Waller Lansden's real estate practice is national in scope and includes both real estate developers as well as corporate clients in a wide range of industries. Our real estate attorneys represent owners, operators, agents and developers of commercial, industrial, retail and residential properties. Our corporate real estate clients include companies that own, lease and develop real estate assets for their own use, such as public and private healthcare companies, shopping center owner-operators, hospital and physician management companies, restaurant chains, private real estate developers, common carrier trucking companies, wireless telecommunications companies and a National Football League franchise. In addition, we regularly represent investors in commercial and industrial real estate projects, including REITs, pension fund group trusts and real estate investment advisors for public and private trusts.
Several of our clients with operations or properties throughout the United States have selected Waller Lansden as their primary source for real estate legal services nationwide. As national real estate counsel, Waller Lansden ensures the uniform and consistent application of our clients' corporate business standards and practices with an approach that is both efficient and cost-effective.
Our real estate attorneys have in-depth experience with the acquisition, lease, development and disposition of multi-tenant office buildings, medical office buildings, hotels and shopping centers, as well as manufacturing facilities, hospitals, telecommunications facilities, apartments and unimproved parcels. With the design, construction and development of new projects, we frequently assist development clients from concept through completion. Our attorneys review, prepare and negotiate architectural design and construction contracts and assist clients in the preparation and negotiation of property management agreements. Waller Lansden represents a developer of urban and suburban lifestyle centers as well as a developer of urban residential condominiums in high rise towers. We also represent a third party supply chain logistics operator in the development and leasing of industrial projects as well as a industrial real estate investment trust.
We routinely represent borrowers in the negotiation and documentation of sophisticated real estate development financing arrangements, including multi-state mortgage financings, interim and permanent mortgage loans and securitized and non-securitized sale and lease-back transactions. In addition, several of our attorneys have extensive experience in the representation of banks and other lending institutions in connection with commercial real estate secured financing transactions. Waller Lansden regularly represents financial institutions in the negotiation, documentation and closing of financings secured by real estate in connection with multi-family housing projects, medical office building projects, religious institutions, assisted-living facilities, and shopping center developments.
We have extensive experience in all facets of commercial leasing and a significant portion of our real estate practice involves lease preparation, review and negotiation for both landlords and tenants. Waller Lansden frequently represents owners in commercial financing transactions involving loans conforming to FNMA and FHLMC requirements, and in developing and converting residential and commercial condominium projects throughout the United States. We have substantial experience in large scale residential and mixed-use developments which require sophisticated covenants and restrictions. Additionally, our real estate and environmental attorneys together have assisted numerous clients with the development of environmentally sensitive properties containing streams, wetlands and wet-weather conveyances.
Waller Lansden serves as agent for most of the major title insurance underwriters. For properties located in Tennessee, we provide direct title insurance services on an economical basis. In addition, through national account arrangements, we can secure title insurance in other states on a basis often more favorable than can be secured locally.
