Cummings & Lockwood’s Commercial Real Estate Group provides practical and sophisticated legal representation for our clients’ varied real estate needs at the local, regional and national level. The firm has also played an integral role in many of the major real estate developments in Connecticut over the last half-century. As a result, our Commercial Real Estate Group has been nationally recognized as a Tier 1 firm in Real Estate Law by Best Lawyers®.
Our Commercial Real Estate Clients
Our legal counsel, work product and commitment are valued by our clients. We serve:
- Commercial and residential developers
- Real estate and pension funds
- Hedge funds and private equity firms
- Institutional and private investors
- Banks, insurance companies and major financial institutions
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
- International corporations and businesses
- Universities and other educational and non-profit institutions
- Hospitals
- Municipalities and government entities
- Multigenerational families
- Privately-held businesses
Types of Commercial Real Estate Matters
By drawing on the experience of attorneys in our corporate, finance, tax, litigation, bankruptcy and private clients practices, we offer integrated, comprehensive representation on a wide range of matters, including:
- Property acquisitions and sales
- Joint ventures and partnerships
- Mortgages and financings
- Commercial and retail leasing
- Shopping center and retail portfolios
- Multifamily residential and mixed-use developments
- Hotel, resort and hospitality ventures
- Major family estate assemblages
- Construction projects
- Research and laboratory facilities
- Ownership and debt entity structuring
- Franchise properties
- Corporate headquarters projects
- Real estate developments
- Acquisition and exchange offers
- UpREIT and downREIT transactions
- Financial services, trading exchange, hedge fund, private equity and venture capital transactions
- Real estate-related litigation and financing matters
- Real estate tax appeals
Representative Experience
Cummings & Lockwood’s Commercial Real Estate Group served as counsel on numerous transactions during 2023, representing a range of individual clients, companies and developers.
Some of our engagements included the following:
- We represented a national real estate developer in the acquisition and lease-up of a major office complex in downtown Stamford, Connecticut.
- We represented a leading private school in the acquisition of a substantial campus parcel in Greenwich, Connecticut.
We represented a large family office in the renegotiation of its headquarters lease and the early termination of its satellite office location. - We represented an international insurance company in its consolidation of several regional offices into a single headquarters location in downtown Darien, Connecticut.
- We represented a family trust in the restructuring of several ground lease locations in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut.
- We represented an investment syndicate in the net leasing of an entire office building to a private equity firm in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut.
- We represented a national real estate fund in the lease-up of three major office complexes totaling over 1.75 million square feet.
- We represented numerous private equity, hedge fund and venture capital firms in the relocation of their headquarters locations to lower Fairfield County, Connecticut.
- We represented a partner of a major regional real estate company in a complex restructuring of the entire company’s development, leasing, management and investment businesses.
- We represented an international private equity firm in numerous major lease transactions in one of the most substantial office properties in the State of Connecticut.
- We represented a publicly traded manufacturer of electronic and fiber optic connectors and its subsidiaries in multiple national office and industrial leases.
For more information about Cummings & Lockwood’s Commercial Real Estate Group, please visit our website at www.cl-law.com.
