Real Estate & Development
Our real estate attorneys provide prompt innovative and sophisticated counsel to our clients involved in the development, acquisition, sale and investment in real estate – commercial, retail, industrial, recreational, multi-family and single-family. Our experience includes complex real estate projects such as hotels, theaters, industrial parks, multi-use facilities, utilities, governmental and other public facilities.
In addition to conventional commercial and retail leasing and financing – conventional construction and longer-term banking and institutional debt, bond financing, syndications and tax-deferred exchanges – we assist clients in fashioning economic incentive packages and layered financing using local, state, and federal programs such as tax increment financing, enterprise zones, all forms of tax credits, public/private partnerships and “soft” loans.
On a national basis, we have extensive experience in site selection and due diligence procedures including title, survey and environmental work, particularly in connection with the development of hotels and shopping centers.
Whether the project is commercial or residential, multi-family or multi-state, we work closely with developers, investors, lenders, underwriters, governmental authorities and operating businesses in all phases of the real estate project.
For more information, please contact Richard Mersman, or any one of our attorneys practicing in this area.
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Construction Law
Our attorneys working in the area of Construction Law represent general contractors, design builders, construction managers, suppliers, public and private owners, developers, architects and engineers.
We assist our clients throughout the range of construction related issues, on both new construction and historic rehabilitation projects. Our involvement includes drafting, evaluating and negotiating contracts and structuring the resolution of disputes through claims preparation, negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation. We handle disputes arising from small projects to those involving major litigation on large commercial and industrial projects.
Key contact: Dale E Hermeling
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Environmental Law
Our Environmental attorneys represent clients before federal, state and local environmental agencies in a variety of proceedings from permit applications to enforcement actions. Our experience in advising clients in both private and agency-administered site cleanups extends from preliminary investigations through cost recovery, and all stages in between, including cleanups conducted in accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).
We practice in all areas of environmental compliance including clean air, clean water, hazardous and special waste, recycling, sanitary disposal, underground storage tanks, asbestos and lead abatement, storm water, hazard communication, Community Right to Know and spill response. Our experience in dealing with Brownfield projects and security tax credits for remediation is unequaled in St. Louis.
Key contact: Dale E Hermeling
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Land Use
Our attorneys have developed a broad land use development and litigation practice with experience in federal, state, and local laws governing planning and zoning, and permitting in general.
In addition to counseling clients, our attorneys have extensive experience appearing before state and local agencies on a variety of matters and we have an extensive land use litigation practice, including pursuit of inverse condemnation ("takings") claims.
Our land use attorneys work on a wide variety of projects ranging including office buildings, shopping centers, residential subdivisions, landfills, and transit systems.
Key contact: Jay L Levitch
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Municipal Law
The Municipal Law Practice Group provides representation to counties, municipalities, and other governmental bodies involving a variety of matters ranging from land use and development to finance and employment issues to general litigation. Frequently, we are called upon by other law firms to represent their clients in specific matters such as the development of economic incentive programs, land use plans, bond financing, and drafting sophisticated housing assistance programs using both federal and state funds.
In particular, we serve as general counsel to the Treasurer’s Office of the City of St. Louis, the St. Louis Science Center Foundation, the City of St. Louis Mental Health Board, the Botanical Garden subdistrict and the Missouri History Museum subdistrict.
Key contact: Richard Mersman
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