Clarion Partners, the real estate arm of investment manager Franklin Templeton, said Tuesday that it agreed to buy a majority stake in Stoneshield Capital, a European firm with $9 billion in assets under management.

Lippes Mathias and Fried Frank are among the law firms that helped with the largest New York City real estate deals made public last week, with a $50 million Manhattan hotel trade leading the way.

Data center developers may be able to bypass time-consuming rezoning processes when building in remote areas, but that doesn't mean their projects will be free of legal and logistical complications, attorneys said.

EverBank Financial Corp. and WaFd Inc. have agreed to combine through a $3.9 billion reverse merger, in a deal steered by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. 

The Ohio Supreme Court will allow the residents of Trenton, Ohio, to vote in a special election for a proposed city charter amendment that will ban the construction of data centers in the city, which is simila... (more story)

The Washington Attorney General's Office has asked the state's Utilities and Transportation Commission to reject Pacific Power and Light Co.'s $1.9 billion sale of its Washington service area to Portland Gener... (more story)

A commercial lender asked a Colorado state judge Thursday to issue an ex parte appointment of a receiver over a Denver property, saying the borrower defaulted on a $170 million commercial mortgage loan.

The federal government wants to settle its antitrust claims against Cushman & Wakefield unit Pinnacle Property Management Services LLC, which was accused in North Carolina federal court of using property manag... (more story)

A New South Wales Supreme Court judge has appointed a contradictor to weigh in on the split of a tentative $18 million settlement in a class action over homes damaged by land subsidence, after raising concerns... (more story)

American Healthcare REIT Inc. has paid $572 million to Kensington Senior Living for six luxury senior housing communities that have 464 units in total, the clinical healthcare-focused real estate investment trust announced.

Fintech company Figure Lending LLC has escaped a consumer's proposed class action over the alleged false marketing of its loans, with a federal judge ruling the plaintiff did not show the North Carolina court ... (more story)

A proposed class of tenants at a Manhattan skyscraper accused Blackstone Inc.'s BREIT Operating Partnership LP of overcharging for their rent-stabilized apartments and not properly registering them with the Ne... (more story)

Two Roads Development has reached a deal to resolve closely watched litigation brought by a group of holdout unit owners over the firm's bid to redevelop a waterfront condominium tower in Miami.

A lawsuit brought by Los Angeles County officials over allegations that insurance giant State Farm shortchanged property owners following devastating fires has the insurance industry on alert.