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Building sound solutions. When it comes to commercial and investment real estate properties, even the most sophisticated property owners and space users face complicated transactional issues. Barrie knows how to clarify these complexities, uncovering all potential issues and devising sound solutions tailored to meet your specific needs. 

With a 30+ year track record of representing clients who are buying, selling, leasing, exchanging, developing, and financing commercial and high-end investment properties, Barrie has negotiated purchases, leases, and construction and other contracts for shopping centers, restaurants, industrial properties, warehouses, distribution space and office buildings. 

Every real estate deal comes with its own legal, tax, business or estate issues. Barrie’s goal is to see that your transactions set a firm foundation for your future business and financial growth. 
Practical Experience
Leasing
  • Closed leasing deals in Florida, Vermont, Nebraska and Colorado for a sophisticated, early-stage company new to real estate transactions.
  • Negotiated a 40,000-square-foot, multi-story, long-term office lease with build-out in Sacramento on behalf of a health insurance company.

Financing
  • Structured and closed a sale by the foreclosing lender of a distressed $12 million affordable housing project in Oakland.
  • Negotiated a ground lease of agricultural land with a Japanese corporation for a family business owner.
  • Amended and restated a mortgage for a private lender to cure defaults and restore income streams on a gold mining property in Montana.

Acquisition and Disposition of Investment Real Estate
  • Represented the buyer of industrial warehouse properties in a $9 million transaction in Nevada, financed by a national insurance company lender.
  • Represented the seller of a shopping center with environmental remediation issues and defeasance of a conduit loan.
  • Cleared regulatory hurdles obstructing the sale of a $20 million marina and housing development

Property Development
  • Using historic metes and bounds descriptions, showed that boundary lines for a triangle of land between a Northern California river and adjoining creek, which appeared to have no owner, were improperly drawn, and successfully established proper ownership of the parcel in a court case.
  • Helped clients acquire vineyards and avocado and olive groves in Sonoma, Santa Clara, and San Benito County, and orange groves and gladiola farms in Florida.

Construction Contracts
  • Worked with clients on build-outs of developments in commercial and office properties, including a $15 million hotel in Missouri and shopping centers in Arizona and California.
  • Negotiated numerous tenant improvement contracts for office and retail space nationwide, including negotiations with architects, general contractors and construction managers.



 
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Case Study:
Shopping Center Owner
/Tenant Negotiation

"Barrie helped us untangle a
morass of inherited properties. It was a pleasure to work with someone so experienced with the issues we faced." ...Toni  C., San Jose, CA