
Overview of Real Estate Transactions
Class Content
Overview
This course is designed to introduce students to real estate transactions. The course starts by defining real estate transactions in general and identifying the parties involved. It then describes the different types of real estate transactions and identifies the key documents in each. Finally, the course identifies the essential roles attorneys play in real estate transactions and the remedies available to the parties when there is a problem with a real estate transaction.
Level: Basic-Foundational
This class is suitable for attorneys who have a general interest in, or are exposed to, real estate transactions but do not have extensive practical experience.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify the various types and structures of real estate transactions
- Understand the various parties involved in a real estate transaction and the respective concerns of the parties involved
- Recognize the types of documents and terminology used in real estate transactions
- Understand the role of the attorney in various real estate transactions
- Review and summarize a letter of intent
Key Topics:
- Introduction
- What is a real estate transaction?
- What are the primary motivations for clients to engage in real estate transactions?
- Who are the typical parties involved in real estate transactions?
- Who are the typical clients in real estate transactions?
- Most common types of real estate transactions
- Difference between Residential and Commercial
- Purchase and sale
- Lease
- Loan
- Construction
- Pre-development and Development
- Documents generally involved in real estate transactions
- Term Sheets/LOIs
- Purchase and sale documents
- Lease documents
- Loan documents
- Types of documents in other real estate transactions
- Construction agreement
- Pre-development and development agreements
- The roles of an attorney in the different real estate transactions
- Importance of real estate attorneys
- Role of the Buyer’s and the Seller’s counsel in a purchase and sale transaction
- Role of the Landlord’s and the Tenant’s counsel in a leasing transaction
- Role of the Lender’s and the Borrower’s counsel in a lending transaction
- Other situations where counsel may represent a real estate client
- What happens when real estate transactions go wrong?
- Short sales
- Forbearance
- Workouts
- Unexpected discoveries during due diligence
Supplemental Materials/Additional Resources:
- Sample purchase and sale agreement
- Sample special warranty deed
- Sample lease agreement
- Sample loan agreement
- Sample financial term sheet for retail purchase
- Sample closing binder index
- Sample due diligence checklist
Simulation Exercise
CLE Credit
Preview
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Instructors Who Practice What They Teach
Adriel Sanders
x-Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
David Case
x-White & Case; x-Orrick
Doug Young
x-Baker McKenzie; x-White & Case
Aaron Melville
Global Head of Tech Transactions, Uber; x-Disney; x-O’Melveny; x-Weil Gotshal
Chris Drews
x-Disney
Julie Ryan
Head of Experiential Learning, AltaClaro; x-Akin Gump; x-Clifford Chance
Mick Galvin
x-Sidley; x-Allen & Overy
Stephen Kaplitt
x-Weil Gotshal; x-Cadwalader
Clara Duffield
x-Baker McKenzie
Mike Shea
x-Baker McKenzie, x-Morrison & Foerster
John Babcock
Partner, Waldrep Wall
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