments with manufacturers located in Korea and the Philippines.
- Recently completed multiple commercial real estate acquisitions, IRC Section 1031 exchanges and mortgage financing transactions in excess of $50 million.
- Assisted major engineering service company and manufacturer’s representative with transition of business to new ownership.
- Representation of non-profit senior living and care organization with major expansion of its facilities, including facilities acquisition, leasing and project financing.
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