Real Estate Transactions
Gardner Brewer Hudson real estate attorneys provide guidance and counseling on all aspects of commercial and residential acquisition, sale, leasing and development drawing on extensive experience across diverse asset classes. We provide counsel related to the acquisition, development, leasing, financing, and sale of properties across the United States and in various jurisdictions around the world. Whether you are buying, selling, or acquiring property, we will ensure that your real property transaction affords you the protection and peace of mind you require.
Real Estate Development
We support all areas of commercial and residential development, from single and multi-family residential projects, to retail, office, industrial, medical, shopping center and hospitality projects. Our representation includes overseeing development approvals; negotiating entitlement documents with local governments; drafting restrictive covenants and site development agreements; and negotiating and preparing retail leases and financing. From the inception of a project, through negotiating the complex business terms and title work, to document preparation and all the way through closing, we offer you a one-stop option to bring your real property development projects to seamless fruition.
Real Estate Financing and Investment
Our real estate attorneys are experienced in all aspects of real estate financing and investment, both in the representation of borrowers and developers as well as financial institutions, investors and lenders. We have extensive experience with a full range of financing and investment transactions, including conventional term loans, bridge loans, construction and permanent financing for development, and equity and joint venture structures and arrangements with various constituencies. We also have extensive experience representing financial institutions in the workout of distressed loans, credit facilities and special assets.
Corporate Transactions
Whether a client is a single shareholder entity or complex business enterprise, Gardner Brewer Hudson corporate transactions attorneys can help provide an infrastructure and secure the resources your business needs. From all aspects of merger, acquisition and disposition transactions, corporate counseling, and other transactional and governance issues, our transactions attorneys provide sophisticated legal advice on the issues most important to companies. The purchase or sale of a business is one of the most significant transactions that occur in the life cycle of a company. Clients rely on us for their business needs because we approach each transaction by thoroughly examining how it affects the business so that we understand all aspects of the transaction.
Corporate and Business Counseling
Gardner Brewer Hudson attorneys often serve as “outside general counsel” dealing with entity organization and governance, legal compliance, and risk management in connection with day-to-day business operations and dispute resolution. Our attorneys can assist in the negotiation, preparation and enforcing of various agreements, contracts and business arrangements. We counsel business clients on the factors to be considered in choosing the form for their businesses, and assist in implementing those choices. We have organized corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and other legal entities throughout various jurisdictions, and assist in the negotiation and preparation of joint venture agreements, buy/sell agreements, and other strategic relationships.
Business Financing and Credit Transactions
Our business attorneys provide practical and efficient credit law advice to the full spectrum of non-financial-institution businesses involved in finance transactions, whether as borrowers or as lenders. Gardner Brewer Hudson represents clients in traditional lending relationships, as well as strategic investment and venture relationships and in connection with extensions of credit incidental to commercial transactions. Our attorneys routinely handle successful collection and restructuring of many clients’ troubled credits, in and outside of bankruptcy.
Trusts and Estates
We work with you to make your long-term financial plans a reality. Gardner Brewer Hudson’s trust and estates practice centers around the goal of providing clients with the comfort that comes from knowing that your personal affairs are well taken care of. Our attorneys work hard to develop concise, well-structured and cost-effective estate plans that meet our clients’ goals. We handle the preparation of wills, revocable and irrevocable trust agreements, living wills, healthcare surrogate designations and power of attorney documents.
Community Associations Law
GBH provides real estate legal services to community associations including condominium and single-family residential associations, cooperative and commercial developments, homeowners associations, individual property owners, and professional property management companies. Our attorneys are recognized authorities in community association and real estate law and work closely with our community association clients, their boards of directors, professional property managers, and homeowners to provide legal counsel in all aspects of their operations.