Real Estate

Through our real estate practice, Scholz Nonprofit Law assists nonprofits, businesses, and funding sources — including banks, private investors, and governments — to develop, finance, purchase, and sell real estate.

Our experience includes:

  • Helping clients finance, develop, purchase and sell residential, commercial, and industrial real estate;
  • Serving as borrower counsel, underwriter counsel, issuer counsel, and bank counsel on numerous municipal and conduit bond issues;
  • Working with lenders, non-profit sponsors, developers, and investors on tax credit financings;
  • Representing lenders and large borrowers on sophisticated commercial lending projects;
  • Assisting developers with land acquisition, annexation, and zoning issues, with subdivision, mixed-use development and financing issues;
  • Negotiating and drafting development agreements, leases, condominium declarations, and master condominium documents for large mixed-use developments;
  • Assisting clients with long-term strategic plans for mixed-use of real estate in urban core and adjacent suburban areas; and,
  • Advising on day-to-day operation of a large hospitality company, including real estate acquisitions and sales, real estate development and property management, hotel management, supply agreements and securities/corporate governance issues.

See also Operations and Business Transactions and Employment.

HIGHLIGHT:
Livesey Corporation

Jeff helped Livesey Company, a for-profit developer, finance the development of the Spectrum Brands building in Middleton with tax exempt bonds.

HIGHLIGHT:
Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development

Jeff assists the Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development with creation of affordable housing, utilizing the low-income housing tax credits and other public and private financing programs.