
Your Competition Is Probably Investing In Their Clients
Legal advisers typically sit beside, not across, from their clients, and advise on deals rather than take part in them.

Owners Probe Refi Possibilities In Clean Energy Finance Tool
After a clean energy finance tool gained steam as a relatively low-cost, long-term financing option, property owners in some states are now leaning on its retroactive capabilities to free up capital and pay down senior lenders.

Paul Hastings Guides Artemis From Founding To Takeover
When Paul Hastings partner Joshua H. Sternoff was initially pitched on repping Debbie Harmon and Penny Pritzker in creating the first women-owned real estate investment business, he thought it was a bet worth taking. About 16 years and several fundraising cycles later, Sternoff and others at Paul Hastings steered Artemis Real Estate Partners through what might be its biggest move yet.
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With an estimated 1 billion square feet of office space currently vacant across the country and housing affordability a widespread concern, office-to-residential conversions have obvious appeal. But experts sp... (more story)
A Luxembourg-based investment firm sued artificial intelligence homebuying platform ReAlpha in New York federal court, seeking to enforce a $100 million share purchase agreement a week after a federal judge re... (more story)

When the General Services Administration announced it was terminating roughly 1,000 of its leases, a pair of lawyers at Holland & Knight LLP started getting calls from clients. In some cases, they advised them... (more story)
Baron Property Group borrowed $206 million from investment advisory firm Post Road Group to build its 661-unit Metro Parc North residential project in Hialeah, Florida, according to a Thursday announcement.
Cook County property owners who mistakenly brought discriminatory assessment accusations in state court before taking their allegations to federal court can continue pursuing those claims, an Illinois judge sa... (more story)
Vinson & Elkins LLP has announced the return of a Denver environmental lawyer from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
A D.C. federal judge has let the Redding Rancheria file a friend of the court brief in two tribes' challenge to the U.S. government's decision to take 221 acres into trust for the rancheria's casino project, r... (more story)
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A group of borrowers faced an uphill battle Thursday trying to convince the Fourth Circuit to revive their class claims accusing Navy Federal Credit Union of discriminatory lending practices, with one judge ch... (more story)
QXO Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. for $11 billion following an at-times contentious takeover attempt that included Beacon's rejection of a prior QXO buyout proposal, in... (more story)

Efforts in Sacramento to protect and preserve land in Califfornia have contributed to a severe shortage of housing, one of Holland & Knight LLP's real estate leaders told Law360 Real Estate Authority in a recent interview.
A California state jury in Los Angeles found Wednesday that 20 residents of an art loft building waited too long to file toxic exposure claims, but suggested that the building owners caused the delays, trigger... (more story)
A Swiss company with failed plans to develop a Prague residential complex has lost its bid to revive a $230 million damages claim against the Czech Republic based on arguments that the arbitrators had not adeq... (more story)
Florida's First District Court of Appeal confirmed Wednesday that Walton County, Florida, had a right to a public easement on a beach, finding it need not have exercised that right before the federal governmen... (more story)
QXO extended its Tuesday deadline for Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. shareholders to tender their shares until Wednesday, after announcing earlier in the month that friendly discussions had begun amid the once-hos... (more story)