
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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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)
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)

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.
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)
MGM Resorts International, guided by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, plans to sell the operations of a racetrack and casino in Northfield Park, Ohio, for $546 million to private equity firm Clairvest Group, advised... (more story)
SL Green Realty Corp. has purchased the Park Avenue Tower in Manhattan from Blackstone Inc. for $730 million, in a transaction guided by Greenberg Traurig LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP has brought on the former leader of Stites & Harbison PLLC's Atlanta office to its own office in the city, bolstering its real estate and finance services with an attorney who ... (more story)
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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 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)

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)
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 property owner has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on her case alleging a Michigan county improperly kept the excess proceeds of her tax-foreclosed home sale, arguing the justices should settle a co... (more story)
Lawyers for a homebuilder are asking Delaware's Supreme Court to reconsider its decision affirming the dismissal of a legal malpractice suit against Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC over damages the builder... (more story)
Institutional fund manager Pantzer Properties said it has raised more than $1 billion for a real estate fund that aims to acquire and oversee "institutional-quality" U.S. multifamily properties located on the ... (more story)