Real Estate:

Over its long history, our real estate lawyers have used their legal knowledge and negotiating skills in finding creative ways to assist clients in achieving their business and real estate objectives. These lawyers are part of the firm’s corporate practice group of more than 200 lawyers.

Our clients often require innovative approaches to the rapidly changing political and business climates and legal regulations that shape the real estate arena. By focusing first on a client’s overall planning and business objectives, our lawyers can provide more meaningful counsel. El-Khoury & Partners Legal Counsel is committed to not only the timely and efficient delivery of quality legal services, but moreover, to be a “value added” member of our client’s team. To achieve this end, we operate as a single organization worldwide, rather than as a loose confederation of affiliated offices. This approach ensures clients the benefit of a wealth of international resources, expertise and energy regardless of geographic location.

The real estate lending practice of El-Khoury & Partners Legal Counsel and Squire Sanders encompass the full spectrum of issues and structures, including construction, interim and permanent loan financing transactions. The firm’s services range from preparation of commitment materials through compliance with funding requirements.

Our real estate lending practice encompasses the full spectrum of issues and structures including construction, interim and permanent loan financing transactions. Our services range from preparation of commitment materials through compliance with funding requirements.

Hospitality:

El-Khoury & Partners Legal Counsel and Squire Sanders have broad experience in the hotels and leisure industry. We have served developers, owners, operators, franchisors, franchisees, financial institutions and convention center and redevelopment authorities. Our clients include European corporations and REITs, multinational corporations, closely held businesses, individual entrepreneurs and public bodies. The projects we handle are located around the world and cover every type of hotel and leisure property including hotels, resorts, condo hotels, hotels with serviced condominiums, convention centers, conference facilities, spas, snowskiing facilities, golf courses, golf and tennis clubs (equity and non-equity), and timeshare/fractional ownership projects. These projects involve freestanding properties and those that are part of a multi-use project or a master-planned community.

The firm’s hotels and leisure practice group is experienced in all facets of the acquisition and development of hotels and leisure properties, including both single assets, portfolios of assets and properties contained within master planned communities. Lawyers in the group provide a full range of legal services in connection with the issues attending acquisition and development, including real estate and construction matters, liquor and business licensing, service mark and trademark protection, tax matters, franchise and management company issues, environmental issues, antitrust and regulatory compliance, and labour and employment considerations.

Constructions:

El-Khoury & Partners Legal Counsel and Squire Sanders lawyers have assisted private entities and governmental bodies in planning, financing and implementing infrastructure projects such as airports, bridges, ports, railways, roadways and mass transit systems, and communications, health care and education facilities. Our lawyers have also been involved in project financing aspects of economic development projects, including sports stadiums, museums, urban development projects, waterfront development and marina projects, port authority projects, housing projects, neighborhood development, manufacturing facilities, office buildings, industrial parks, warehousing facilities and mixed-use entertainment/retail facilities.

Our lawyers work with major project sponsors, financial advisors, investment banks, commercial banks, export credit agencies and multilateral financial institutions. Our work in project finance also extends to multilateral and commercial bank debt as well as other sophisticated finance structures such as leveraged leasing and public finance.