Our transactional team represents owners, sellers, purchasers, developers, lenders, investors, and funds in property acquisition and disposition, property planning, lending, financing, and construction. Barton also represents landlords, tenants, and management companies in commercial, office, retail, and industrial lease transactions. We represent real estate brokerages and property management companies in organizational and regulatory compliance matters. Our team also handles matters in connection with residential transactions, assisting with “dirt”-to-organization and structural issues, governmental filings, leasing, and operational and related matters.
Our top-tier litigation team has extensive experience representing clients in real estate disputes, including construction litigation, partnership disputes, lending and financing actions, mortgage foreclosures, lease enforcement and workouts, brokerage disputes, commercial landlord-tenant litigation, and co-op and condo disputes.
Our real estate attorneys frequently collaborate with our corporate, tax, bankruptcy, and trusts and estates practice groups to ensure that our clients maximize the efficiency and control of their real estate assets and investments, while minimizing their exposure to adverse market conditions and liabilities.
We provide a wide variety of real estate services to our clients, including:
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Due diligence
- Acquisition and construction financing
- Development and construction
- Joint ventures and partnerships as well as limited liability company formation and guidance
- Commercial and residential leasing and property management
- REIT representation
- Lease negotiation and enforcement
- Commercial and residential landlord-tenant eviction proceedings
- Cooperative and condominium disputes
- Commercial guaranty actions
- Real estate brokerage counseling and representation regarding disputes
- Construction and mechanic’s lien litigation
- Mortgage foreclosure actions
- 1031 like-kind exchanges
- Foreign Investment in Real Estate Property Tax Act (FIRPTA) compliance
- Institutional mortgage lender representation
- Mezzanine financing
- Securitization financing and defeasance
- Hotel acquisitions, franchising, financing, and development
- Qualified Opportunity Zone funds
- PropTech: cybersecurity and data privacy compliance for property owners, property managers, and real estate brokerages