Real Estate

Our real estate attorneys have multi-disciplinary experience that spans the spectrum of real estate development, investment and finance. We represent developers, contractors, banks and insurance company lenders for both transactional and litigation matters.

The firm's Real Estate practice was ranked number one in Utah in the first Chambers USA guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers. According to the Guide, "The firm's real estate practice handles many of the state's top-end real estate deals, and is doing great work for major developers." David Gee was ranked as a leading real estate and was widely endorsed by peers as a "top real estate attorney" who is "always willing to make the deal work well for both sides."

Charles Maak, also ranked number one in the Guide was regarded as "the dean of real estate law in Utah," and is described as "thorough, meticulous and reasonable in negotiation," with a forceful yet "honest" style. Bruce Maak was praised as a "hard negotiator with a broad range of experience."

Our legal expertise in the real estate industry including:

• commercial projects, ranging from office towers and residential developments to retail and entertainment complexes.
  
  
• real estate finance, including lender representations in large, complex loan closings to development engagements on the borrower's behalf.
  
  
• pre-development issues, such as negotiating and structuring ownership entities, tax planning, property due diligence (including title examination and certification), and land use planning and regulation, including zoning and subdivision regulation.
  
  
• all aspects of the development process, including preparing contracts for the design and construction of buildings, negotiating and closing private or government-supported project financing, negotiating and preparing leases, and handling project disposition
  
  
• breach of real estate contracts, landlord- tenant disputes, and fraudulent transfers and brokerage commission disputes.

• boundary disputes, land and real property appraisals and arbitrations, and real property tax reduction.

• foreclosures and loan workouts.

For more information about our Real Estate group, please contact David Gee.

Attorneys serving the Real Estate group:

• Ahlstrom, James L.
• Drecksel, Paul C.
• Gee, David E.
• Hansen, Dale T.
• Henriksen, Roger D.
• Jensen, Daniel A.
• Loveless, Scott W.
• Maak, Charles L.
• Maak, Bruce A.
• Matkin, Justin P.
• McConnell, Robert A.
• Russell, Ronald G.
• Schofield, Jonathan R.
• Smith, Damian C.
• Taylor, Victor A.