PRACTICE AREAS
KatzDay’s practice is built around the lifecycle of a real estate deal — from initial site control and entity formation through closing, leasing, financing, and disposition. We act as principal counsel on transactions for developers, homebuilders, investors, landlords and tenants, and landowners, and as deal-side counsel to in-house legal teams who need additional Maryland and Mid-Atlantic capacity.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
Our attorneys regularly represent homebuilders, developers, buyers, sellers, equity investors, landlords and tenants in all types of real estate transactions, from negotiating the letter of intent to closing the deal.
Our clients rely on us as essential partners to buy, sell, lease and finance residential communities, retail centers, office buildings, industrial properties, mixed-use and multi-family projects. We routinely provide more than draft documents; we are seasoned dealmakers who use our significant business experience as purchasers, investors, and operators to bring to fruition well-planned, strategic and cost-effective deals.
Our services include:
Counseling on deal structure
Negotiating the letter of intent
Purchase and sale agreements
Ground leases
Due diligence review and advice
Negotiating financing
Easements and licenses
Development agreements
Property management agreements
Coordinating closing
Distressed real estate
Community associations
CORPORATE
Our corporate practice supports real estate transactions and operating businesses across the Mid-Atlantic. We form and maintain holding companies, joint ventures, operating partnerships, and special-purpose entities used in development and investment; counsel principals through buy-ins, separations, and succession; and document the recurring corporate machinery (governance, capital calls, distributions, transfer restrictions) that real estate ownership groups depend on.
We guide our clients through a full range of business needs such as:
Joint ventures
Mergers and acquisitions
Corporate governance
Entity formation and maintenance for corporations, limited companies and partnerships
Executive separation
Capital markets and securities
Financing and capitalization
Succession planning
Shareholder relations
LEASING
We negotiate commercial leases on both the landlord and tenant side for shopping centers, office, flex, warehouse, industrial, and mixed-use projects. Our work runs from initial letter of intent through long-term renewals, amendments, subleases and assignments, work agreements, SNDAs, lease enforcement, and lease restructurings. We routinely paper ground leases for developers ground-leasing land to operating tenants and for tenants taking long-term positions on owned land.
Our services include:
Lease drafting and negotiation
Subleases and assignments
Work agreements
Subordination agreements
Lease enforcement
Renewals and amendments
Lease terminations
Lease work-outs and restructurings
LAND USE
We represent property owners, developers, and homebuilders before county planning departments, planning boards, and zoning hearing officers in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, and surrounding jurisdictions. Our work includes site plan applications, special exceptions and variances, re-zoning petitions, subdivision review, and adequate public facilities compliance. We also conduct zoning due diligence and entitlement reviews for buyers and lenders evaluating projects mid-stream.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
Businesses, property owners and real estate developers facing legislative and regulatory challenges require sound and strategic advice to ensure that their views are heard in the regulatory agencies, county commissions, municipal governments, and state capitals that govern the jurisdictions where they do business. The attorneys in our Government Relations Practice have the experience, discretion, and reputation to ensure that our clients’ views are given appropriate consideration in relevant public policy debates.
FINANCE
Our attorneys have extensive experience representing every type of borrower and lender in all facets of real estate finance at every level of the capital stack. When our clients face difficult issues that have the potential to derail a loan transaction from closing, we understand it is not enough to simply identify issues. We proactively solve challenges by offering our clients pragmatic solutions to their business and legal issues.
Our expertise extends to the following areas of finance:
Acquisition
Construction
Mortgage
Mezzanine
Bridge
Multi-Property