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Morrison & Foerster’s real estate attorneys offer expert service in all aspects of real estate acquisition, development, financing, investment, ownership, leasing, and operation. Our more than 70 real estate and land use attorneys worldwide represent a variety of industry participants in virtually all aspects of real estate entitlement and development, financing, acquisition, co-investment, construction, leasing, management, and related fields. We deal regularly with all significant real estate product types, including office, commercial, industrial, multi-family, hospitality, and specialized uses, such as energy. Our clients include major domestic and foreign real estate developers, lenders (both portfolio and securitized), investors, contractors, pension funds and advisors, fund sponsors, REITS, commingled and opportunity funds, and a variety of service providers to the real estate industry.

Our real estate attorneys are located in the firm’s New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, Palo Alto, Hong Kong, Washington, D.C., Denver, Walnut Creek, Sacramento, and San Diego offices. The attorneys in our Real Estate Group also work in cooperation with attorneys in the firm’s financial transactions, tax, securities, corporate law, bankruptcy, litigation, and other practice areas to bring the full resources of the firm to bear in addressing the needs of our clients. Our experience and resources allow us to provide our clients with the most effective legal representation notwithstanding the location, size, staffing needs, time constraints or complexity of any transaction.

Our real estate attorneys are recognized as being outstanding in their field cited in such publications as A Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers for Business, America's Leading Lawyers for Business and Chambers USA: The Client's Guide 2004. Attorneys in our Real Estate Group are members of the principal professional associations serving the real estate industry, including the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), Urban Land Institute (ULI), Mortgage Bankers Association of America (MBA), Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), American College of Mortgage Attorneys (ACMA), Lambda Alpha International, and the Anglo-American Real Property Institute (AARPI).