Leasing

Your leasing transactions are often national in scope. You’re dealing with tight time constraints, multiple parties, and sophisticated issues. The lawyers in Alston & Bird’s commercial real estate leasing practice offer creative solutions. We are “dealmakers” not “issue-winners.” We focus on providing the most efficient counsel possible to keep your leasing deal moving forward.

Our team represents a wide range of clients in leasing deals across the country. On the landlord side, we advise developers, pension funds, insurance companies, retailers, property managers, REITs, and other private and public companies; and on the tenant side, we represent all types of space users from accounting firms and law firms to companies in the high-tech arena.

We are experienced in representing parties such as landlords and tenants, sublandlords and subtenants, and assignors and assignees. Our team practices in all real estate arenas, including retail, office, industrial, and mixed-use. Alston & Bird represents one of the nation’s largest privately held developers in all of its industrial leasing on a national basis. We have represented one of the Big Four accounting firms for more than 20 years in its major office leases across the country. We draft and negotiate all types of leases, including space leases, master leases, credit leases, ground leases, subleases, build-to-suit leases, and synthetic leases.

At Alston & Bird, leasing is a core concentration, not merely an adjunct to other real estate disciplines. Our leasing team combines legal experience with business acumen in a flexible way that best serves your needs. We make it our priority to protect your interests while ensuring that your deal closes on time and on budget.

• Representing a Hines/Cousins joint venture in the leasing of its new office towers at the Avalon mixed-use project north of Atlanta (including the anchor tenant lease with Microsoft).
• Represented Synovus in the negotiation of its new Atlanta office building in the Cumberland/Galleria submarket. 
• Handling major office lease transactions for a multinational professional services network across the United States (over 20-year relationship).
• Represent IDI in connection with all of its warehouse/distribution leases nationwide (over 20-year relationship).
• Represent Prudential Real Estate Investors in office and retail leasing matters across the Southeast.
• Represent the owner of 1075 Peachtree in Atlanta in connection with major office leases with PWC, Boston Consulting and Seyfarth Shaw.
• Represented Invesco in connection with its corporate headquarters lease in Atlanta.
• Represented a major law firm in connection with all of its leases in Florida.
• Currently representing one of the top-five U.S. money center banks in all of the lease negotiations in connection with its program to sell and lease back major trophy office towers across the United States.
• Recently represented a major Atlanta law firm in connection with its headquarters lease.
• Currently handling a Los Angeles-based law firm headquarters lease.
• Represented the owner of an Atlanta trophy office tower in the negotiation of a major, anchor tenant lease with a top-five U.S. money center bank.