Covington’s Real Estate practice offers a full range of transactional and advisory services. Our practice ranges from the structuring and implementation of complex acquisitions, developments, financings, and dispositions to counseling Fortune 500 corporations, trade associations, law firms, not-for-profit organizations, developers and individual owners of commercial and residential property.
Our real estate attorneys regularly represent clients in all aspects of their acquisition and development projects, commercial leasing activities, financing transactions, construction, and litigation matters. We have substantial experience representing owners with respect to the negotiation of their development, design, construction and project management documents for their facilities and other capital improvement projects. We also structure and implement the real estate components of multi-faceted corporate transactions, as well as advise on matters involving potential environmental liabilities, or tax, or insolvency matters for our clients.
Covington represents hundreds of corporations and not-for-profit, governmental, and quasi-governmental instrumentalities, mostly in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Our clients include developers, investors, asset managers, landlords, tenants, property managers, estates, foundations, schools, and individuals.
Of particular significance is our experience representing parties to public/private development ventures, commercial leasing, and not-for-profit organizations in the acquisitions or development of headquarters facilities.
Representative Matters
- Union Station Redevelopment Corporation. Act as outside general counsel to this non-profit corporation whose Board consists of the Secretary of Transportation, the Federal Railroad Administrator, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, the President of Amtrak, and the President of the Federal City Council, advising USRC on all aspects of the redevelopment of the District of Columbia's Union Station into an award-winning mixed-use transportation facility.
- Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation. Act as outside general counsel and advise the Foundation on continuous work on more than $60 million worth of design, project management, and construction contracts for Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, constituting major capital improvement projects on the Cathedral close, including recently the Cathedral’s structured parking facility, the renovation of Beauvoir School, and reconstruction of the Centennial Hall classroom building.
- District of Columbia Sports and Entertainment Commission. Act as principal outside counsel with extensive involvement in the acquisition, development and leasing of the Washington Nationals new baseball stadium project in the Anacostia waterfront area, as well as the refurbishment of RFK Stadium.
- GOJO Industries, Inc. Frequently represent the company in complex matters, including the design and reconstruction of the 260,000 square foot former B.F. Goodrich World Headquarters in Akron, Ohio, as GOJO’s headquarters, and other construction and development projects. The design contract was a collaboration among four design firms.
Accolades
- The firm was recommended in the category of “Real Estate-District of Columbia: Transactions and Finance by the Legal 500 US 2007 along with Robert Gage.
- Washington Business Journal, Top Washington Lawyer for Real Estate Transactions, Robert Gage, Finalist (2007)
- Covington’s Real Estate group is recognized as a leading Washington, DC practice by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2006-2007.
- Robert Gage is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Real Estate (2007).
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