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The Legal 500 US: Real Estate, 2018–2025
Vinson & Elkins’ Real Estate lawyers represent all facets of the real estate industry, on every side of the table—including banks, insurance companies, private equity firms and other financial institutions, mortgage bankers, equity participants, public and private real estate investment trusts, developers, contractors, landlords, tenants, operating and services firms, design professionals, consultants, and governmental entities—which makes us uniquely suited to guide our clients and devise strategic, creative solutions.
Chambers USA: Real Estate (Texas), 2014–2025
Chambers USA: Real Estate: Mainly Dirt (New York), 2021–2025
Cross-Disciplinary Teams to Meet Unique Client Needs
In addition to our dedicated Real Estate practice, V&E’s lawyers across the firm have extensive experience partnering on real estate transactions to meet client needs. We work efficiently and effectively, and as projects dictate, we build cross-disciplinary teams, routinely calling on lawyers in our Tax, Partnership Law, Corporate and Security Issues, Labor, Environmental, Executive Compensation and Benefits, ERISA, Finance, Intellectual Property Rights, Litigation, Condemnation and Land Use, Bankruptcy, and Governmental Regulation groups.
V&E covers the full range of legal issues relating to the real estate industry, including:
- Commercial real estate
- Condemnation and land use
- Construction contracting
- Development
- Distressed debt
- Entity formation (joint ventures, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, business trusts)
- Investment and finance
- Management and leasing
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Real estate funds
- Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Securitizations
- Tax
- Workouts and restructurings
Experience Highlights
Woods Capital Management, LLC in the sale of partnership interests in a joint venture owning One AT&T Plaza, a landmark 37-story, Class A office building in Dallas, Texas that houses AT&T’s 965,800 square foot global headquarters
The Related Companies in the Willets Point development project in Long Island City, Queens, New York which will include a soccer stadium, 2,500 affordable homes (and largest new construction housing project in New York City in 40 years) a school, and hotel and retail space
Stream Realty Partners in a joint venture with Principal Financial Group and the acquisition of approximately 76 acres of land for initial development of a 140,000 square foot data center in Wilmer, Texas
Spear Street Capital in its financing of 225 West Wacker, a 650,812 square foot, 31-floor, trophy, Class A, headquarter-quality office building located on the south bank of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois
Cypress Equities in a joint venture and the development of one of the parcels of the mixed use development River District Neighborhood in New Orleans which will include a 142,000 square foot custom-designed office building and the first Class A office building constructed in New Orleans since 1989
Pacific Elm Properties in the development of Parkside, a 500,000 square-foot, 30-story tower located along Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, Texas and the lease of 238,000 square feet of space within the tower to Bank of America
Fetner Properties in the joint venture acquisition of 2701 Jackson Ave, in Queens, NY, in partnership with the Lions Group and the joint venture of Fetner/Lions in connection with a construction loan with Bank Leumi and mezzanine loan with Leumi Partners in the aggregate amount of $95 million, which proceeds will be used to finance the ground-up construction of an approximately 202,435 square foot mixed-use building comprised of 164 residential apartments and 8,300 square feet of above grade commercial space
Major baseball league in the lease of an industrial space containing approximately 200,000 square feet in Elmwood Park, New Jersey
Spear Street Capital in a 180,000 square foot lease to AIG spanning seven floors, and one of the largest deals signed in the market in 2024, located at Perimeter Summit in Brookhaven, Georgia
LIV Golf, Inc. in its New York City headquarters lease located at Hudson Yards
Stream Realty Partners in the acquisition of 39 parcels in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois for the construction and development of a data center facility
Innovo Property Group in a joint venture with Affinius Capital in the 210,000 square foot solar rooftop lease on an industrial property in The Bronx, New York
Joy Construction/Madd Equities in a commercial lease to Bogopa 207, Inc. for a flagship supermarket and food hall to be operated under the “Food Bazaar” trade name in New York, New York
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