Perspectives on Real Estate

ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce the election of 15 new partners, effective January 1, 2025.

ArentFox Schiff has been nationally recognized with 35 top rankings in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms®, which honors firms for professional excellence based on consistently positive ratings from clients and peers.

AFS successfully represented Sutil Group, a leading Chilean agricultural business group, in the acquisition of California-based Sunshine Raisin Corporation, one of the top processors of premium-quality dried fruits in the United States.

Experienced finance attorneys are aware that a loan guaranty given by a sister company of the borrower (a “cross-stream guaranty”) or by a subsidiary of the borrower (an “upstream guaranty”), in which the guarantor has no ownership interest in the borrower, differs from a traditional guaranty given by a borrower’s owner or parent company (a “downstream guaranty”) since the cross-stream or upstream guaranty raises the question that such a guaranty may be unenforceable as a constructive fraudulent conveyance under title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) and under state creditor’s rights laws.

ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce that San Francisco Managing Partner and Sports Practice Leader Richard Brand has been named among Daily Journal’s “Top 100 Lawyers” for the third year in a row and fourth time overall for his continuing impact on the legal profession.

ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce that 135 attorneys have been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America 2025, with two attorneys highlighted as “Lawyers of the Year” and 70 attorneys listed as “Ones to Watch.”

Welcome to the August 2024 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month.

ArentFox Schiff advised Wintrust Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: WTFC) on its merger with Macatawa Bank Corporation. On August 1, the parties jointly announced the completion of their previously announced merger whereby Wintrust acquired Macatawa in an all-stock transaction.

As a ready reference for real estate industry professionals utilizing title insurance, below is a comparison and limited analysis of certain aspects of the annual financial statements of a cross section of active title insurance companies.

As advances in cloud computing and AI have resulted in a tsunami of demand for data centers, it has never been more important to have the right provisions in your data center lease. This article identifies four key considerations to keep in mind as you negotiate a data center lease.

When longtime resident Alma Joyce Jones heard that a national dollar store brand was coming near the Village of Bonita, Louisiana (population 164), she borrowed the words of Grammy-nominated country singer Jimmie Allen, “It’s the little things that are big in a small town!”

ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce that 70 attorneys were recognized as leaders in their field and 23 practices spanning the firm’s litigation, regulatory, and transactional capabilities were ranked among the best in the country in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

Although a senior living property manager is not the party on the hook for the loan, it is important that they review and negotiate certain provisions in the owner’s loan documents that affect their rights and obligations in connection with the loan.

Senator Doug Jones and Gene Magidenko will present at the FBA’s Corporate and Association Counsel Division webinar on May 16, 2024.

Regulators at all levels are seeking to advance climate-change related policies. Of late, municipalities have increasingly sought to “decarbonize” buildings and related infrastructure through changes to building codes and legislation like “gas bans.”

In the words of rapper Kendrick Lamar, “Money trees is the perfect place for shade and that’s just how I feel.”

On February 20, the US Supreme Court declined to hear challenges brought by rental unit owners to recent changes made to New York City’s Rent Stabilization Laws.

As 2024 gets underway, the nonprofit sector will continue to face new challenges in addition to grappling with ongoing challenges that continue to impact the sector.

“In residential real estate sales, all parties involved, including sellers, developers, title companies, attorneys, and closing agents, need to be aware of reporting requirements. Consider a situation where a commercial developer builds a residential condominium building or build-to-sale single family community and subsequently sells-off residential units to individual buyers: if a condo unit or single-family home is bought in cash, such sale could trigger a filing requirement with FinCEN.”

Finding a suitable location for a cannabis retail store is not easy, especially in New York City, where quality retail locations are scarce and expensive, and regulations are more robust than most other municipalities.

After seemingly bouncing back from the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and related labor, supply chain, and governmental mandate issues, the hospitality industry experienced a year of volatility in 2023.

Megan Daily presented “What’s in a Contract and Why,” at the DC Pro Bono Center’s How the Law Impacts Your Small Business seminar series on February 6, 2024.

The fashion and retail industry experienced another year of considerable change in 2023.

As 2023 came to an end, it offered a prime opportunity to examine significant legal developments in intellectual property case law and implications for the real estate industry in the year to come.

On October 27, the Biden-Harris Administration announced new initiatives across various governmental agencies to support and encourage the conversion of high-vacancy commercial buildings in downtown urban environments to residential use.