From the acquisition and financing of a corporate headquarters to the construction of a publicly funded sporting facility, the lawyers of the Firm’s Real Estate Group have the background and experience to successfully complete a client’s real estate project.
Privately and publicly held corporations, as well as individual investors, around the country turn to our real estate lawyers for assistance in all aspects of real estate law, whether it’s leasing, acquisitions, shopping center development, tackling difficult environmental issues, private and public financing, property taxation including tax exemptions and abatements, land assemblage and zoning, tax credit syndications, residential and commercial construction, multi-family development, tax-deferred exchanges or any of the multitude of other real estate needs a client may have.
Ranked No. 4 by Midwest Real Estate News magazine in 2006 as one of the Top 25 Real Estate Law Firms in the Midwest, Ulmer & Berne boasts a real estate practice consisting of lawyers with a broad scope of talent and expertise. The Firm’s real estate lawyers are listed in national publications such as Chambers USA and Best Lawyers in America, as well as in state and local publications as being among the tops in their profession.
We serve as national leasing counsel to a specialty retailer with approximately 900 stores around the country, and are regularly engaged by the world’s largest restaurant company (with over 33,000 restaurants worldwide) with respect to property transfers around the country. Our clients also include leading apartment owners and developers, shopping center owners, general contractors, national home builders, property managers, lenders, investors, municipalities and school districts. These local and national clients reflect the diverse and specialized areas engaged in by our real estate lawyers.