Seyfarth Shaw has established a multi-disciplinary team of attorneys with a combined real estate, corporate, ERISA and tax practice whose mission is to intimately understand the needs of institutional investors, REIT and private real estate operating companies and equity investors in their real estate and related asset investments. 

Be it acquisitions or dispositions, equity joint ventures, direct, mezzanine or participating loans, incentive management fee arrangements or other sophisticated investment arrangements, the Seyfarth team has seen and done it all.  When it comes to the structuring of investments, there are no structures or transaction types which our lawyers have not touched, including private REITs, convertible loans, Up-REITS and Down-REITS, preferred equity, master leases with conversion rights, joint ventures and joint ventures with fixed units and public and private partnerships.

Our trademark is that we are good listeners who are dedicated to achieving the goals of our clients.  Our breath of experience, combined with our active presence in all of the leading domestic financial markets, allow us to provide both deep technical expertise and local market business advice.  As the sixth largest domestic commercial real estate practice of any law firm, we are extraordinarily active across the country and are disciplined in sharing our industry and market knowledge with each of our team members.  We use that collective knowledge to enhance our problem solving ability for our clients. 

Our practice spans the United States and includes representing publicly traded REITs, major public and private pension funds, investors and managers engaged in hospitality development and ownership of hotels,insurance companies, private real estate operating companies and equity investors, and foreign investors investing in the U.S. markets (either directly or through tax advantaged vehicles).  With significant offices in the gateway markets of Boston, D.C., New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Sacramento, and an extraordinarily deep bench of skills, we are able to keep abreast of activities in most areas in which significant commercial transactions are occurring and impart what we learn to our clients’ advantage.

We also understand that part of what we do as lawyers is manage a process—whether it be closing a large acquisition or working with clients to navigate a complex entity structure.  To be effective process managers, we have adopted SeyfarthLean techniques to help our clients achieve their goals more efficiently and at lower costs.  Be it publicly traded REITs, pension funds and their advisors, insurance companies or other equity investors, clients are concerned about the cost of transactions.  We at Seyfarth recognize this and believe we can team with our clients to help manage the costs and assure that we, as attorneys, are adding value to the overall process.

Our firmwide commitment to innovation was recently recognized by the Financial Times as a Top Innovative Law Firm and rates “Best of the Best” for Innovative Approach by BTI Consulting.