Business and Real Estate Transactions

Think of us as a trusted business partner whose experience and know-how helps you close deals, build and grow, form alliances, extend your business, and save you money.  

More specifically, our transactional attorneys can represent you in buying or selling businesses, commercial real estate, or other assets; in forming corporations, partnerships, and joint ventures domestically and internationally; and in developing effective franchising networks. Business and real estate transactions are a passion for us. We are especially focused on Florida real estate transactions and Florida condominium laws.

We save you time and money because we’ve done it all before and know all the angles, from taxes to capital sources.  We also know business inside and out, with a number of attorneys who have served as general or associate counsel for large companies.  So we don’t spin our wheels or head up blind alleys while the clock’s running.

And we’re creative.  Our combination of legal expertise and business insight inspires our clients to involve us in every stage of their business or real estate transactions, including:

• clarifying the business purpose(s) to be accomplished by the transaction;
   
• proposing transaction structure alternatives to best achieve the business purpose;
   
• evaluating the impact of tax issues on the various structural alternatives;
   
• creating legal entities designed to bring about the optimal alternative;
   
• sourcing capital to facilitate the transaction; and,
   
• documenting the respective rights and obligations of the parties to the transaction.

In addition, for industries where franchising ranks as an important component of operational and financial strategies, Kluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin delivers seasoned know-how on the numerous issues in successful franchising.

For investors, developers or lenders dealing with the effects of distressed real estate, our real estate transaction attorneys along with bankruptcy attorneys and litigators have formed the Distressed Asset Group to address related legal and business issues. We represent clients dealing with condominium development and conversion issues, buying and selling businesses, commercial real estate, and other assets. Our real estate transaction attorneys help structure the transactions and entities, including borrowing and lending to complete the deal.

For more on Kluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin's business and real estate transaction practice, contact practice group chair, Eliot Abbott. 305-379-9000.

Case Studies

• Creative Solution for Contaminated Site Allows Shopping Center Construction
  A developer along with KPKB attorneys find a novel way to close a deal: bury the site under a layer of dirt.
• Rescuing a Family Heirloom on the Miami River
  Keeping the former site of the East Coast Fisheries and restaurant in the family, preserving the original fishery building, and bringing back vibrancy to a narrow strip of the NW Miami River bank was developer client Peter Schwartz’s dream.