The lawyers at Kruger Carson have a high level of proficiency and years of experience in many areas of transactional law, providing us with the legal and business knowledge necessary to protect and advance the interests of our clients. Those areas include:
Real Estate Development
We represent individual and institutional developers, investors, and end-users in a wide variety of sophisticated commercial development projects. These include ground-up, in-fill, and adaptive reuse projects, both in urban and suburban environments; ranging from regional and local shopping centers, convenience stores, hotels, office buildings, and industrial centers to master planned, mixed-use developments. We have considerable experience with drafting and negotiating all types of site development agreements, incentive agreements, declarations, restrictive covenants, easements, and other agreements related to the development of real estate.
Acquisitions and Dispositions
We are regularly involved in the purchase and sale of commercial real estate, including the purchase and sale of large and complex development tracts, shopping centers, major office buildings, and multifamily portfolios. Our clients rely on our advice through all stages of a deal, from letters of intent and the drafting and negotiation of purchase and sale agreements, through due diligence, to the closing of real estate transactions. At all stages, we excel at helping the client to get the deal done while protecting our client’s interests.
Formation of Business Entities
We advise our real estate and corporate clients in the formation and restructuring of corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, joint ventures, and other business entities, and helping them select the type of entity that best serves their needs. We regularly assist clients with drafting and negotiating all types of corporate governance documents, partnership agreements, limited liability company agreements, and shareholder agreements.
Joint Ventures and Equity Capitalization
The firm has extensive experience advising both service and capital providers in real estate joint ventures. We advise start-up and established clients in connection with the negotiation and drafting of joint venture agreements and other operating agreements. On an on-going basis, we assist clients with structuring capital in real estate transactions of all types.
Leasing
We represent both commercial landlords and tenants in the drafting and negotiation of all types of leases, including ground leases, office leases, retail leases, industrial leases, build-to-suit leases, and leases for mixed-use developments. Our lawyers have collectively leased millions of square feet of real estate all across Texas, across all asset classes. We have extensive experience negotiating complex leases, from both the landlord and tenant perspective, for large national and regional users of real estate, ranging from retail anchors to medical and tech companies.
Finance
We represent a wide array of lenders and borrowers in traditional construction and term loans, as well as distressed and bridge-loan transactions.
Renewable Energy
We represent utility-scale wind, biomass, and solar power project developers in all real property-related aspects of project development and financing; including site acquisition, tax abatement negotiations, power purchase agreements, and transmission easements.
Mining
We represent a number of large and small mining companies, as well as individuals who have leased their property for mining, in Texas and throughout the country.
Rail Transportation
Our lawyers were involved with the first unit train shipments in Texas and since then have continually assisted clients with rail matters, including the creation of rail distribution centers.
Business Transactions
We counsel business clients with stock and asset sales and assist corporate-oriented clients with real estate-related aspects of mergers, acquisitions, stock, and asset transactions.