Business and Real Estate Group
Our Business and Real Estate Group contributes to our clients' success in a full range of legal matters, from small business transactions to complex, multi-million dollar commercial real estate deals.
PRACTICE FOCUS
Business Planning & Transactions
Planning, structuring and forming entities; negotiating, reviewing and drafting contracts; providing counseling and negotiating financing mechanisms; strategic partnerships and ventures; tax planning; and mergers and acquisitions.
Real Estate Purchase and Sale Transactions
Acquisitions, finance, leases, easements, development, syndications and tax deferred exchanges. The firm also counsels its clients with respect to environmental, property taxes and other issues arising in connection with real estate transactions.
Development, permitting, planning, zoning, condemnation, eminent domain and environmental matters. The firm handles matters on behalf of both private property owners and public agency clients. The firm regularly makes appearances on behalf of its clients before a wide range of administrative bodies, including the Board of Supervisors, City Councils, Planning Commissions and LAFCO.
Local and state legislative and regulatory matters, permitting, public finance, environmental compliance and issues affecting the structure of local government. The firm has a long history of representing a variety of local governmental agencies, both with respect to ongoing operations, as well as the construction of new public facilities.
Technology and Emerging Growth Companies
We provide our technology and emerging growth companies with the specialized services that are uniquely important to them, such as: entity formation; equity compensation arrangements, including qualified and nonqualified stock option plans; securities and creative financing mechanisms to raise needed capital; technology licensing agreements; and business contracts.