Real Estate

Three areas of real estate transactions comprise the bulk of the Real Estate Practice Group: representation of business and residential developers; representation of large property owners, including timber and recreational entities; and secured lender financing of real estate acquisitions and construction. The firm has exceptional experience in representing lenders, corporations, utilities and developers in a varied field of business enterprises, including large industrial and commercial projects, utility and power transmission facilities, land subdivisions, condominiums, recreational resorts (timeshares), forested timber holdings, and coastal and wetland development. Examples of specific matters recently handled by the firm include on-going representation of a multinational corporation engaged in the acquisition, development and lease of service stations, convenience stores and related distribution facilities throughout Northern New England; siting an electrical transmission line through several municipalities in southern Maine; negotiation and drafting of industrial, commercial and retail leases; reorganization and recomposition of the debt of numerous real estate limited partnerships owning a wide variety of commercial facilities; representation of an emissions control company in its acquisition and start-up operations covering seven separate sites through southeastern and central Maine; representation of a national timberland investment company in its acquisition and disposition of thousands of acres of timberlands; representation of a foreign forest products company in its purchasing of timber interests in Northern New England; and representation in the acquisition, leasing and management of major holdings in the downtown Portland office market including the acclaimed Portland Public Market.