Practice Focus

• Entity formation and tax planning
• Tax abatement
• Preparation and review of deeds and leases
• Eminent domain
• Title examinations and title insurance
• Easements
• Zoning, subdivision and land use permitting
• Title and boundary disputes
• Construction contracts
• Conservation easements
• Condominiums
• Family limited partnerships
• Mortgages and secured financings
• Fractional interest gifting
• Commercial leases
• QPRT's and other real estate aspects of estate planning

Representative Matters

• Achieving favorable settlement of tax abatement cases involving lakefront and commercial properties
• Recovering jury award of over $1,000,000 in an eminent domain case
• Negotiating multi-party construction and development agreement involving automobile dealership and retail site
• Working with conservation organizations to create conservation easements
• Arguing cases before the New Hampshire Supreme Court defending property rights, Lobban v. Greenan, 143 N.H. 18 (1998), and challenging zoning ordinance, Bartlett v. Town of Kingston, 142 N.H. 702 (1998)
• Obtaining municipal variances to allow change in use and expansion of institutional property
• Handling sale of government subsidized multi-unit apartment complexes to municipal housing authority

Business and Industry Sectors Represented

• Title insurers
• Banks and financial institutions
• Hotel industry
• Single-family and multi-unit residential developers
• Shopping center, office, and mixed-use developers
• Franchisors and franchisees
• Condominium developers and condominium associations
• Commercial landlords
• Commercial and industrial tenants
• Hospitals, medical offices, and physicians
• Assisted living and nursing homes
• Utilities and power generators
• Automobile dealerships

Members in this Practice Area