Brown Rudnick’s attorneys offer the collective benefits of their experience and perspective with respect to shopping centers and other retail properties.

In addition to providing superior legal representation, our client commitment includes facilitating new business relationships. At the ICSC Spring Convention in Las Vegas, Brown Rudnick hosts an annual reception honoring Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, offering hundreds of our retail client and industry contacts the opportunity to be introduced to the Mayor and his planning staff and to one another. Our clients highly value these kinds of one-on-one networking opportunities, and we are pleased to be the facilitators.

Acquisitions and Sales
Brown Rudnick regularly represents its clients in the acquisition and sale of commercial properties. In particular, our attorneys are experienced in the purchase of properties for retail development. Our attorneys also have experience in “portfolio” transactions across multiple jurisdictions, as well as purchases and sales in connection with 1031 tax deferred exchanges, purchases of leaseholds in bulk sale bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy scenarios and sale/leasebacks. The firm works closely with its clients and with other consultants in analyzing properties and addressing issues that arise in connection with the purchase and sale of assets.

Leasing
We provide comprehensive leasing services in connection with all types of commercial projects throughout the U.S. By regularly representing both tenants and landlords, we offer perspectives that can be valuable assets in crafting and negotiating agreements that meet specialized concerns.

Our attorneys offer decades of experience working on hundreds of transactions. We have represented a number of the nation’s most prominent retail tenants and landlords in leasing transactions involving properties such as regional malls, power centers, strip centers, freestanding stores and urban locations.

Development
We represent developers, including self-developing retailers, in projects located throughout the Northeast as well as elsewhere in the United States. Our broad experience and familiarity with local, state and federal regulatory issues have made important contributions to our clients’ success in a variety of project types.
 
Zoning and Land Use
We actively assist our clients in matters relating to zoning, permitting and land use. In the last few years alone, our attorneys have participated in the zoning and permitting of over a thousand sites in hundreds of cities and towns throughout New England. We have a proven track record of obtaining permits and approvals from the boards and authorities in these municipalities.

Our zoning and land use practice works extensively with our Government Law & Strategies Group. The efforts of both practice areas have afforded us the ability to cultivate new, and maintain existing, relationships with key officials in many of these communities.

We advise our clients in navigating the labyrinth of zoning, subdivision, environmental, wetlands, highway connections, historic district, scenic river, tidelands and coastal zone management laws and regulations. With efficiency and expediency, our attorneys leverage their experience and relationships to negotiate through this regulatory maze.

Financing
Brown Rudnick is adept at structuring complex loans, including participation and construction loans, tax-exempt loans, and publicly subsidized financing, as well as more conventional financings. We are also experienced in representing lenders and borrowers in connection with conduit loans and credit tenant lease financings.

We represent our retail clients as borrowers in a variety of financing transactions, including structured portfolio financings.

We also represent retail finance divisions of major financial institutions lending to national and regional retail chains. This practice affords us a unique perspective in understanding many of the financial and operational issues confronting our retailer clients.
 

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