Real Property and Construction

Our Real Property and Construction Group helps investors, developers, builders, owners, lessors and tenants maximize the value and utility of real-estate assets.

Leader

Global Overview

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a business world growing increasingly virtual, the need for real estate and related property assets remains as strong as ever. Traditional brick-and-mortar retail stores, factories, hotels and resorts are competing for space with new forms of commercial and manufacturing properties, including high-volume data centers, expanded logistics, distribution and shipping facilities, flexible manufacturing operations, environmentally friendly office towers and multifamily residential developments.

We understand that real estate is a means to many business ends, including increased efficiency, better customer service and higher profitability. Our lawyers represent individual, corporate and institutional real estate investors, developers, owners, lessors and lessees, as well as construction contractors, subcontractors, architects and designers.

Services

Working with lawyers from across member firms and jurisdictions, we provide coordinated, cost-effective counsel and customized, strategic services in the following areas, among others:
Sales, Purchases and Leases
  • Sales and purchases of commercial, industrial, residential and mixed-use property
  • Tenancy, rental, lease, sublease and other agreements
  • Litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution
  • Tax advice, disputes and appeals
  • Public-private partnerships (PPP)
  • Mortgage, refinancing and loan agreements
  • Public finance and investment
  • Public and private bonds and issues
  • Securities acquisition and sales
  • Debt rescheduling, workouts and restructurings
  • Real estate funds and banking trusts
  • Mezzanine, leasehold and permanent finance transactions
  • Joint venture agreements
  • Permitting, licensing and approvals
  • Construction loan agreements
  • Construction, work and services contracts and subcontracting agreements
  • Arbitration and litigation construction claims, bid protests and other controversies
  • Revitalization and development of unused and fallow properties
  • Condominium development and conversions
  • Land use regulation and planning
  • Title, zoning, rezoning, permitting and appeals
  • Heritage designation/preservation
  • Structuring of public-use rights
  • Air space subdivisions
  • Annexation and boundary disputes
  • Compulsory land acquisitions and compensation
  • Conditional uses, variances and nonconforming uses
  • Financing, acquisition, transfer and redevelopment of contaminated or potentially contaminated property
  • Compliance, environmental approvals, permits and operational issues
  • Remediation of brownfields and contaminated property
  • Green-area project development, planning and construction compliance
  • Environmental compliance, LEED-certified construction and green building issues
  • Water and air quality
  • Conservation easements, covenants and equitable servitudes

The ALLY LAW Advantage

Our team includes a number of member firms whose real estate practices were launched more than a century ago. Together, we bring clients a level of institutional knowledge and accrued experience nearly unmatched among legal providers.

We are equally creative and responsive when helping clients address emerging real estate and construction issues, including global, green building practices, new forms of real estate financing and fluctuating interest rates.

Ally Law member firms and individual lawyers have been recognized by Chambers Europe, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers and World Tax, and in numerous local and regional real estate and legal publications.

Our Clients

We counsel clients from across the economic spectrum, including businesses for which real estate and construction are primary areas of focus, as well as companies engaged in industries — such as retail, hospitality, manufacturing, technology, healthcare — that depend on real estate assets to achieve their core strategies and objectives.

Resources

Access essential tools and insights developed by our members to assist in empowering clients’ businesses around the globe.

News

Learn more about industry trends, member firm accomplishments, network news and the changing legal or regulatory environment for our clients.

Rankings

Chambers Canada

The Chambers Canada Guide ranks the top lawyers and law firms across Canada. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.

Kornfeld LLP (Canada, British Columbia)

Chambers Europe

The Chambers Europe Guide ranks top lawyers and law firms across the European legal market. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.

Hayes solicitors LLP

Chambers USA

The Chambers USA Guide ranks the top lawyers and law firms across the USA. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.

Varnum (USA- MI)

Smith Anderson (USA-NC)

Chambers Asia Pacific

The Chambers Asia Pacific Guide ranks the top lawyers and law firms across markets in Asia-Pacific. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.

LNT & Partners (Vietnam)

Chambers UK

The Chambers UK Guide ranks the top lawyers and law firms across the United Kingdom. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.

Edwin Coe LLP

Legal 500 EMEA

The Legal 500 EMEA edition analyzes capabilities of law firms in 80 jurisdictions across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.

Edwin Coe (UK)

KCG Partners (Hungary)

Hayes solicitors LLP (Ireland)

Gitti & Partners (Italy)

Blum & Grob (Switzerland)

Legal 500 Latin America

The Legal 500 Latin America edition analyzes capabilities of law firms in Mexico, Central America and South America. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.

PPO Abogados (Bolivia)

Robalino (Ecuador)

Legal 500 Asia Pacific

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific provides unbiased commentary and insight into the legal marketplaces of 25 Asia Pacific jurisdictions. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.

LNT & Partners (Vietnam)

Formosan Brothers (Taiwan)