Transactions and Financing
DWT Real Estate & Land Use lawyers are adept at structuring and negotiating real estate purchase, sale, and like-kind-exchange transactions for major office buildings, multifamily residences, and industrial, retail, commercial and timberland properties. We also represent borrowers, lenders, insurance companies, pension funds, credit companies and other businesses and individuals in all types of financing matters.
Our transaction and financing services include:

• Entity formation - corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability companies
  
  
• Purchase, sale and exchange of commercial, industrial and residential real estate
  
  
• Site acquisition and project development
  
  
• Design, engineering and construction service agreements
  
  
• Commercial leasing, including office, retail, industrial and multi-family residential properties
  
  
• Negotiation of construction, interim, permanent, wraparound and equity-shared financing from commitment through post-closing
  
  
• Financing due diligence
  
  
• Negotiate and draft complex ground leases and specialized leases for industry groups such as telecommunications
  

Development and Land Use
As your project begins to take shape, we can provide a solid legal framework to protect your interests - especially useful as the number of concerned parties and permit requirements grows. Whether your project is a large, mixed-use development or a single building, we often handle the site due diligence, land use and zoning permits, development agreements, land-sales registration, property management and a broad range of related matters.
Over the years, we have assisted with a wide range of development projects, including:

• Planned unit and master planned developments
  
• Subdivisions
  
• Condominiums
  
• Commercial and industrial developments
  
• Marine construction and water-dependent projects
  
• Resorts, golf courses and marinas
  
• Major office buildings, telecommunications facilities, hospitals, hotels and high technology facilities
  
• Utility extensions, traffic, school and other development fees
  
• Shoreline, environmental and critical area regulation compliance
  

Environment and Natural Resources
Beyond land use approvals, property development requires successful negotiation of a maze of specialized environmental and natural resources legal requirements. DWT lawyers have extensive experience with a wide range of environmental and natural resources laws, both as counselors and litigators. Many have technical backgrounds, worked within governmental agencies or held in-house compliance positions within major corporations. We represent numerous timber and other natural resource companies. We routinely handle Endangered Species Act issues, hazardous substance cleanups (including major Superfund sites), hazardous waste management, Clean Water Act issues, Clean Air Act issues, toxic substances control, defense of citizen's suits, permitting and regulatory compliance, appeals of environmental permits, real estate transactions with environmental implications, environmental site assessments. We skillfully represent defendants in major environmental criminal prosecutions. We also have broad expertise in the acquisition of water rights, either through the regulatory process or by party-to-party transaction.

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Construction
We represent a broad cross section of major entities in the construction industry, including public and private owners, general contractors, specialty subcontractors and design professionals in contract negotiation and drafting, claims and alternative dispute resolutions, litigation, labor problems and solutions (including project labor agreements), surety issues, public improvement contracting and contracting for consultants in the related fields of architecture, engineering, environmental investigation and management and construction. Our construction lawyers know and understand the pressures imposed on clients by demanding projects, and they furnish no-nonsense advice to resolve problems quickly and practically.

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