Schottenstein Zox & Dunn

The real estate market is undergoing significant stress and is facing challenges in the current economic climate. The disruption in traditional capital markets is changing the dynamics of commercial real estate transactions. Our full service real estate practice group is prepared to work with our clients to help them adapt to these conditions and pursue opportunities by creating legal solutions and providing strategic business advice.
 
SZD’s real estate and land use attorneys provide services in all phases of real estate transactions, from planning and structuring deals to identifying problems and implementing solutions.

Representing developers, lenders, investors, landlords, tenants, owners and brokers, SZD serves a wide-range of clients including publicly-held and private companies, public pension funds, governmental entities, port authorities, real estate investment trusts, partnerships, joint ventures, non-profit entities and individuals.  We provide services in the following areas:

• acquiring and disposing of real property, including due diligence, contract implementation and government permitting and authorizations
• development of raw land or redevelopment of improved land including land assemblage, zoning and annexation
• leasing of retail, commercial, industrial, medical and general office properties
• formation of condominiums
• real estate financing, including mortgage lending and bond financing
• structuring joint venture transactions
• evaluating environmental concerns, including associated economic risks and compliance costs
• addressing the emerging legal issues and risks associated with green building and sustainable development
• creating reciprocal and appurtenant interests in real property
• negotiating public-private partnerships for development
• resolving complex title issues and providing title insurance products associated therewith
• resolving real estate tax valuation disputes

Our attorneys include those named America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Real Estate by Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers and Legal Elite.  Our team also includes LEED accredited legal counsel.  Our real estate practice is full service and benefits from an array of other attorneys and professionals with expertise in other disciplines, such as tax and wealth management, corporate governance, environmental law and government relations, to provide prompt, adaptive responses to our clients’ needs.

Experience

• Representation of a developer with respect to a large complex downtown urban master development plan for office, residential, medical, entertainment and retail uses.
• Representation of an urban arts school in acquiring downtown Columbus real estate and subsequent development/ redevelopment of college campus over 25+ years.
• Representation of a developer with respect to a 27 acre shopping center from initial development planning, resolution of title issues, leasing, sale of outlots, negotiation of a reciprocal easement and operating agreement.
• Representation of numerous non-profit entities with respect to tax exempt land transactions.
• Served as bond and underwriting counsel with respect to State of Ohio bond issues.
• Representation of a developer with respect to the acquisition of 1,000,000 square feet of industrial property, including obtaining entitlements and governmental incentives for redevelopment thereof.
• Served as counsel to numerous national retail landlord and tenant entitles with regard to all retail real estate matters, including negotiation of leases in shopping centers throughout the United States.
• Representation of a municipal corporation with respect to the acquisition and leasing of an approximate 100 acre property to be redeveloped as a technology park.
• Representation of a municipal corporation with respect to a private public partnership for the redevelopment of property located within a historic district.
• Representation of a client which moved its corporate headquarters to a renovated LEED certified building in Washington D.C.
• Representation of a client with respect to the relocation of health care facilities.