Real Estate
Counsel that delivers present and future value in real estate
Capabilities at a glance
- A team of more than 75 attorneys and legal professionals working collaboratively for clients across the country.
- Full range of real estate legal services delivered with national reach and local knowledge.
- A Chambers-ranked Real Estate Practice Group that benefits from attorneys with a diverse range of legal backgrounds, including tax, environmental and commercial litigation law.
- Described by clients as "insightful, intelligent, responsive, thorough, detailed and accurate … When they answer our questions, it fits our business specifically."
Your strategic partners on every aspect of real estate law
Just as no two real estate transactions are alike, our clients come to the negotiating table with many perspectives and goals. Yet every client needs legal solutions that make business sense. We invest the time to understand what’s driving the deal, the project, the operational challenge or the dispute in front of you — but we want to know what your medium and long-term goals are, too. You can expect the best real estate legal insight delivered with optimal efficiency and effectiveness. We pride ourselves on helping you look at the big picture, while we take care of the often-complex regulations and sophisticated technical knowledge required to get real estate transactions and projects completed with a minimum of risk and fuss. Our goal always will be to help you build and protect the present and future value of your business.
Extensive experience with a range of real estate objectives and assets
Broadly speaking, our clients form three distinct groups:
- Clients for whom real estate is their primary business, including developers, builders, contractors and property managers.
- Clients for whom real estate is both an asset and a business requirement, such as manufacturers, retailers, service providers and developers of natural resources.
- Clients for whom real estate is primarily a financial investment, including real estate investment trusts (REIT), venture capitalists, financial institutions and other lenders, and mutual funds.
Our experience covers a diverse spectrum of industries and asset types, including but not limited to data centers, financial institutions, franchise, health care, hospitality, manufacturing, multifamily, nonprofit and retail, such as big-box retailers and shopping centers.
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Real Estate Focus Areas
Acquisitions and Dispositions
We’re here to help you get your real estate deal done, however complex. Our Acquisitions and Dispositions team covers all dimensions of single asset and portfolio commercial real estate sales and purchases, from pre-contract analysis and transaction structuring to document negotiation, due diligence, closing and post-closing follow-through. We will assemble a solutions-oriented, dedicated team specifically tailored to your business goals.
Commercial Construction
Whether you are in the beginning stages of your construction project or somewhere along the path to completion, let us help you reach the destination sooner. We also take a collaborative approach to contract negotiation and team formation, enabling us to create or negotiate contract documents that protect our client’s most important interests, while recognizing that language that inappropriately allocates project-related risks is often counterproductive.
Data Centers
We know the round-the-clock operations of data centers require complex systems with an extremely high level of security and redundancy, including critical operational and backup power, cooling, bandwidth and security. Our lawyers understand these operational details and requirements, as well as the relevant legal issues and concerns that require experienced, thoughtful counsel to maximize the success of your data center project. We know how to get deals done, while providing effective legal advice to protect our clients’ interests.
Land Use, Zoning and Development
We know from experience that a deep understanding of local politics helps our clients’ businesses thrive. Our Land Use, Zoning and Development team maintains relationships with planning departments, city councils and county boards of supervisors across the U.S. in order to effectively advocate for and obtain the entitlements necessary for our clients' specific developments and uses.
Leasing
Quarles regularly represents both landlords and tenants in the leasing of all types of commercial properties throughout the country. We pride ourselves on providing practical, thorough and responsive services to our clients. We view commercial leasing and asset management work as a core component of our Real Estate Practice Group and, because we understand the marketplace and the speed at which deals tend to move, we strive to consistently deliver high quality legal services on a timely basis.
Real Estate and Construction Litigation
We offer our clients effective action that minimizes the costs and risks associated with lengthy real estate disputes, but we never sacrifice high quality legal counsel in the interests of speed. Our Real Estate and Construction Litigation team also understands the complex issues that can impede major building projects. We regularly review, draft and help negotiate clear, understandable contracts in order to minimize the likelihood of confusion or disagreements.
Real Estate Finance
We deliver sharp, no-nonsense legal solutions efficiently and with your business objectives always front and center. Our integrated national platform enables us to cost-effectively handle a wide variety of real estate financing matters, from routine single-property financings to complex multijurisdictional, multiple debt level, participated and syndicated financings, workouts and enforcement matters.
