International Real Estate

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Caroline A. Harcourt

Partner, New York

T: +1.212.858.1529

caroline.harcourt@pillsburylaw.com

David L. Miller

Senior Counsel, Northern Virginia

T: +1.703.770.7925

david.miller@pillsburylaw.com

Andrew J. Weiner

Partner, New York

T: +1.212.858.1034

andrew.weiner@pillsburylaw.com

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Pillsbury’s Real Estate team brings international perspective as key advisers to investors, owners, operators, developers, contractors and lenders worldwide.

Pillsbury real estate lawyers advise on inbound investments into the United States and real estate investments, acquisitions, dispositions and projects around the globe. In addition to representing investors, property owners, landlords and tenants, we also advise and assist both lenders and borrowers regarding financing, loan restructuring and refinancing arrangements. With broad and extensive experience handling property transactions in scores of countries, our lawyers work from offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia, providing counsel in virtually all areas of the law and offering clients in-depth regional experience and global reach. Our real estate lawyers work closely with members of our firm’s other practice areas, such as tax, construction, project finance, litigation, estates, trusts and tax planning, labor and employment, and insolvency, as needed, to advise clients on all aspects of their complex real estate transactions.

Our team includes Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish speakers, enabling us to communicate effectively in our clients’ native languages. Members of our real estate team are admitted to practice in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, as well as other jurisdictions, and have national qualifications in Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.

Representative Experience

Represented an investment group from China in a $360 million acquisition of a 5,000-unit, multifamily real estate project located in Texas and Maryland through multi-tranche CBS debt restructure in prior owner’s bankruptcy case.
Assisted a British ﬁnancial institution in acquiring billions of dollars of oﬃce, retail and other income-producing real estate in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC.
Represented an investment bank in the origination and securitization of over $5.5 billion mortgage and mezzanine loans on fee and ground leaseholds in oﬃce, hotel, mixed-use, industrial and regional mall properties throughout the United States.

Inbound U.S. Investments and Activities
- Structured and negotiated a real estate purchase of the Apple Beats headquarters in Culver City, California, through a China-based investor’s joint venture.
- Represented a China-based property group/China-based investment fund joint venture in its acquisition and redevelopment of an 18-acre parcel in Burlingame, California, for a 760,000-square-foot tech oﬃce park.
- Represented the Saudi Ministry of Finance in the acquisition of a major land parcel in Manhattan for a new 800,000-square-foot mixed-use complex.
- Advised a Canadian developer regarding a bid to develop the consolidated FBI headquarters (a 2.1 million-square-foot project) in the Washington, DC, region.
- Advised a company from Japan in its acquisition of environmentally sensitive properties in four U.S. Gulf Coast states in connection with the settlement of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill liabilities.

Projects Outside of the United States
- Assisted an India-based conglomerate in obtaining ﬁnancing in the U.S. capital markets for the development of numerous townships in India.
- Represented a major U.S. university on the redevelopment of its facility at the University of Oxford.
- Represented a $5.7 billion resort development owner in Singapore International Arbitration Centre proceedings regarding the unauthorized reuse of a proprietary design in a competing 8.8 million-square-foot proposed development elsewhere in Asia.
- Assisted a development company with the scheme documentation for the Pearl Qatar, including lease and sale agreements, master community, and other real estate-related and joint venture documentation.
- Provided guidance to Al Madar LLC in Qatar on developing a commercial tower project in Lusail, Qatar.
- Advised the Government of Qatar on issuing a $4 billion sukuk with prime land as the underlying asset.
- Represented an Iraqi company in the development and ﬁnancing of a $2 billion airport and related infrastructure between Karbala and Najaf in the Republic of Iraq.
- Assisted Alberta Ltd in its purchase of distressed property in Mexico, involving complicated issues with U.S. ﬁnancing, a U.S. owner and a Canadian purchaser with all legal rights operating through a Mexican ﬁdeicomiso.

Practice Area Highlights

Pillsbury’s real estate team and lawyers are recognized by Chambers USA, with clients saying we offer “[t]op-flight client service,” “deep commercial awareness,” “quality of work” and “timeliness of turnaround.”
Pillsbury’s real estate team and its lawyers are repeatedly recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. and praised by clients as “technically excellent,” “efficient, responsive and knowledgeable.”
Pillsbury was ranked among the Top-10 “Leading Real Estate Law Firms” by Commercial Property Executive, a publication that covers the commercial real estate industry’s key trends, issues and concerns.

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