Workouts, Foreclosures and Litigation
Problems abound in real estate. We can help take care of them. DWT represents owners, developers, contractors, brokers, lenders, borrowers, title insurance companies and others in distressed and workout transactions. Our legal services include both judicial and nonjudicial proceedings including: negotiations and dispute resolution; financial restructurings, and asset and loan workouts; receiverships and foreclosures; breach of contracts and leases; condemnation; construction disputes and lien foreclosures; and title insurance claims.

Tax Services
Many of our clients also take advantage of the firm's business tax practice group for tax planning services. We structure a variety of real estate transactions, including formation of limited liability companies (the vehicle of choice for holding Real Estate & Land Use), public and private real estate syndications, rehabilitation tax credit projects, traditional and "reverse" like-kind exchanges, involuntary conversions, and conservation easements. Our business tax lawyers also handle timber tax issues as well as state and local tax issues relating to Real Estate & Land Use, including structuring transactions to minimize state and local transfer or excise taxes, conducting appeals from tax assessments, managing current use benefits under property tax laws, and obtaining property tax exemptions.

Real Estate Affiliate
CenturyPacific, L.P. is a real estate affiliate of DWT that provides real estate advice, asset management and development services to DWT clients and others. CenturyPacific's real estate professionals have structured and negotiated well in excess of $2 Billion in acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, development agreement and leases. CenturyPacific is engaged in the development of commercial buildings and significant parcels of land. The result is an advisory firm able to provide an unusually broad range of real estate services.

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