Real Estate Acquisitions and Sales

Federman’s commercial real estate group handles real estate acquisition and disposition transactions of all sizes and levels of complexity throughout the United States. Our clients include domestic and foreign investors, owners and operators of all types, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to high net worth individuals and not-for-profit organizations. Our firm provides a full scope of representation to our clients in purchase and sale transactions of real estate, equity interests in entities that own interests in real estate, and the loans that are secured by direct or indirect interests in real estate.

Federman lawyers are typically involved from the outset of a transaction, providing a full range of acquisition and disposition services to real estate development companies, public and private REITs, pension funds, opportunity funds, real estate funds, family offices and high net worth individuals, hotel and resort owners/operators, utility companies, banks and other financial institutions, home builders and end users of real estate of all kinds.

From deal inception through transaction closing, Federman lawyers advise on traditional fee title asset-based transactions, as well as transfers of ground and master leasehold interests, easements, remainderman interests, and direct and indirect equity interests in real estate owners, operators and investors. Federman’s commercial real estate group has extensive experience in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of multi-state portfolios, individual asset sales, distressed real estate auction sales by brokers, receivers and trustees, sale-leasebacks, seller financing and real estate subdivision work. Our lawyers assist clients in the ancillary documentation associated with wide ranging transaction and property types, including negotiation of property and hotel management agreements, utility interconnection agreements and reciprocal easement and operating agreements.

Federman’s commercial real estate group regularly closes acquisitions and sales across a wide range of asset classes including:

Market rate and subsidized multifamily apartment rentals
Urban office buildings and suburban office parks
Senior housing and assisted living facilities
Indoor and outdoor shopping centers
“Big-box” and grocery anchored retail
Hotels and golf courses
Life science research facilities and laboratories
Healthcare facilities and hospitals
Condominiums and cooperatives
Auto dealerships
Parking garages
Public storage facilities
Mixed-use properties
Corporate headquarters buildings
Single family townhouses
Outlet malls
Amusement parks and recreational facilities
Warehouses and distribution centers
Data centers and telecom hotels
Co-living and extended stay facilities
Air rights and development rights
Marinas and boatyards
Airfield fixed base operations

Represented national real estate developer/owner in the $130,000,000 acquisition and financing of The Wilshire Beverly Center, Beverly Hills, California, a 225,000 square foot retail/office complex. Negotiated joint venture agreement between equity participants.
Represented Netherlands based family in the acquisition of a $26,000,000 portfolio of multifamily buildings located in Upper Manhattan.
Represented New York based asset manager in connection with the acquisition of $1,500,000,000 portfolio of office buildings, hotels, shopping centers, marinas and golf courses throughout the United States.
Represented New York based asset manager in the $120,000,000 disposition of 1,000,000 sf Class A office tower in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Represented New York based asset manager of hospitality assets in the $165,000,000 acquisition of the Boston Renaissance Hotel (Boston, Massachusetts) and the $100,000,000 acquisition of the Astor Crowne Plaza (New Orleans, Louisiana). Negotiated joint venture agreements between sponsor and equity participants.
Represented New York based real estate family in the $85,000,000 disposition of a portfolio of multifamily assets located in three Boroughs of New York City.
Represented New York based real estate syndicator in the acquisition of a $32,000,000 retail shopping center in northern New Jersey.
Represented owner/operator of assisted living facilities in the acquisition and financing of four existing facilities in the Northeastern United States with an aggregate value of approximately $165,000,000 from a joint venture group whose members include New York’s oldest real estate families.
Represented publicly traded manufacturing company in the sale at bankruptcy auction of nine distribution, warehouse and manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States, Central America and South America.
Negotiated a joint venture agreement between client and public service development agency for the purpose of purchasing certain real estate assets, including certain government-assisted affordable housing properties throughout the United States, consisting of approximately 171 projects.
Negotiated on behalf of the District of Columbia the $100,000,000 disposition of a District owned site on Pennsylvania Avenue to a national media museum. Winner of Washington Business Journal community impact “Deal of the Year” for 2000.

Representative Transactions