
Real Estate Continues To Hold Interest Of Family Offices
Private funding has become a more important part of real estate's financing puzzle as the industry has navigated a couple of rocky years. As high-net-worth investors gathered at a conference with experts in finance and real estate last week, they offered plenty of signs the fit will remain strong.

Private Equity Propels Lenders Counsel Inner Circle
Firms putting together large, complex real estate deals often pick their lender's legal counsel, especially in rapidly evolving areas like data centers. Attorneys say the practice makes deals more efficient, but it has prompted ethical questions.

Attorneys Go Old School To Get Data Centers Approved
Data centers are key to making cutting-edge technology available in today's digital era, but attorneys say the secret to getting the projects approved is old-fashioned legwork.
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Prologis Inc. is bullish on data center development in the near term and said on its recent quarterly earnings call that spending $3 billion a year in data center starts would be "very easy" for the real estat... (more story)
Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson PA has picked up a new of counsel for its Tampa office, adding an attorney from Phelps Dunbar LLP who is experienced in transactional real estate matters.

Stibbe and A&O Shearman are among the law firms that helped with the 10 largest global real estate mergers and acquisitions through the third quarter.
Hong Kong-based conglomerate Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd. said Friday it will acquire the remaining 11.96% of Mandarin Oriental International Ltd. that it does not already own, valuing the luxury hotel opera... (more story)
Steptoe LLP has hired the former lead land use and real estate counsel for Florida's almost $3 billion I-4 ultimate highway reconstruction project, who has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., transactions prac... (more story)
In this week's Taxation With Representation, the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners acquire Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset Manage... (more story)
The prepetition lenders to bankrupt affiliates of troubled real estate firm CBRM Realty Inc. have asked a New Jersey bankruptcy court to dismiss the Chapter 11, saying that the real goal of the case is to "vau... (more story)
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Federal prosecutors in North Carolina have accused a Charlotte housing advocate of using the Medicaid beneficiary numbers of unhoused individuals to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar fraud on the government, c... (more story)
Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan for the Eastern District of Virginia could face bar disciplinary action or court sanctions if the prosecutions she's pursuing at President Donald Trump's behest are found... (more story)

The extension of a key legal tool in California for easing development on contaminated sites can relieve the state's housing shortage, though more work can be done to improve the legislation and make it work b... (more story)
The former deputy criminal chief for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Norfolk, Virginia, Thursday joined the team defending New York Attorney General Letitia James in the government's case accusing her of mortgag... (more story)
A pair of real estate developers have been charged in separate fraud cases alleging that they misused millions of dollars meant to build and operate affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness, the... (more story)
A group of domestic and foreign insurers including underwriters at Lloyd's of London have asked a Louisiana federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit seeking an order to arbitrate a $7 million Hurricane Ida damag... (more story)
The real estate arm of StepStone Group Inc. and European real estate investment firm Greykite have announced a €1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) deal to acquire and recapitalize Vitalia, Spain's second largest owner... (more story)