Real Estate
USA Guide 2024 : Florida: South
Band 2
About
Provided by Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Nelson Mullins' Real Estate Team takes an integrated approach to help clients get their deals done the right way.
- We help companies buy, sell, lease, develop, manage, and finance real estate, including large portfolio transactions.
- Our clients include developers, banks and other lenders, private investment funds, REITs, national and regional retailers and restaurant groups, national franchise businesses, as well as publicly and privately held companies with real estate assets throughout the United States.
- Client services range from national counsel roles on large portfolio transactions to development counsel to recurring and large volume commercial leasing work for both landlords and tenants to real estate and bankruptcy litigation and loan workouts.
National and lead counsel roles for large-scale matters
- National counsel for acquisition and restructuring of multiple distressed-debt loan portfolios
- Real estate diligence counsel for 120+ properties in national retail sale-leaseback transaction
- Lead lease review counsel for acquisition of multi-state GSA asset pool
- Lead diligence review counsel for portfolio of 60 loans secured by real estate across the country
- Closing counsel for 120+ assets held on master repo lending lines
- National leasing work for several franchises and national retail tenant
- Counsel for dozens of real estate developer clients – buy, develop, finance, manage and sell commercial, multifamily, hospitality, assisted living, mixed use and other asset classes
Chambers Review
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP is well versed in real estate matters including sophisticated transactional work. It is particularly renowned for its expertise in real estate joint venture formation and financing. Clients include owners, developers and lenders. It cultivates a wide-reaching portfolio of work in the affordable housing domain, working with clients such as local, state and federal government agencies, asset and property managers, and for-profit and nonprofit developers across 35 states.
Work Highlights
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP advised Aventon Companies in acquiring four vacant land sites for the ground-up development and related construction financing of Class A multi-family units.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team at Nelson Mullins is very diligent and very knowledgeable."
"Nelson Mullins is able to provide a varied expertise by bringing various attorneys from the team when necessary."
"The team at Nelson Mullins is very diligent and very knowledgeable."
"Nelson Mullins is able to provide a varied expertise by bringing various attorneys from the team when necessary."
Notable Practitioners
David Brown offers experience advising on large-scale and complex developments, handling land use, transactional and financing matters for his clients.
"David is an icon in the market."
"He is very active and has done some big projects in the area."
Jeffrey Deutch regularly advises on real estate developments and acquisitions for his developer clients, with additional strength handling financing and joint venture matters.
"He is smart and very good lawyer."
"Jeffrey Deutch is the best."
Clifford Hertz routinely handles land use disputes and zoning issues arising from projects in the education, agriculture and affordable housing sectors.
"He is a natural leader of development teams in complex situations."
"Mr. Hertz is responsive to our requests, thoughtful in his deliberation on issues and clear on his advice and recommendations."
Angela Shaw frequently represents lenders, buyers, sellers and developers in high-value real estate deals.
James Slater offers longstanding experience in a wide variety of real estate transactions. His practice primarily focuses on residential projects, including luxury apartment developments.
"James has a substantial practice and is respected in the state."
"He's an excellent lawyer."
Ranked Lawyers at
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Florida: North & Central
Florida: South
Members
Provided by Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Angela Shaw
Christopher Stallings
David Itskovich
Head of Department
James Wheeler
Jo Thacker
Head of Department
Stacey Halpern
Zelica Quigley