Ginsberg Jacobs LLC’s real estate practice provides experienced and customized advice in a broad range of real estate areas. We are client-oriented. The firm’s real estate attorneys work to know each unique client and its particular business – from the entrepreneur to the large, complex corporation, REITs to tenants. We are dealmakers, counselors and skillful negotiators.
Our aim is to assist the client from conception and planning to the execution and ongoing management of real estate and real estate related deals. The real estate practice group works in concert with the other talented legal experts at Ginsberg Jacobs LLC to advise clients on a broad spectrum of real estate and corporate transactions, including financings, acquisitions and sales, exchanges, development and construction, joint ventures, property and hotel management, leasing, debt restructuring and workouts and land use.
FINANCE AND RESTRUCTURING
Finance, including complex structured debt financing, is a substantial segment of Ginsberg Jacobs LLC’s practice. We regularly represent institutional lenders and borrowers in finance transactions involving all types of real property collateral, including acquisition, development/construction and permanent financing, mezzanine lending, structured finance, tenant-in-common financing, loan syndications and participations.
Our attorneys also advise on debt restructuring and reorganization outside of bankruptcy for lenders and borrower alike. We focus on workout solutions, with litigation as a secondary, not primary, strategy.
Ginsberg Jacobs LLC’s lender clients include a number of national banks, including a subsidiary of one of the nation’s largest financial holdings companies and one of the largest commercial banks in the Midwest region. We also regularly assist our developer clients in financing their projects, from solicitation to negotiation of terms through funding.
ACQUISITIONS AND SALES
Traditional real estate purchase and sale transactions are a significant part of Ginsberg Jacobs LLC’ s real estate practice. Our attorneys have represented both sellers and purchasers in Illinois and numerous other states in connection with the sale or purchase of multi-tenant apartment buildings, retail and office complexes, shopping centers and industrial and manufacturing facilities, including portfolio sales. We assist our clients in all aspects of a purchase and sale transaction – structuring and negotiating terms, coordinating thorough and cost-effective due diligence, including zoning and title review and closing. We know our clients like to close their deals and we do too.
Ginsberg Jacobs LLC’s real estate practice has a particular expertise in the sale and acquisition of hotel properties. Our real estate attorneys have been involved in numerous hotel projects in Illinois, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Wisconsin. Our hospitality practice includes acquisition, financing, development, leasing, zoning, ongoing property management and the disposition of all types of lodging properties. We have also negotiated a number of franchise agreements with the largest hotel franchisors in the world on behalf of our franchisee clients.
The firm's real estate practice also includes expertise in the particular legal issues arising from environmentally contaminated properties, including the representation of owners, purchasers and tenants in connection with risk assessment, negotiation of responsibility for ongoing reporting and remediation requirements, and indemnification, access and third party liability issues.
Our real estate attorneys represent a number of multi-family owner/operators, including one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the country in connection with the disposition of Midwest region multi-tenant apartment buildings, including projects involving HUD financing. We also represent entrepreneurial real estate investment and development companies with a particular focus on hotel properties.
HOTELS
Ginsberg Jacobs LLC's real estate practice has a particular expertise in the sale and acquisition of hotel properties. Our real estate attorneys have been involved in hotel projects throughout the US, including Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, California, Colorado, Florida, South Carolina, Florida, Nevada and Wisconsin. Our hospitality practice includes acquisition/disposition, financing, development, leasing, zoning and ongoing property management of all types of lodging properties. We have also negotiated a number of management and franchise agreements with the largest hotel franchisors in the world on behalf of our owner clients.
LEASING AND LAND USE
Ginsberg Jacobs LLC’s leasing work spans all major real estate products and is national in scope. We offer a high level of sophistication and extensive experience to landlord and tenant clients, with a particular focus on retail and office leasing. We regularly represent institutional and entrepreneurial clients in the leasing of a variety of types of real estate including commercial, office, industrial and residential properties. We understand that leases provide a foundation for an ongoing business relationship between our client and the other lease parties that impacts our client’s bottom line.
The firm’s leasing practice includes a particular expertise in telecom leasing and negotiation with urban and rural municipalities and school districts, including the representation of our clients before municipal zoning boards.
The firm’s leasing practice also includes a particular expertise in "green" commercial leases. We are committed to helping our clients understand and manage the opportunities associated with environmentally sustainable property operations. It is good citizenship and good business.
