The Real Estate practitioners at Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan, P.C. offer lenders, owners, developers, contractors, buyers and tenants valuable experience for a wide range of legal needs associated with real estate acquisition, ownership, development, disposition and financing.
The firm’s Real Estate practitioners have earned reputations for creativity, responsiveness, efficiency and sound judgment in their decades of real estate practice. Collaborative by nature, Capes Sokol’s real estate professionals have a passion for helping clients make the best possible decisions to achieve their goals by connecting to a network of the best and brightest professionals, both within and outside the firm.
Clients seek our swift, objective analysis and advice for a variety of legal matters associated with real estate, including:
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Build-to-suit leases
- Commercial and industrial real estate leases
- Commercial lending and real estate loans
- Construction and design contracts
- Construction dispute resolution
- Landlord/tenant dispute resolution
- Insurance
- Land use and zoning
- Mechanic’s liens
- Real estate development
- Review of settlement statements and preparation of closing instructions
- Easements and licenses, conditional use permits and building permits
- Board of Public Service and Board of Adjustment proceedings for conditional use permits and zoning variances
- Advice regarding public subsidies, including tax increment financing and new market tax credits
- Disbursing agreements
Whether our clients are individuals, lending institutions, for profit or nonprofit companies, large or small, our team of seasoned professionals strives always to provide our clients with clear and compelling advice to inform their real estate decisions. Capes Sokol’s Real Estate group attorneys are active volunteers in such organizations as the Urban Land Institute and the Construction Law Committee of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL). Team members also share their knowledge within the community, such as by serving on the Grace Hill Facilities Advisory Committee.
Clients’ award-winning developments and contributions to economic development attest to the wisdom and value of the counsel received from the professionals in Capes Sokol’s Real Estate group, including:
Attorneys
Laura E. Krebs Al-Shathir
Jeffrey A. Cohen
Drey A. Cooley
Douglas S. Dove
Mark E. Goodman
S. Todd Hamby
Sarah J. Luem
John S. Meyer, Jr., Practice Group Chair
Brian J. Sabin
Gary R. Sarachan
Michelle Feit Schwerin
Callie J. Tucker
Andrew H. Westbrook
Paralegals
Barbara A. Cavicchia
Robin L. Steiner