Real Estate

A view of retail development in the United States

Richard R Goldberg

The last twenty years have seen a dramatic shift in retail development in the United States.

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Editorial: Real Estate

This chapter identifies 428 leading practitioners from 34 jurisdictions. Compared with the make-up of the previous edition, it is clear that many firms are expanding their reach, offering clients the benefits of an increasingly international platform.

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Editorial: Real Estate in Florida

Florida boasts a huge real estate market, with new developments in constant demand. Even in the throes of a general market slowdown Florida’s combination of mild climate and natural beauty continues to attract businesses, both domestic and international, interested in buying and developing properties. Twenty-seven practitioners from 12 firms are included here, many of the firms originated in the state and exert a healthy presence in the field.

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Editorial: Real Estate in Singapore

Singapore is witnessing huge developments in its commercial and residential real estate sectors, with a massive influx of foreign investment. Four of the largest acquisitions in Asia were carried out in Singapore and the level of activity shows no signs of slowing.

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Editorial: Real Estate in California

Continuing expansion in the increasingly competitive real estate sector ensures that this is one of the best-represented practice areas in the publication and a key competency for many of the law firms listed on the following pages. The practitioners we list provide advice to clients – tenants, investors and developers – on all aspects of buying, selling, letting, developing and managing real estate. There are 52 practitioners listed on the following pages, from 28 firms across the state of California.

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Editorial: Real Estate in Texas

Continuing expansion in the increasingly competitive real estate sector ensures that this is one of the bestrepresented practice areas in the publication, and a core competency for many of the law firms listed here; many of which have their roots in the state and have grown alongside its cities. Participants “could not say enough good things” about Vinson & Elkins LLP, a Texan big-hitter with “a real estate practice that ranks with the premier firms in the country”.

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Editorial: Real Estate in Georgia

Home to swelling ranks of Fortune 100 companies – with the addition in 2006 of Newell Rubbermaid and the construction of Kia’s new auto assembly plant – Atlanta has long enjoyed a reputation for economic growth and urban development. Its distinctive skyline took shape in the 1970s and 80s, with later renewal coinciding with the 1996 Summer Olympics.

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Editorial: Real Estate in Illinois

Poet Carl Sandburg described Chicago as “City of the big shoulders” – referring to the ingenious high-rise solution to soaring urban real estate premiums in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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