Real Estate Finance
Fortis LLP’s attorneys can offer expert legal services in all aspects of real estate financing, development, acquisition, and investment, as our attorneys have represented a wide variety of industry figures in all of these aforementioned areas. We have extensive experience with virtually all major types of real estate, including office, commercial, residential, industrial and hospitality.
Given the depth of this experience, and also the range and breadth of our industry contacts and our understanding of the varied marketplaces in which our clients do business, the attorneys at our Firm are uniquely able to bring a personalized and results-oriented approach to our clients’ real estate transactions. Additionally, our extensive resources allow us to provide our clients with the most effective legal representation notwithstanding the location, size, staffing needs, time constraints or complexity of any transaction, resulting in a high level of client satisfaction.
Transaction Structuring
One of the firm’s fundamental strengths lies in our ability to structure equity, debt and reorganization transactions, as well as structuring the business entities and organizations (such as joint ventures, partnerships, and limited liability companies) that are used to effect the particular transaction. Fortis LLP’s attorneys strive to find the optimal method in which to join real estate investors (including developers, syndicators, investment and asset managers, and individuals) with sources of capital for commercial, industrial, retail, resort and residential real estate projects.
Office, Industrial Projects & Residential
The attorneys at our Firm have much experience in representing owners, developers, investors, lenders and asset managers in connection with all aspects of office and industrial real estate investment, including purchase and sale transactions, property development, financing, leasing and asset management. We represent in different transactions all of the participants integral to a wide variety of residential projects including master-planned, mixed-use communities, resorts, and multifamily apartments and condominium projects.
Loan Work Outs
The Firm also has experience in loan workouts, restructuring, and bankruptcy law which enable our attorneys to handle various facets of restructuring and insolvency matters, ranging from forbearance agreements, loan modifications, judicial and non-judicial enforcement proceedings and deed-in-lieu agreements.
Landlord / Tenant / Commercial Leasing
Additionally, the attorneys at our Firm have experience in representing landlords and tenants in all aspects of commercial leasing, including the leasing of office buildings, retail space, shopping centers, warehouse, industrial, and manufacturing buildings, and mixed-use developments.