Higier Allen & Lautin - Practice Areas


	Higier Allen & Lautin's real estate practice provides full-service legal expertise in a variety of areas related to real property. Our real estate attorneys are highly experienced in the acquisition, disposition, leasing, financing, development, management and operation all types of real property. We regularly work with clients on real estate issues such as land use, entitlements, zoning, platting and permitting. The firm typically works closely with its clients from the formation stages of a project, its financing or possible syndication, development, planning, tax structuring, operation and possible sale or exchange. The firm's experience and familiarity with our clients' individual objectives, styles, and methods of doing business applies itself at all stages of the process, and with respect to all documents, whether purchase and sale agreements, loan documents, construction contracts, option agreements, leases, brokerage agreements, easements and dedications, escrow and title documents, development guidelines, CC&R's, tax-deferred exchanges, the negotiation and closing of the transaction, or the formation and qualification of all necessary partnerships, joint ventures, corporations or other legal entities. Understanding our clients' needs is the foundation of our practice in the entire range of real estate investments and development, whether raw land, office buildings, shopping centers, hotels, apartments, condominiums, warehouse and industrial facilities, residential subdivisions, or golf course development. The firm is continuously involved in large real estate transactions in Texas, regularly representing parties and lenders in multimillion-dollar transactions. We are recognized by our clients for finding creative, pragmatic solutions to the normal and unusual obstacles that typically arise in real estate transactions. Our real estate team is experienced in protecting our clients' interests without losing sight of the ultimate goal: the successful conclusion of the deal at a reasonable cost to the client. We have earned our clients' respect and loyalty through our accessibility and our commitment to meeting our clients' deadlines. We have also been extensively involved in litigation related to commercial real estate transactions, having successfully represented developers, property owners, brokers, lenders and management companies. Our experience in real estate transactions and litigation substantially overlaps with our experience in representing commercial lenders in real estate loan workouts, judicial foreclosures, non-judicial foreclosures and subsequent deficiency actions against obligors and guarantors.