Winning Legal Strategies for Real Estate Leading Lawyers on Securing Financing, Structuring Contracts, And Ensuring Successful Transactions

Inside the Minds: Winning Legal Strategies for Real Estate is a guide for attorneys and their clients on the best methods for structuring real estate transactions and successfully handling the most common legal issues that arise in the process. Covering a wide array of topics ranging from tax strategies and ownership structure to liability and asset management, the twelve seasoned attorneys in this book discuss the substantive planning issues in real estate, as well as the subtle techniques that distinguish well-managed, lucrative projects from the rest. Readers will gain insight into each phase of the real estate transaction, from due diligence and initial negotiations to mechanisms for dispute resolution. With practical tips and useful sample documents, and an unprecedented collection of different niches and perspectives from the real estate world, this book is critical reading for anyone involved in this endlessly demanding field.About Inside the Minds:Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book.Table of Contents:Jonathan C. Black, Partner & Kenneth R. Goldberg, Partner, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP? A LAYMAN?S GUIDE TO TAX STRATEGIES IN REAL ESTATE;Mark L. Morris, Chairman, Real Estate Department, Fox Rothschild LLP? ADDING VALUE FOR CLIENTS IN REAL ESTATE LAW;Howard L. Feinsand, Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Duke Realty Corporation?A BREAKDOWN OF COMMON LEGAL ISSUES IN REAL ESTATE;Jana Cohen Blackman, Chair, National Real Estate Practice Group, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal?AN INTELLECTUALLY GRATIFYING AND HIGHLY TANGIBLE BUSINESS;Herman C. Fala, Chair, Real Estate Department, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP?REAL ESTATE LAW: A SUMMARY OF THE SPECIALTY;Jay Epstien, Chair, U.S. Real Estate Practice, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP? USING A VARIETY OF SKILLS TO SATISFY A VARIETY OF CLIENTS;Robert J. Ivanhoe, Chair, National Real Estate Practice, Greenberg Traurig? A REAL ESTATE LAWYER?S ROLE IN A WHITE-HOT REAL ESTATE MARKET;Zeff A. Weiss, Chair, Real Estate Section, Ice Miller? GETTING DOWN TO BASICS;Sheri P. Chromow, Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP? REAL ESTATE OWNERSHIP: A SERIES OF CYCLES;L. Suzan Kedron, Partner, Jackson Walker LLP? MAKING AN IMPACT RIGHT FROM THE START; Frank L. Baker III, Partner, Robinson & Cole LLP?THREE REAL COMMANDMENTS OF REAL ESTATE VALUE: USE, LOCATION, AND TIMING.Aspatore Books Staff is the author of 'Winning Legal Strategies for Real Estate Leading Lawyers on Securing Financing, Structuring Contracts, And Ensuring Successful Transactions' with ISBN 9781587623509 and ISBN 1587623501.