Real Estate Leasing & Property Management

Leasing & Property Management

From office towers, big-box retail leases, and corporate headquarters relocations to national leasing programs and service agreements, we offer pragmatic and strategic counsel to property owners, managers, tenants, and prospective tenants. Applying decades of experience handling diverse property-related issues, we offer efficient, expeditious transaction execution, optimizing our clients’ market positions and maximizing leasing opportunities, creating and utilizing market-leading lease provisions that attract and retain, as clients, leaders and key players in the real estate industry.

Leasing Representation

Our team counsels clients throughout the lease life cycle, from initial negotiations through resolution of post-termination issues. We negotiate, draft, execute, interpret, and amend complex commercial leases and related agreements, including telecommunications and other licenses. Often, we are called on to negotiate the terms for corporate headquarters leases, build-to-suit, sale-leaseback arrangements, leveraged-lease transactions, ground leases, net leases, and special-use leases, as well as to assist in resolving landlord-tenant disputes. We advise on a wide range of other issues involving industrial, office, retail, multifamily, and mixed-use properties, including:

• Construction disputes
• Property development, entitlements, and zoning restrictions
• Tax structuring, credits, and incentives
• Assignments, subleases, and options
• Repair obligations
• Rental disputes

When needed, we call on V&E’s lawyers experienced in tax, labor and employment law, environmental matters, litigation, and restructuring and reorganization to assure comprehensive service regarding all of our clients’ real estate needs. Working closely with environmental specialists, we oversee regulatory matters, assure compliance, and address remediation and risk allocation.

Managing Properties & Personnel

V&E’s Real Estate lawyers help property owners and managers establish and implement volume-leasing programs, and create and regularly update forms for asset-management, property-management, and leasing agreements. We have drafted and maintain lease forms (for office, retail, and industrial products) used by, among others, Goldman Sachs, CBRE, Inc., CBRE Global Investors, CommonWealth Partners, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Stream Realty Partners, Spear Street Capital LLC, Alex. Brown Realty, Inc., Odyssey Real Estate Capital, Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Wells Real Estate REIT, iStar Financial, Spear Street Capital, Cassidy Turley, and Woods Capital Management; our forms are currently used in 38 different states. We also negotiate, draft, and enforce service-provider, supplier, vendor, and brokerage agreements, as well as provide guidance on property management responsibilities, and property manager-owner and manager-tenant relations.