Real Estate

Morrison Foerster has one of the leading real estate practices in the United States, Asia, and Europe. We provide innovative and practical legal advice to a broad range of real estate industry participants in all types of real estate transactions, including acquisition, development, financing, ownership, leasing, and operation. In particular, we regularly assist our clients in debt and equity transactions covering virtually all real estate product types.

In an era in which the real estate industry has become increasingly global and oriented toward capital markets, we are able to provide our clients with the most effective legal representation, notwithstanding the location, size, staffing needs, or time constraints of any transaction. To ensure effective geographic coverage for our clients, real estate lawyers are resident in most of the firm’s major offices. Additionally, the lawyers in our Real Estate Group work in cooperation with our colleagues in the firm’s Financial Transactions, Tax, Securities, Corporate, Bankruptcy, Litigation, and other practice areas to bring the full resources of the firm to bear in addressing the needs of our clients.

In the recent words of clients, our Real Estate Group “really understands the client’s needs and the team is phenomenal - they are efficient, thorough and all of the attorneys are walking encyclopedias.” Clients praise our “holistic and results-oriented approach,” saying that we have “outstanding breadth of expertise in real estate transactions” and grasp “the larger issues as well as the fine details that make or break a transaction - the i’s are always dotted and the t’s are always crossed.” (Chambers USA)

Our Real Estate Group has extensive experience in the areas of: