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NY's Tax On 2nd Homes Compounds Residency Tax Risks

New York’s recently enacted surcharge on high-value second homes reflects a nationwide legislative trend of using ... (more story)

Texas Ruling Leaves Key Oil Royalty Question Unresolved

The Texas Supreme Court's recent decision in Fasken Oil and Ranch v. Puig clarifies that royalty reservations cont... (more story)

Justices Widen Path For Confiscated Cuban Property Claims

For Americans holding claims to confiscated Cuban property, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Havana Doc... (more story)

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Ropes & Gray Atty: Tariffs A Rounding Error For Data Centers

Although tariffs are coming up in data center development discussions, their impact is at this point merely a "rounding error" of the total project cost, Ropes & Gray LLP's global real estate leader told Law36... (more story)

Nuveen Closes $37.6M C-PACE Loan For DC Medical Offices

DC Green Bank and Nuveen Green Capital announced Wednesday the closing of $37.6 million in commercial property-assessed clean energy financing, better known as C-PACE, for an outpatient medical and community s... (more story)

Steven Reingold (from left), a partner at Saul Ewing; Andrew Diroll-Black, of American Lending Center; and Ronald Klasko, of Klasko Immigration Law Partners, participate in a panel on litigation at the JTC and Saul Ewing Advanced EB-5 Conference in Miami. (Nathan Hale | Law360)
EB-5 Leaders Talk Sunset Deadlines, Green Card Turmoil

Organizers of an annual conference focused on the EB-5 investment visa program stressed a theme of optimism at the event last week in Miami, but even as the program appears to have overcome many of its own pas... (more story)

Black Creek Founders Launch $250M Light Industrial Venture

A real estate investment platform focused on multitenant light industrial properties launched Wednesday with $250 million in capital from its founders and private lender BTD & MSD Partners.

Crowell Unveils DC Office In Revamped Former Metro HQ

Crowell & Moring LLP has a new home in the nation's capital, with the firm announcing Wednesday it has moved its D.C. office to the redeveloped former Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority headquarters.

4 Firms Steer Yondr's Efforts To Spur Data Center Projects

Hyperscale data center company Yondr Group has obtained a global letter of credit facility and a European holding company facility to support its expansion across Europe and North America, the company announce... (more story)

Cooley Adds 2 More Kirkland Attys To Infrastructure Team

Cooley LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired a pair of Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys who the firm says strengthen its ability to guide clients through the full life cycle of infrastructure investments.

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Fried Frank Guides Kennedy Wilson On $2.3B Residential JV

Fried Frank represented Kennedy Wilson on its €2 billion ($2.3 billion) joint venture with Netherlands pension services provider APG, announced Thursday, that will add more than 3,400 homes across Ireland to K... (more story)

Hagens Berman Sues CFPB For Records On Veteran Lender

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP launched a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in Washington federal court on Tuesday claiming the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wrongfully withheld information about poss... (more story)

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani billed the city’s "Block by Block" plan as one that would guide the creation of 200,000 new affordable housing units over the next decade. (Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA via AP Images)
Akerman Partner Unpacks NYC's Affordable Housing Blueprint

A plan released last week offers the most complete vision yet for how Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to confront New York City’s housing affordability crisis. Nora Martins, a New York land use and zoning partner a... (more story)

Greystone Sets Up $141M Loan For Ariz. Multifamily Tower

Greystone has lined up a $141 million construction loan for a 14-story, 245-unit "ultra-luxury" multifamily tower project in Scottsdale, Arizona, that's being headed by developer The Hampton Group Inc., the co... (more story)

Father-Son Becker Duo Launch Schenck Price HOA Group

Schenck Price Smith & King LLP has unveiled a new community association practice group to be manned by a father-son pair joining as a partner and counsel in New Jersey from Becker & Poliakoff PC.

'Tax 1st, Plan 2nd' School Funding Fee Unlawful, Panel Told

Counsel for two certified classes of residents and homeowners told a North Carolina state appeals court Tuesday that they should be handed a new jury trial, as a county neglected state statute when it extracte... (more story)

Lowndes Launches Homebuilding, Development Team

Florida-based law firm Lowndes has established a new group that focuses on "the transactional and regulatory matters that shape residential development," the firm announced Tuesday.