Services
CGS3 provides legal services throughout the commercial real estate life cycle. We look at the implications that can affect your transactions down the road to protect your interests and maximize your investment in office, industrial, retail and mixed-use properties.
Buy/Sell
- Letters of intent
- Purchase agreements
- Title review
- Due diligence
- Lease and contract review
Financing
- Acquisition loans
- Development loans
- Construction loans
- Permanent and semi-permanent loans
- Participating and convertible loans
- Revolving credit facilities
- Mezzanine loans
Construction/Development
- Design professional agreements
- Construction agreements
- Design-build agreements
- Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreements
- Owner participation agreements
- Subcontracts
- Payment/performance bonds
- CC&Rs and REAs
Management
- Property management agreements
- Listing agreements
- Service provider agreements
- Consulting agreements
Commercial Leasing
- Retail leasing
- Office leasing
- Industrial leasing
- Medical leasing
- Life science/biotech leasing
Distressed Real Estate Workouts
- Loan restructurings
- Loan sales
- Leasing and evictions
- Deed in lieu transactions
- Foreclosure proceedings
- Guaranty enforcement actions
- Receivership and bankruptcy
- Short sales, receivership sales and REO sales
Entity Formation and Tax
- LLCs and partnership formations
- Strategic tax and business law counseling
- Entity and tax disputes
- Federal, state and local tax controversies
- Nonprofit corporations
- Fiduciary duties
- Workouts and debt discharge
- Expert witness services
Disputes and Litigation
- Business and real estate negotiations
- Ownership interests
- Dissolution of business entities
- Breaches of contract and business torts
- Workouts and foreclosure of distressed property
- Landlord/tenant lease disputes
- Construction disputes
- Easements and other real property interests
- Land use decisions by public entities
- Employment agreements and issues
- Insurance claims
- Holders of personal guarantees
- Unlawful Detainers
Land Use/Environmental/ Natural Resources (“LER”)
- Pre-purchase/leasing due diligence
- California Planning, Zoning and Subdivision Law/obtaining entitlements from local jurisdictions and other agencies
- Rezoning and variances
- Master and general plan adoptions and amendments
- Zoning or building code enforcement actions
- Environmental enforcement actions by agencies regulating water quality, air quality, hazardous substances, and other resources
- California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance
- Impact fees, exactions and other conditions of development approvals
- Historic landmark designation and preservation
- Easements/abandonments
- Condemnation of property rights by public agencies
- Defense of administrative and judicial challenges to development approvals