Shopping Centers & Retail

Sonnenschein has long been the preferred law firm in the representation of  some of the leading players in the shopping center industry, with particular expertise in the representation of high fashion retail tenants.  Our Shopping Center & Retail group is highly knowledgeable about the legal and business issues impacting the industry, which allows us to provide effective counsel in connection with the acquisition and disposition of shopping centers, management, leasing and every conceivable type of financing arrangement, including construction lending, permanent lending, mezzanine lending, leveraged leases, and secured and unsecured financing to private equity funds and REITS. 

We routinely represent developers and REITS, as well as financial investors, in a wide variety of joint venture transactions.  We also represent national chain stores in leasing and acquisitions and dispositions of their store locations. 

Our lawyers are in the forefront of the “New Urbanism” movement sweeping the industry, having represented developers in many of the most critically acclaimed mixed use, urban-style town centers all over the country.  In addition, we have extensive transactional experience, representing developers as well as economic development  agencies in devising and implementing development incentives and public-private initiatives for new development and redevelopment of urban areas.