Government Real Property Leasing

Among other matters, we have provided legal advice to help clients efficiently:

• identify government real estate opportunities and complete the preliminary groundwork to compete for them;
• evaluate government solicitations for legal and related economic risks;
• submit winning offers to numerous government agencies;
• obtain non-competitive awards, succeeding leases, and extension leases;
• avoid government “holdover” situations;
• conduct due diligence relating to properties with government tenants;
• purchase and sell properties with government tenants;
• follow up after purchases and sales to get government agency tenants to recognize and pay their new landlords;
• borrow and lend funds partly or wholly to finance government leases and improvements;
• comply with special government lease requirements;
• collect past-due funds from federal agencies and address government non-compliance with lease terms;
• adopt policies and procedures to promote performance, collection of accounts receivable and compliance in government real estate transactions; and
• amend government leases to facilitate construction projects, expansions, space reductions, alterations, addition or subtraction of services, and many other matters.