
These Law Firms Guided The Top First-Half Hospitality Deals
Davis Polk and Haynes Boone are among more than 10 law firms that scored work on the largest hospitality mergers and acquisitions of the first half, with one transaction above the $1 billion mark leading the list.

Zombie Buildings, Conversions And Booming Office CMBS
While office distress hovers at all-time highs, securitized commercial mortgages for trophy office properties are surging, and a spate of New York City office-to-residential conversions are breathing new life into empty buildings.

Nashville Owners Must Face The Music As Tax Burden Surges
Property owners in Nashville are facing greater tax burdens in light of a recent jump in property valuations. Burr & Forman partner John F. Rogers Jr., a veteran real estate attorney in the city, spoke recently with Law360 Real Estate Authority about the market's evolution and how he is advising clients on approaching these latest financial developments.
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Lucky Strike Entertainment acquired 58 sites where it is already operating bowling alleys in a $308 million deal guided by Latham & Watkins LLP and Mayer Brown LLP, which it says will give it financial and ope... (more story)
As elite law firms continue to battle to secure highly profitable legal work in the finance space, an increasing number are adding high-level in-house lawyers to their ranks, marking a departure from historic ... (more story)

Buchalter, Shumaker and Warshaw Burstein are among the law firms that have made recent real estate or construction hires.
A New York state court judge ruled that Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP can't claw back $38 million in rent paid to landlord SL Green Realty during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, finding that a Y2K era rent ... (more story)
Bilt Rewards said it has reached a $10.75 billion valuation after raising $250 million as part of an effort to expand to mortgage-holders its system of offering tenants perks for making rent payments.
The Greenberg Traurig LLP-led Vanbarton Group purchased the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York's headquarters in a $103 million deal, with the aid of $250 million in financing from Eldridge Real Estate Cre... (more story)
A State Farm unit acted in bad faith by unreasonably delaying and denying coverage for a fire that damaged a downtown Denver property more than two years ago, the property owner said in a suit removed to Color... (more story)
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A split Fourth Circuit on Friday tossed the mortgage fraud conviction of former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, finding that the jury was improperly instructed on where the crime occurred, but u... (more story)
When Miami developer Diego Ojeda's firm closed the first-ever cryptocurrency wallet-to-wallet real estate transaction in the Miami market earlier this year, it drew a social media shoutout from one of the city... (more story)

King & Spalding guided Slate Asset Management's $226.5 million purchase of a six-property portfolio of multifamily assets across key Sunbelt markets from ZMR Capital, the alternative investment management platform announced.
A real estate company claims its title insurance company missed an invalid deed on a Philadelphia row house it purchased in 2020, negating years of ownership and investment in the property, according to a laws... (more story)
Brokerage firm Compass Inc. announced Friday that it will conditionally share its exclusive homeowners listings with any brokers or multiple listing services.
A Florida country club operator asked a North Carolina judge to find that it controls a Charlotte-area country club and golf course within a gated community, alleging that a homeowners association has refused ... (more story)
An apartment complex and a contractor told the North Carolina Business Court that a construction company that filed suit, seeking to prove it was jilted by a subcontractor on more than $13 million worth of ele... (more story)