Real Estate

Drawing on cross-disciplinary and cross-border strengths, Steptoe’s property team is skilled in navigating a wide range of real estate transactions. This includes property acquisition and disposition, financing and leveraging real property for working capital, and property development, redevelopment and repositioning. We also aid with negotiating leases, address planning, zoning, and environmental concerns, and guide investments in performing or distressed real estate.

We handle a variety of real estate matters for owners, property managers, developers, investors, and tenants. Our representation spans various asset classes, including industrial, infrastructure, office, mixed-use, residential, retail, and hotel and leisure properties and developments. Our capabilities include advising on real estate and property issues, regulatory issues, acquisition and disposition negotiations and transactions, real estate financings, leasing issues, construction and development negotiation and documentation, creation of special purpose entities to hold real property assets such as limited partnerships and limited liability companies, and distressed asset workouts and opportunities. Our services are complemented and supplemented by our corporate transactions, tax, regulatory, and restructuring practice groups as well as our litigation groups, which are well-versed in construction disputes and other disputes to help us obtain swift and efficient resolutions for our clients.

Our aim is to provide responsive, cost-effective, and excellent service to clients.

"The property team at Steptoe is very partner-focused and as a result, provides clients with a service that we have found to be second to none."- Legal 500 UK, 2023