Experience
Our experience is reflected in a diverse range and footprint of property acquisitions and dispositions each year, in all economic cycles. Our deals include multijurisdictional portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, single “trophy 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, involving over 70 of our lawyers from 12 practice disciplines.
Accolades
- Eight of Alston & Bird’s Real Estate Finance and Investment Group partners were ranked as 2012 Best Lawyers. Best Lawyers in America is “the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession,” compiling its lists through exhaustive peer-review surveys of thousands of leading lawyers.
- Six of Alston & Bird’s Real Estate Finance and Investment Group partners were ranked in the 2011 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Since 1999, Chambers has been researching the U.S. legal profession, identifying leading lawyers and law firms through interviews with thousands of those in the industry and their clients. The group is highly reputed for the independence and objectivity of its research.
- Real Estate Finance and Investment Group Partners Sean Reynolds and Alison Ryan were both recognized as 2010 “Rising Stars” by Georgia Super Lawyers magazine. The award honors those deemed by the magazine as the best lawyers under the age of 40, or have been practicing for less than 10 years, determined by a rigorous selection process. Rising stars are nominated by active peers, and their credentials reviewed by a research staff. According to Super Lawyers, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in any one state are named to the list.
- Real Estate Finance and Investment Partner Gerard Keegan, of the New York office, was named in Above the Law’s 2012 associates survey, “Top Partners to Work For – New York.” Above the Law said that Keegan is noted for being “a real team player [who] genuinely cares about the people he works with.”
Bringing Value to Our Clients
Real estate is a core and committed focus for Alston & Bird. We have a longstanding business relationship with several of the largest real estate owners in the world, in some instances spanning over 20 years. We collaborate and partner with our clients on each deal to reach a successful outcome, bringing creative solutions to the most complex transactions. Our lawyers’ reputation is that of “deal makers” not deal breakers.
In the past decade, Alston & Bird’s Real Estate Finance & Investment Group has handled a series of large-scale, multiproperty engagements, drawing upon our unparalleled teamwork, depth and breadth of substantive expertise, and commitment of resources. With this experience, our lawyers are uniquely positioned to handle the full range of real estate sales and acquisitions in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible.