Real Estate

We represent some of the region’s leading developers, property owners, and public agencies in commercial real estate development. We assist these clients with acquisition, disposition, development, construction, permitting, financing, management, and leasing of office, industrial, retail, and mixed-use projects.

Our work encompasses complex, multi-dimensional commercial developments, including the EWEB site in Eugene, the North Anchor project in downtown Lake Oswego, the Vancouver Gateway Project in Vancouver, the OMSI Campus in Portland, the South Beach Village–Wilder project in Newport, the Wizer Block in downtown Lake Oswego, the South Waterfront Central District in Portland, the South Park neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, and the Timber Yards mixed use project and the Oregon State University master plans in Bend.

Our attorneys assist developers, property owners, and public agencies with commercial leasing of retail, office, and industrial projects. We have represented owners of office buildings, including downtown office towers, suburban offices, and flex buildings. We negotiate leases with national retailers on behalf of our owner clients and represent tenants negotiating strategically important headquarters and music venue leases. We commonly assist clients with ground lease transactions.

Our attorneys help clients with entity structuring and drafting and negotiating operating agreements, partnership agreements, and tenancy in common agreements on behalf of developers and landowners. Our work in this area includes the preparation of entity documents and other contracts under which equity interests are syndicated, preparation of investor disclosure materials, and compliance with exemption provisions under federal and state securities laws.

We routinely assist borrowers and lenders with a wide variety of real estate financing transactions, negotiating loans from insurance companies, national banks, conduit lenders, and regional banks. This practice includes the negotiation and drafting of loan documents as well as the issuance of legal opinions.

Our attorneys have extensive experience with destination resort entitlement. We assist clients in obtaining destination resort overlay zoning of their property, amendments to local resort standards, compliance with Oregon destination resort statutes, resort master plan approvals, mitigation obligations, master associations and sub-associations, and timeshare and condominium documents.

Our attorneys represent owners in all aspects of the development, acquisition, financing, renovation, leasing and sale of a broad variety of hospitality facilities, including nationally branded hotels, boutique luxury hotels, resort hotels, and convention and conference center hotels.

Our work with hotel owners includes the drafting and negotiation of franchise and management agreements with a broad array of local, regional, national, and international hotel chains, as well as a vast number of other hospitality-related contractual arrangements with restaurants, parking facilities, and providers of other hotel services and amenities. We also have substantial experience representing local and regional hotel management companies in connection with the drafting and negotiation of their contractual arrangements with hotel owners.

Our attorneys assist clients with high-profile public/private partnerships and negotiate complex development agreements that encompass multi-phased commercial real estate developments, sports venues, infrastructure improvements, and mixed-use urban redevelopments. Our clients include private developers, cities, state agencies, universities, and development authorities.

We have a deep understanding of the applicability of Oregon’s prevailing wage laws to the construction of improvements. Representative projects include the EWEB site in Eugene, the North Anchor project in downtown Lake Oswego, the Vancouver Gateway Project in Vancouver, the OMSI Campus in Portland, the South Beach Village–Wilder project in Newport, the expansion of Providence Park in Portland, the Wizer Block in downtown Lake Oswego, and the South Waterfront Central District in Portland.

Our attorneys represent developers, homeowners’ associations, real estate brokers, property owners, and purchasers in every phase of residential development projects. We assist clients in the acquisition, development, financing, leasing, and disposition of condominiums, townhome projects, apartments, and other multifamily and mixed-use residential complexes.

Our experience includes land acquisitions, land use approvals, and negotiating and structuring debt and equity financings. We provide loan documentation, condominium and homeowners’ association documentation for newly constructed and conversion condominiums, and HUD, VA, and Fannie Mae filings. Our attorneys also have significant experience negotiating development agreements with local governments and master developers for projects within planned unit developments.

We help buyers and sellers of real estate structure their transactions as tax-deferred exchanges, including exchanges ranging from garden variety forward exchanges to unusual and complex reverse construction exchanges and syndicated tenancy-in-common exchanges. Our experience in this area allows us to implement virtually any type of exchange transaction while providing valuable pre-exchange strategic planning and realistic tax risk analysis.

Our attorneys regularly represent commercial borrowers in connection with loan workouts and foreclosure avoidance. We also represent buyers of distressed properties and loan portfolios, including assisting these clients with workouts of troubled loans and enforcement of defaulting loans.