Acquisitions and Dispositions
The McKenna Long & Aldridge (MLA) Real Estate team has more than 35 years of experience handling the acquisition and disposition of single projects, as well as complex, multi-project and portfolio transactions in every major sector of the industry, including residential, office, retail, hotel, health care, and industrial real estate. We have developed the systems and relationships required to quickly and efficiently consummate substantial transactions that are national in scope, as well as individual assets of any size.
Unlike other national firms, our senior attorneys are hands-on from the start, working closely with their counterparts in the full complement of related real estate sub-specialties to address all the needs of the transaction, including land use, due diligence, environmental, joint ventures, and debt structuring, to closing.
We handle a wide array of acquisition and disposition transactions, including:
- Build-to-suit single-tenant facilities
- Condominiums and subdivisions
- Distressed real estate portfolios
- Health care facilities
- Hotel and entertainment properties
- Landmark buildings
- Large scale industrial and utility projects
- Major manufacturing and warehouse facilities
- Mixed-use projects
- Multi-location stores and restaurants
- Office complexes
- Residential developments
- Shopping malls
We represent developers, investors, financial institutions, corporations, governmental entities and real estate acquisition funds in transactions involving traditional equity investments, as well structuring complex transactions such as seller financing, sale/leasebacks, and like-kind exchanges to support clients’ business objectives. We have also handled many acquisitions and dispositions involving environmentally sensitive or contaminated sites, and properties intended for redevelopment and re-use.
Our services include:
- Structuring, negotiating, documenting, and closing purchases and sales of single projects and portfolios of real estate holdings — raw land, under development and developed;
- Advising on traditional and non-traditional financing and equity vehicles including up-REIT transactions;
- Analyzing land-use, permitting, entitlement and environmental issues;
- Preparing and negotiating ground, master, and space leases on behalf of landlords and tenants;
- Handling foreclosures and deed-in-lieu of foreclosure transactions;
- Coordinating due diligence;
- Negotiating multi-party ground lease and air rights developments;
- Obtaining access, utility, and other easements and services needed for development; and
- Assemblage of project sites.