Hotels And Landlords Get Set For FIFA World Cup
With the FIFA Men's World Cup beginning in less than three months, hotels and real estate owners have for years been laying the groundwork to make the most of the expected burst of economic activity, despite more recent concerns over immigration policies and geopolitical turmoil.
Fla. Startup's AI Tool Helps Local Governments Handle Growth
With its efforts to tap into artificial intelligence to automate portions of its permitting reviews, Florida's Walton County thinks it has found a way to achieve tangible benefits for a community grappling with the strains of rapid growth.
Real Estate Private Credit's Moment To Shine
Even under scrutiny prompted by problems in corporate private credit, the real estate corner of private credit is holding up. Although both forms of debt are under the heading of private credit, attorneys that advise private credit borrowers, lenders and investors do not expect real estate private credit to get blowback from the corporate private credit world.
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Data center builder Firmus is anticipating a $505 million investment from technology investor Coatue and technology company NVIDIA for the funding of its AI projects in Australia, Firmus has announced.
California resort developer SilverRock Development Co. LLC received approval Tuesday from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to send its proposed Chapter 11 plan out for a creditor vote after lengthy mediation effort... (more story)
Litigation challenging zoning and other approvals for data center projects alleging violations of sunshine laws is rising across the U.S., including one suit in the country's biggest data center market that le... (more story)
Specialty investment bank Ziegler said it has wrapped up a tax-exempt bonds financing deal worth more than $101.7 million that aims to support a California nonprofit public benefit corporation's upcoming senio... (more story)
Mall owner Simon Property Group has joined with other landlords of Fat Brands' eateries to tell a Texas bankruptcy court that the restaurant group's proposed Chapter 11 sale procedures don't give the property ... (more story)
Private equity giant Blackstone on Tuesday revealed it wrapped fundraising on its fifth opportunistic private credit fund after securing over $10 billion in investable capital, marking the firm's largest such fund to date.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Tuesday that it has added three attorneys to its mergers and acquisitions team, two of whom will lead its sports, media and entertainment practice.
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The Ninth Circuit held Monday that a district court's award of $8.7 million in fees and expenses to attorneys representing a whistleblower who claimed Academy Mortgage submitted false insurance claims was too ... (more story)
King & Spalding LLP is continuing to expand its real estate bench with the hiring of a New York-based lawyer from McDermott Will & Schulte LLP.
A Michigan federal court tossed a case challenging rules requiring brokers to be members of the National Association of Realtors and its local affiliates in order to access multiple listing services, saying co... (more story)
A police chief testified in Florida federal court on Monday there was a "strong argument" that the public could use a beach for recreational purposes in a landowner's lawsuit over access rights, telling a judg... (more story)
Two property management companies are using eviction proceedings to siphon illegal attorney fees and costs from former tenants according to two proposed class actions filed in Colorado state court Friday.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has brought back a former Hogan Lovells real estate transactions attorney as a shareholder in the firm's Denver office.
Multifamily investment firm Knightvest Capital has acquired a 389-unit Uptown Dallas Class A high-rise, and it plans to undertake luxury renovations for the property, the company announced Monday.