Real Estate
Real estate is an integral part of our lives and livelihoods. With diverse experience across multiple legal fields and industries, MBK attorneys have gained a panoramic view of the risks and opportunities that real estate holds.
MBK real estate attorneys work closely with local and national companies, nonprofits, developers, investors, trusts, and high-net-worth individuals to provide experienced advice and innovative solutions on real estate transactional, regulatory, tax, and litigation matters. We provide significant real estate support and services to the energy industry, an increasingly important sector in the economy of our region and nation.
Our real estate team brings together lawyers with an expansive and diverse skill set gained from years of industry experience, including former in-house counsel to a Fortune 500 company, and decades advising clients across the spectrum of real estate, energy, tax, business, and litigation. Our broad experience enables us to provide comprehensive advice that integrates all of the relevant legal and practical concerns in a real estate transaction or dispute and is not limited to theoretical legal analysis.
As counsel to individual and corporate clients across multiple industries, the real estate attorneys at MBK handle all aspects of commercial real estate including:
- Acquisition and disposition
- Acquisition-related financing
- Real estate investment structures
- Real estate financing workouts
- Construction and development
- Construction financing
- Commercial leasing
- Easements, rights-of-way, and licenses
- Title and quiet title issues
- Zoning and land use
- Eminent domain
- Environmental regulation
- Property tax assessment appeals
- Commercial tax appeals
- Tax structuring for real estate
- Tax abatement and exemptions
- “Purely Public Charity” exemptions for nonprofits / Public Charity Act 55
- Real estate disputes and litigation
MBK has established close client relationships with significant stakeholders in the energy industry in the Marcellus Shale region, and provides operational, transactional, and litigation support in their real estate affairs. We advise our energy clients on general real estate matters as well as concerns uniquely important to the energy industry including:
- Oil and gas leases
- Pipeline right-of-way and easement agreements
- Surface use agreements
- Road use and road sharing agreements
- Encroachment and crossing agreements
- Assignments and partial assignments
- Subordination, Non-Disturbance, and Attornment agreements
- Property leases
- Ground leases
- Option agreements
- Quiet title actions
- Zoning and land use matters
- Real estate and land use due diligence
- Title and property disputes
Disputes arise in any industry, and real estate is no exception. Our real estate and litigation lawyers collaborate closely on disputes that focus on real estate. With our client’s objectives paramount, we seek just and cost-effective resolution of controversies through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and, if necessary, litigation. We advocate passionately for our clients whether in negotiations, dispute resolution, or before local, state and/or federal bodies and courts.