Corporate and Transactional
Our wide-ranging lease experience includes retail, office, industrial, life sciences, as well as credit tenant and build-to-suit leases. We help clients analyze alternative space choices, sublease arrangements and restructurings and buyouts of existing leases. Our leasing practice is nationwide. Examples of our work include:
- Handling the acquisition of real estate facilities for an international investment advisor involving leases and contracts for office facilities in 12 countries on five continents, including New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney and Santiago.
- Representing one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical corporations in its real estate transactions when it shifted its major research headquarters from Europe to the United States, where it created 1,500,000 s.f. of laboratory space. We counseled the company on leasing, acquisitions, operating permits for its scientific operations, architects and construction contracts, and complex environmental issues.
- Representing a large publicly-traded Internet service company in its real estate leasing throughout the United States and Europe. We have represented the company on the lease of over 200,000 s.f. for its headquarters, as well as leases for its offices in New York, Virginia, California and elsewhere.
- Representing a corporate user on leases for a new 150,000 s.f. headquarters, a new 100,000 s.f. R&D facility, and over 1,000,000 s.f of manufacturing space in several locations.
- Representing numerous landlords on leasing matters for office, industrial and life sciences properties.