
Attys Tout 3 Real Estate Investment Wins In Federal Budget
Real estate investors can breathe a collective sigh of relief seeing the final version of the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act" that President Donald Trump signed into law this month, as it is largely favorable to the industry and keeps several much-admired tax breaks alive.

Could A Casino Zhuzh Up Coney Island?
Jodi Stein, a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, is advising The Coney, one of eight proposals vying for three New York state licenses to operate a full-fledged casino.

These Firms Worked On The Top First-Half Real Estate Deals
A&O Shearman and Stibbe are among the more than 20 law firms that scored work on the 10 largest global real estate mergers and acquisitions of the first half, a period that saw three transactions above $4 billion.
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Sidley Austin LLP is advising Starwood Property Trust Inc. in its $2.2 billion acquisition of net lease real estate operating platform Fundamental Income Properties LLC, according to an announcement made Wednesday.
A Delaware federal judge has tossed a proposed class action lodged by Chinese investors claiming they were defrauded in a failed EB-5 hotel investment tied to a San Francisco property, finding that the investo... (more story)

Buchalter, Shumaker and Warshaw Burstein are among the law firms that have made recent real estate or construction hires.
Holland & Knight LLP advised the launch of Keelbase Capital, a venture to invest some $550 million in Seattle-area properties that are overleveraged, the real estate investment firm said in a Wednesday announcement.
Rittenhouse Law advised industrial outdoor storage firm Alterra IOS on a $343.6 million loan secured by 64 sites in nearly two dozen states.
A D.C. federal judge has ordered Armenia to pay nearly $439,000 in costs owed to a real estate investor who won annulment in 2023 of an arbitral award nixing his claim against the country for allegedly not doi... (more story)
K&L Gates LLP has brought on an ex-Dechert LLP attorney who specializes in commercial real estate finance as a partner in its Charlotte, North Carolina, office, the firm announced Tuesday.
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A Wells Fargo mortgage borrower has filed a proposed class action against the bank, alleging the bank made an "inadequate" effort to resolve purported mortgage origination fee errors it has vaguely alerted cer... (more story)
The owner of several assisted-living group homes for seniors won a second chance Tuesday to press claims that his Maryland gated community is illegally refusing to let him open a new home there, with the Fourt... (more story)

Nixon Peabody LLP bolstered its affordable housing and real estate practice by hiring an attorney who most recently served on the leadership team for the southwest regional office for the U.S. Department of Ho... (more story)
Real estate investment trust AvalonBay has asked to end the claims against it in the D.C. attorney general's case accusing RealPage of helping more than a dozen building owners inflate rental prices by using i... (more story)
A company that places senior citizens in retirement homes has asked a Georgia federal judge to toss a proposed class action alleging it falsely advertised free services and steered business away from communiti... (more story)
Wells Fargo has told a New York federal court that it need only prove that JPMorgan knew a seller falsified financial data underlying a $481 million commercial mortgage-backed securities loan, not that it was ... (more story)
A Utah federal judge permanently tossed an antitrust suit lodged by a residential brokerage startup against the National Association of Realtors and multiple brokerages, ruling that the claims were time-barred.