Acquisition of Exchange Property for Transaction No. 11

We represented Grosvenor in the acquisition of exchange replacement properties for the sale of the Valley River Center. The exchange properties included 1944 Union Street, San Francisco (Perry’s site); Westgate West Shopping Center, San Jose; Los Gatos Village Square, a neighborhood shopping center; and 830 North Michigan retail center, Chicago, Illinois. We prepared and negotiated … 더 읽기

Bank Leases

The following is a list of representative leases with banks we have negotiated for various landlords, including Grosvenor, Tishman Speyer, and The Lurie Company: US Bank, San Mateo Citibank, 451 Montgomery Street, San Francisco Bank of America Branches, San Francisco (The Lurie Company, Landlord) Bank of San Francisco, 500 Montgomery Street, San Francisco American Californian … 더 읽기

Debt Restructure and Sale of Burger King Restaurants

We recently represented the nation’s second largest Burger King franchisee in a pre-packaged bankruptcy sale of its 230 restaurants located in several different states. In conjunction with that transaction, we represented the ground lessors of roughly half of those restaurants in the renegotiation of their existing mortgage debt, the refinancing of that debt, and the … 더 읽기

Equity Office Properties Trust

On behalf of EOP, we acted as its counsel in the disposition of 25 suburban office properties in Northern California for $500 million to a joint venture of RREEF Funds and CalPERS. The transaction was completed in two phases. The second phase included EOP’s acquisition, by an IRC §1031 exchange, of two shopping center properties … 더 읽기

General Analysis of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The Act, signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009 includes significant changes to various provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). This memorandum summarizes these changes, highlighting those provisions of relevance to investors and businesses. Except as otherwise noted, the tax provisions of the Act are retroactive to … 더 읽기

GRMSH attorneys Laird Steverango and Mark Hennigh represented RES Canada in the negotiation and closing of the 99 MW Talbot Wind Farm located in Ontario Canada.

CALGARY, ALBERTA AND MONTREAL, QUEBEC–(Marketwire – Nov. 19, 2009) – Enbridge Inc (TSX:ENB) (NYSE:ENB) and Renewable Energy Systems Canada Inc. (RES Canada) an affiliate of RES Americas, announced today that they have entered into an agreement to develop a 99 megawatt (MW) wind energy project near Chatham, Ontario in which Enbridge will have a majority … 더 읽기

Increased Penalties Possible Under the 2014 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program

The Internal Revenue Code requires U.S. citizens and permanent residents to report worldwide income, foreign bank accounts and foreign financial assets regardless of where they are located. This is not a new requirement, yet many U.S. persons have historically failed to satisfy these reporting requirements. To address this problem, since 2012, the IRS has allowed … 더 읽기

Land Conservation Project In Chile

Working together with counsel in Santiago, Chile over a period of almost 30 years, we have assisted Tompkins Conservation (formaly known as The Conservation Land Trust) and its principal sponsors the late Douglas R. Tompkins, the co-founder of the Esprit clothing company, and his wife Kristine McDivitt Tompkins in the acquisition of over 2,000,000 acres of pristine wilderness in South … 더 읽기