Real Estate
Elias Group LLP has extensive and diversified experience in all facets of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions; ground, office, warehouse and retail leases; governmental approvals, land assemblage and development; construction of office buildings, shopping centers, laboratories, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, multi-use developments; and brownfield redevelopments.
Elias Group LLP serves major national clients, including developers, owners, tenants and construction companies. We also represent corporations and businesses that, although primarily engaged in other fields, have substantial real estate needs. We work with clients not only in structuring and negotiating transactions, but also in the nuts and bolts of bringing deals to fruition and navigating projects through the maze of corporate and governmental regulation and bureaucracy.
Our real estate services include:
- Brownfield Redevelopment: Elias Group LLP has helped clients resolve complex environmental, regulatory, and real estate issues associated with “brownfield” properties, where redevelopment is complicated by contamination problems. We cover the full range of business needs, including complete transactional support (i.e., permitting, regulatory approvals and financing) through dispute resolution and litigation support.
- Acquisitions and Dispositions: Elias Group LLP has a multi-state practice in the acquisition and sale of commercial real estate. We are regularly involved on behalf of the buyers and sellers in an array of purchase and sale transactions. Our expertise include directing and performing multidisciplinary due diligence for the acquisition of commercial properties and negotiating and drafting of purchase and sale agreements. We also advise our clients in the creation of joint venture agreements, construction, and architectural contracts.
- Commercial Leasing: Elias Group LLP has represented owners and tenants in their lease negotiations, including retail leases for anchor and in-line retail space as well as leases for office, industrial, and warehouse properties. We have negotiated retail leases for multi-store national tenants, and big box tenants. We handle matters ranging from complex, multi-state transactions to routine, smaller scale leasing transactions with expertise and efficiency.
- Financing Transactions: As borrower’s and lender’s counsel, Elias Group LLP has considerable expertise in financings and re-financings of a large number of development properties, operating office and retail shopping centers and single tenant net leased properties throughout the United States. We have dealt with a wide variety of institutional and local lenders. The firm’s experience in this area has allowed our clients to strike a balance between the lender’s institutional strictures and the borrower’s ability to develop and operate its property with maximum flexibility. Such financing transactions have included traditional single-lender mortgage loans, syndicated mortgage loans, bond-type financing, credit tenant financing, conduit financing, mezzanine loans, and construction loans.
Our real estate services group creates and enhances asset value through proactive management, strategic decision-making, and relationship development.
