Mier Law’s transactional real estate practice encompasses a broad range of commercial real estate including acquisitions and dispositions of improved and unimproved properties, homebuilding and single-family and master-planned community development, real estate finance and lending, real estate loan workouts, retail development, leasing, and associated corporate work and mergers and acquisitions.

If it’s related to real estate, it’s likely within our wheelhouse.

Mier Law attorneys have particular expertise in the following areas:

Homebuilding and Single-Family Development

Homebuilding and single-family development has been a core practice area of the Firm since its inception.  Mier Law represents builders of all sizes from local and regional builders up to and including large national and publicly traded companies.  Mier Law attorneys are regularly involved in all aspects of our clients’ transactional real estate matters, and it naturally follows that we often serve as outside general counsel due to our intimate working relationships with many of our clients.  Our typical services in this practice area include:

• Purchase and sale of land and lots
• Acquisition of development tracts
• Development Agreements
• Development-related easements and agreements
• Contractor Agreements
• Landbanking
• Cost Sharing Agreements
• Title and survey review and other due diligence
• Review of Declaration, restrictive covenants and deed restrictions
• Business entity formation
• Closing services
• Lender Subordination and Intercreditor Agreements

Commercial Real Estate Finance

Mier Law’s real estate finance team represents banks, funds, private equity sponsors, institutional lenders, REITs, investors, sponsors, real estate owners and operators, developers and other lender and borrower parties in all types of real estate lending transactions on a national scale, including permanent, bridge, conduit, balance sheet, construction, mezzanine, subordinate, pari passu and preferred equity financing, as well as syndicated and bi-lateral credit facilities.  We also have significant experience in the commercial mortgage secondary market, representing originators/loan sellers in CMBS and CLO securitizations, whole loan sales and acquisitions and note splits, syndications and participations, as well as buyers/lenders and sellers/borrowers in warehouse and repurchase facilities.  We also routinely advise investors in the acquisition and servicing of performing and distressed assets, which distressed asset servicing work includes loan workouts, forbearances and other modifications, foreclosures, deed in lieu of foreclosure transactions, discounted payoffs and sales of REO properties.   Our team has the experience, talent and depth to perform significant due diligence and document production with transactional speed and efficiency.

Our experience encompasses all asset classes and includes multi-family, retail, office, industrial, restaurant, hospitality, mixed-use and franchised properties.

Specific relevant experience includes

• Conduit, securitized and Government Sponsored Entity (i.e., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae) lending
• Balance sheet lending
• Multi-property and multi-state transactions, having closed transactions in virtually every state in the country
• Sale-leaseback financing
• Construction lending
• Bridge and permanent financing
• Acquisition and development financing
• Mezzanine, subordinate, pari-passu and preferred equity financing
• Note splits and participations
• Master repurchase and warehouse facilities
• Syndicated and bi-lateral credit facilities, including term loans, revolvers and letters of credit
• Master servicing
• Loan workouts, modifications, forbearances and foreclosures
• Whole loan sales
• Acquisition and disposition of distressed assets
• REO sales
• Securitization and other secondary market transactions

Property Sectors and Types

• Multi-family
• Retail
• Office
• Mixed-Use
• Industrial
• Restaurants and other franchised properties (e.g., convenience stores)
• Hospitality – hotels, resorts and convention centers
• Self-storage
• Mobile home parks
• Tenant-in-Common and Delaware statutory trust structures
• Tax-incentivized developments (e.g., PILOT programs, TIF districts, historic tax credits and low income housing credits)
• Master lease and operating lease structures
• Condominium regimes
• Ground lease and sub-ground lease properties

Real Estate Joint Venture Transactions and Entity Formation

Mier Law attorneys have significant experience in the formation of both deal-specific and programmatic joint ventures, having represented  numerous public and private REITs and other institutional real estate companies on the investor side, as well as investment and development funds and other real estate operators on the developer/operator side.   We have advised clients in the formation and operation of single and multi-tiered joint ventures relating to the acquisition, construction, development and re-development of all asset classes located throughout the country, including office, retail, single-family, multi-family, self-storage, industrial and hospitality properties.

Commercial Leasing

Another core practice area of Mier Law is commercial real estate leasing transactions of all asset classes on a national basis including, but not limited to, landlord and tenant representation in office, retail, shopping center, medical building, warehouse and industrial leasing.

Travel Center Development

Mier Law also maintains a niche practice of representing travel center developers and fuel station operators in all phases of site acquisition, development, and operations on a national basis.  We provide strategic counsel on ground leasing, site development, and complex title issues to help clients efficiently launch and operate successful retail fuel and convenience destinations.