Practice Areas

Please contact The Raulin Professional Group by telephone or e-mail to learn more about the full range of sophisticated legal services that we can provide you in our areas of practice----business organizations, commercial leasing, commercial transactions, construction, equity investment, institutional lending, real estate transactions and development, and related dispute resolution.

I.  Business Organizations Law

•  Corporations
•  Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)
•  General Partnerships
•  Joint Ventures (JVs)
•  Non-Profit Corporations
•  Associations

•  Choice of Business Entity
•  Business Entity Formation
    & Organizational Documents
•  Conversion from One Entity Form to Another
•  Mergers & Acquisitions (Closely Held)
•  Dissolution & Winding Up
•  Dispute Resolution

II.  Commercial Transactions Law

•  Covenants Not to Compete
•  Executive Employment Agreements
•  Franchise Agreements
•  Sales of Business Assets
•  Software License Agreements
•  Vendor Services Agreements

III.  Construction Law

•  Construction Contracts
•  Development Services Agreements
•  Professional Services Agreements (Architects & Engineers)
•  Construction Financing
•  Construction Easements & Related Agreements
•  Construction Liens (Mechanic's & Materialman's Liens)
•  Dispute Resolution

IV.  Real Estate Law

•  Apartments & other Multifamily Housing
•  Churches, Synagogues & other Religious Properties
•  Condominiums: Commercial, Mixed-Use & Residential
•  Hotels, Motels & Inns
•  Industrial: Manufacturing, Storage & Distribution Facilities
•  Master-Planned Developments: Commercial, Mixed-Use & Residential
•  Farms, Ranches & Timberland
•  Restaurants

    A.  Acquisition, Sales & Exchanges

•  Letters of Intent
•  Purchase Option Agreements
•  Like-Kind Exchange Agreements
•  Purchase & Sale Agreements
•  Title, Survey & Supervision of other Due Diligence Matters
•  Formation of Business Entities to Hold Title (including SPEs & BREs)
•  Negotiation of Debt, Mezzanine & Equity Financing

    B.  Development

•  Negotiation of Construction Financing
•  Construction Contracts
•  Development Services Agreements
•  Architect’s & other Design Professionals’ Services Agreements
•  Entitlements & Permitting
•  Construction-Related Easements
•  Utility Service Agreements & Related Easements
•  Telecommunications Bulk-Service Agreements
•  Reciprocal Easement Agreements (REAs)
•  Operations and Easement Agreements (OEAs)
•  Commercial, Mixed-Use & Residential Subdivision Covenants (CCRs)
•  Commercial, Mixed-Use & Residential Condominium Documents
•  Registrations under Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act
•  Transferable  Development Rights (TDRs)

    C.  Commercial Leasing

•  Ground Leases
•  Office Leases
•  Restaurant Leases
•  Shopping Center & other Retail Leases
•  Assignment & Subleasing
•  Property Management Agreements

    D.  Real Estate-Secured Lending

•  Acquisition Financing
•  Construction/Development Financing
•  Leasehold Financing
•  Mezzanine Financing
•  Permanent Financing
•  Securitized Financing (Local Counsel)

    E.  Distressed Properties

•  Evictions, Ejectments & Dispossessory Actions
•  Commercial Forbearances & Workouts
•  Commercial Foreclosures
•  Commercial REO Property Purchases & Sales
•  Quiet Title Actions