Real Estate

Sidley’s real estate team is a recognized leader in its field, working across numerous industries, spanning the entire United States and also crossing international borders and markets. Our lawyers are at the forefront of breaking developments in the real estate arena and are well equipped to anticipate and navigate changes in real estate development and finance that may affect our clients’ businesses. The team works on a wide range of real estate transactions, real estate litigation, bankruptcies and workouts. This experience encompasses advising on large and sophisticated deals.

“They’ve established themselves as our go-to firm on a broad array of transactions. The level of service is remarkably good and the level of professional competence is everything we could ask for and more.”
Chambers USA 2020

Strong advocacy on behalf of our clients has earned us recognition in numerous industry publications, including The Legal 500, U.S. News – Best Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal, The National Law Journal, Law360 and Chambers. In its 2018 edition, Chambers USA highlighted Sidley’s real estate team for having an “impressively diverse real estate practice, handling complex financing transactions, including commercial mortgage-backed securities deals, construction loans and portfolio financing” and for our “stellar experience acting for a range of clients on loan workouts, restructurings and foreclosures.” Sources told the publication, “The firm is very efficient and organized. They're excellent at turning complicated concepts into understandable writing.”

Such accolades stem, in part, from our ability to draw on our worldwide resources, including our real estate lawyers in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Century City, Houston, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. We assist a wide range of organizations, including investment banks, international and national banks and other institutional entities, opportunity and private equity funds, insurance companies, pension trusts and their advisors, REITs, publicly and privately traded homebuilders, hotel companies, and institutional, corporate and individual real estate investors, developers, owners and operators.

“Its knowledge of current market practices makes it invaluable to clients.”
Chambers USA 2020

A diversified practice

In addition to real estate transactions, members of our team focus on land use and government entitlements pertaining to real estate, real estate litigation, bankruptcy, the environment and property and transfer tax. We are also well-versed in the complexities of real estate transaction structures, the unique aspects of new construction and development projects and the regulation of real estate by state and local governments. As an essential part of our real estate counseling we seamlessly harness the knowledge of our firm’s lawyers in such related areas as income tax, ERISA, REMICs, REITs, corporate, and insurance.

Our real estate team is dedicated to fostering strong and lasting relationships with our clients and bringing to each engagement a practical business-oriented approach and a sound understanding of our clients’ business objectives.