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Buchalter
Legal and advisory powerhouse, delivering sophisticated real estate counsel and transaction solutions to clients across the United States for over 80 years.

The Challenge Real Estate Clients Face

Navigating the complex real estate landscape requires expert guidance to structure deals, manage regulatory requirements, and mitigate risk—whether handling acquisitions, financings, development, leasing, or disposition of real property assets.

Our Approach

Buchalter’s dedicated Real Estate Practice Group brings together deep knowledge, business-minded problem solving, and a collaborative spirit. Our attorneys handle the full transaction lifecycle—including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, entitlements, development, leasing, financing, tax structuring, and compliance—serving owners, developers, investors, lenders, and tenants from coast to coast.

Core Services

• Transactional real estate counsel
• Acquisition, disposition, and due diligence
• Commercial leasing and finance
• Development and land use solutions
• Construction, tax, and compliance advisory
• Litigation and dispute resolution
• Joint ventures and real estate syndications

Proven Results

Buchalter is repeatedly ranked among America’s top law firms, representing commercial and residential leaders, REITs, funds, municipalities, family offices, and developers across all asset classes. Our real estate team is trusted for client advocacy, risk mitigation, and strategic guidance on complex, high-value transactions nationwide.

Why Clients Choose Buchalter

Clients value Buchalter’s multidisciplinary capabilities, industry leadership, and responsiveness—pairing legal depth with a business approach to anticipate challenges and deliver efficient, practical solutions for every phase of a real estate transaction or dispute.

Core Competencies

• Real estate transactions and development
• Commercial leasing
• Finance and secured lending
• Tax and 1031 exchanges
• Environmental and land use law
• Litigation and dispute resolution
• Joint ventures and partnerships

About Buchalter

Founded in 1933, Buchalter is an AmLaw 150 firm with offices across major U.S. markets. Our Real Estate Practice Group reflects the full capability of the firm—combining industry experience, subject matter depth, and a relentless drive to add value for developers, corporations, institutional owners, and investors.

Philosophy

Buchalter is rooted in a philosophy of close partnership, strategic counsel, and practical solutions—empowering clients to move confidently through today’s changing real estate climate.

Ready for Trusted Real Estate Counsel?

Contact Buchalter’s leading real estate attorney, Kymn Harp, for actionable legal strategy and business-oriented real estate solutions.
Email: kharp@buchalter.com
Phone: (312) 525-2073
Website: buchalter.com

About Us

Buchalter is a full-service business law firm that has been teaming with clients for nine decades, providing legal counsel at all stages of their growth and evolution, and helping them meet the many legal challenges and decisions they face. Our clients are engaged in a diverse global economy governed by complex laws and regulations, and they trust us as advisers and business partners because we are involved in their world. They rely on our forward-thinking to help them resolve problems before they arise.

Our founding principle—providing our clients with the best business solutions—continues to lead us. We value each client relationship, recognizing that their success is our success. Our overarching goal— getting the best results for the client in a timely manner with sensitivity to cost—has engendered client loyalty, and the firm has grown from that loyalty.

Technology & Innovation

Our lawyers are accessible, resourceful, skillful, and adept at responding to change. Our technological capabilities keep case law and rule changes at our fingertips and client communications current, enabling us to create efficient, superior outcomes.

We strongly believe that technology is a tool that furthers the practice of law and have used that belief to develop a cutting-edge platform for our firm. We use a meshed (NVPN) network to facilitate work among offices, Cisco VoIP telephony, and Video-over-IP conferencing. Sharing documents is seamless through FileSite, which is also utilized to create our Client Extranets. To support our litigation matters, we use Relativity and RelOne as well as Everchron, Case Notebook, and Trial Director. Unlike many firms, we have the capacity to process end-to-end eDiscovery in-house, reducing client costs.

Community Involvement

Buchalter lawyers are also active members of the communities in which they live and work. Leadership is a value the founding partners practiced and passed on to the current generation of attorneys. Our lawyers sit on the boards of prominent organizations, teach and lecture frequently. We actively participate in many associations and groups including the Public Law Center, San Francisco Legal Aid Society, Practicing Law Institute, California State Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the LACBA Domestic Violence Project, the Sojourner Center, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Phoenix, and many others.

Recognition & Awards

Buchalter is consistently ranked among the leading law firms by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, The Daily Journal, and the Los Angeles Business Journal. It is also ranked among the leading firms nationally by American Legal Media and the National Law Journal.

Commitment to Diversity

Buchalter’s commitment to reflecting and enhancing the rich diversity of the clients and communities in which we practice is more than nine decades strong. The firm’s diversity of attorneys and staff provides clients with a greater array of creative talent and alternative thinking, benefiting all.

Real Estate Practice

Real Estate Lawyers in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group represent lenders, national and regional banks, opportunity funds, and borrowers in connection with real estate financings, construction loans, equity investments, syndicated investments, portfolio and syndicated credit facilities, tax credit transactions, and municipal finance.

The firm’s real estate work involves all types of real estate projects—office, hotel, multifamily, and industrial. The firm also represents both purchasers and sellers in connection with real estate acquisitions and dispositions, and both landlords and tenants in connection with commercial leases. Real Estate Practice Group clients include national and regional institutions as well as entrepreneurial and middle-market clients who rely on the quality and cost-effectiveness of the firm’s legal services.