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Our real estate practice is known for advising clients on complex real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financing, joint ventures, and development projects that have transformed significant portions of the skyline in cities across the United States. Our real estate team handles transactions of all sizes and degrees of complexity. We advise on ownership, use, and financing issues for clients including developers, real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity and pension funds, institutional lenders, advisers, servicers, and colleges and universities. We handle land assemblage, use, and development; leasing; dispositions; financings (including international investments); workouts; restructurings; and real property tax matters.

With more than 50 lawyers and other professionals in 13 offices, we serve clients in the real estate industry as well as those whose business models use real estate as a strategic asset. We collaborate with other practices to provide coordinated and efficient service. We guide clients through the maze of transactional issues arising in the acquisition and management of real estate holdings. Our team provides added value to clients through our ability to address complicated financing, tax allocation, and structural issues specific to joint ventures and other partnership arrangements. We bring a deep and multifaceted understanding of the marketplace and the challenges our clients may face.

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Chambers Review

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Real Estate - Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds

3
Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is a full-service law firm which draws on its wide-ranging expertise when acting on real estate transactions and in negotiations. Brings a strong corporate focus when advising clients, including REITs, retail property owners and companies in the energy sector. Strong choice to advise on development issues relating to self-storage, student housing and multifamily projects.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Jeannine T Bishop
4
Band 4

Jeannine Bishop leads the firm's real estate practice. She represents clients in both transactional and leasing matters.

Jeannine is a pragmatic, diligent and extremely hard-working attorney. She removes obstacles, clears the path to real estate transactions and gets parties to agree.

She is attentive, pragmatic and keen when solving problems or creating win-win solutions.

Jeannine demonstrates an extraordinary ability to manage the many moving parts of multiparty, multi-property transactions. Clients laud her ability to lead them through complex deals.

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Kathleen A. Keyser
4
Band 4

Kathleen Keyser advises clients on matters including joint ventures, acquisitions and leasing.

Kathleen is an extraordinary thinker. She has a confident negotiating style as well as an ability to understand fully both sides of a transaction.

Ranked Lawyers at
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

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Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds

Real Estate

4
Jeannine T Bishop
4
Band 4
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Kathleen A. Keyser
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Band 4

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