A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions

For proven guidance and techniques for handling a commercial real estate deal, turn to the revised and expanded edition of A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions. Organized to help you negotiate and close the deal, this readable guide follows the steps of a transaction in the order in which they generally arise and offers pertinent advice, practice comments, and sample forms.

Because much of the real estate lawyer's practice revolves around transactional documents, the book emphasizes the drafting, negotiation, and revision needed to get a deal closed. Written by a law professor and two real estate practitioners, this book offers a useful combination of text overview and practice pointers. It helps lawyers with less experience navigate through the maze of steps involved in a real estate transaction. At the same time, it serves as a valuable reference for more seasoned attorneys as well as those whose practice is concentrated in other areas of the law. Downloadable forms and appendices are available online.

Gregory M. Stein is the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he teaches property, real estate finance, real estate development, and land use courses. He regularly contributes law review articles and continuing legal education chapters in these areas, and he speaks frequently on these topics. He is a Fellow and a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Tennessee, Stein practiced commercial real estate law with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School.

Morton P. Fisher, Jr., is a retired partner in the Baltimore office of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP. He has been involved in a variety of real estate transactions, representing developers, lending institutions, commercial tenants, and other parties. He lectures and writes regularly on real estate topics and is a former president of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, a former chair of the American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, and a member of the American Law Institute. Fisher is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School.

Michael D. Goodwin is a partner in Arnold & Porter LLP’s Washington, DC, office and chair of its national real estate practice. His practice encompasses all facets of commercial real estate, with particular emphasis on development, public/private partnerships, debt and equity financing, ground leases, and hospitality. Goodwin is a Fellow and a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School.