Sales & Acquisitions - Real Estate

Alston & Bird’s real estate lawyers assist clients in the acquisition and sale of improved and unimproved real property. We handle transactions involving properties located throughout the United States and abroad, encompassing all property types -- office, retail, industrial, multi‑family, mixed use, hotel, resort and planned community.

EXPERIENCE

Our experience is reflected in hundreds of developed property acquisitions, both for single investors and in joint ventures with other investor and developer parties; acquisitions for development, including “forward” and “pre-development” acquisitions by investors and developers; and hundreds of dispositions of improved assets and other real estate interests though various structures designed to reduce risk and transaction costs and minimize or defer taxes. Our deals include multijurisdictional portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, single building purchase and sale transactions and a timber portfolio land sale to multiple parties that collectively comprised the largest U.S. land sale since the Louisiana Purchase and involved over 70 of our lawyers from 12 practice disciplines.

DEPTH AND FOCUS

We bring to each transaction the depth of resources to smoothly handle the largest portfolio transactions and the focused knowledge to efficiently handle single purchases and sales that meet the client’s investment needs. Our clients include institutional investors and owners -- pension funds, insurance companies, REITs, banks and owner/users. We also provide counsel to non-institutional investors and developers.

RECOGNITION

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business listed seven of our lawyers among leading real estate practitioners in their jurisdiction, and relayed a client endorsement that we are "wonderful for any kind of real estate."  We have four active members of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and nine partners listed in The Best Lawyers in America.