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Our Business and Finance Practice represents public and private
companies regionally and nationally. We serve our clients
in complex transactions in the service and technology industries.
Our Firm has earned a reputation for representing project
developers and start-up companies in the areas of business,
taxation, real estate and environmental law that are incidental
to their ventures. We are often involved in a wide range of
commercial finance transactions representing clients that
are in the business of borrowing and lending capital.
- Acquisition Financing
- Asset-Based Financing
- Business Formation
- Corporate Law and Governance
- Document Review and Preparation
- Environmental Matters
- Equipment Leasing
- Letter of Credit Enhanced Financing
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Placements
- Project Contract Negotiation
- Project Finance
- Real Estate Development and Secured Loans
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT?s)
- Sale-Leaseback Financing
- Secured and Unsecured Revolving Credit and Term-Loan Financing
- Securitized and Conduit Lending
- Specialized Financing
- State and Local Government Law
- Structured Financings
- Syndicated Loans
- Synthetic Lease and Sale-Leaseback financing
- Tax Structuring Advice
- Technology and Emerging Companies
- Transactional Finance
Our Construction Law Group has a comprehensive understanding
of the legal issues affecting the construction industry, as
well as the documentary and financial challenges faced by
our clients. Lawyers from our litigation, real estate, land
use and finance practices work together to represent public
and private owners, lenders, developers, design professionals,
construction managers, and general and trade contractors in
connection with many different types of projects. We also
counsel clients in connection with regulatory compliance,
liens and bonding issues, permitting, public and private bidding,
contract negotiations and collections. Examples of projects
that members of the Firm’s Construction Law Group have
worked on include:
- Developing hotels in major metropolitan areas throughout
the United States, including Philadelphia, New York, Newark
and Atlanta;
- General and selective demolition of industrial centers,
commercial buildings and bridges, including the Walt Whitman
Bridge;
- Challenging and defending bid awards;
• Presenting claims on behalf of general and trade
contractors at Philadelphia’s newest and largest ship
building facility;
- Defending and prosecuting claims on federal and state
funded projects;
- Preparation of standard contracting and subcontracting
forms for national and regional contractors, contract managers,
and developers
- Commercial Collections
Our Hospitality Law Group works with franchisors, developers,
governmental agencies and municipalities, management companies,
and lenders on new projects and existing hotels throughout
the United States.
- Acquisition, development, construction, and receivables
financing
- Acquisition, management, and sales of hotels and resorts
- Commercial leasing
- Environmental assessment and remediation
- Liquor Licensing
- Municipal finance and special districts
- Purchases and sales of major hotel development projects
- Workouts and bankruptcy
Our Litigation Department represents an array of regional
and national clients, operating in public and private sectors.
We handle all types of commercial litigation and represent
clients in local, state and federal courts, at both trial
and appellate levels.
- Bankruptcy
- Breach of contract
- Commercial disputes
- Construction law
- Insurance coverage
- Labor and employment
- Product liability
- Project finance
- Real Estate
- Workouts and failed transactions
Our Real Estate Law Group provides representation for corporate,
institutional and entrepreneurial clients in acquisition,
development, financing, leasing, sales and other complex transactions:
- Commercial real estate loans
- Conduit financing
- Construction law
- Franchise law
- Historic tax-credit development
- Office development
- Government-subsidized Housing
- Land use
- Power Centers
- Shopping Centers
- Real Estate Investment Trusts
- Urban hotel development
- Workouts and failed transactions
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