The firm specializes in complex commercial real estate transactions for lenders, investors, developers and builders.
We have extensive experience in providing legal services in all aspects of both residential and commercial developments involving mandatory membership owners associations and planned communities.
Services Offered
- Organizing business entities, including small corporations, limited and general partnerships, and limited liability companies
- Reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts for the acquisition of land
- Facilitating the closing of commercial transactions
- Reviewing, drafting and negotiating development and takedown agreements
- Drafting governing documents required to establish condominium, residential, commercial, town home, mixed-use and master planned communities. This includes preparing the declaration of covenants, conditions, restrictions and easements, articles of incorporation and bylaws for owners associations for residential, commercial and mixed-use projects, including planned unit developments with recreational amenities, golf courses, open space, conservation areas, lakes, private roads and alleys, town centers, live-work-play communities and other amenities
- Forming nonprofit homeowners associations with the Georgia Secretary of State
- Reviewing covenants for clients to assess risks prior to acquisition
- Determining the applicability of covenants to property acquired through foreclosure
- Reviewing existing community association governing documents on behalf of its clients prior to acquisition to assess the risks associated with building and developing property in an existing, established community.
- Drafting condominium documents and master condominium documents and reviewing condominium plats and condominium floor plans for compliance with the Georgia Condominium Act
- Drafting governing documents for assisted living and age restricted projects