Business and Corporate Practice Areas: Real Estate

Bovis, Kyle & Burch, LLC enjoys an especially sophisticated real estate practice with the capacity and experience to handle the most complex transaction. The firm's real estate lawyers provide its clients counseling in all facets of real estate activity. The firm represents lenders, developers, and commercial and residential real estate sellers and purchasers.

The firm has participated in several significant sales of property in the Metropolitan Atlanta area, including the representation of a seller of an assembled tract of raw land with a purchase price exceeding $40 million.

Bovis, Kyle & Burch, LLC represents several lenders in connection with construction loans, permanent financing and debt restructuring. Such clients include NationsBank of Georgia, N.A. and Bank South, N.A. The firm also represents borrowers in negotiating loan terms and loan documents involving real estate. The firm has counseled borrowers, lenders and development authorities in several industrial development bond closings involving real estate collateral.

Bovis, Kyle & Burch, LLC has been actively involved in condemnation matters. Senior partner John Bovis leads the firm in this department. He has represented numerous land owners and tenants whose property has been condemned in connection with DOT and MARTA expansion.

The firm represents both landlords and tenants in lease negotiations. The firm has been especially successful in negotiating several retail leasing spaces for a tenant client with shops throughout the Southeastern United States. The firm has also negotiated numerous office leases in the Metropolitan Atlanta area.

The firm has developed expertise in lien laws. Bovis, Kyle & Burch, LLC represents several suppliers of equipment and materials for improving real estate. These clients have relied upon the firm to protect their rights under the Georgia lien laws. John Bovis and Wesley Skinner work in this area.

The firm advises several Atlanta-based developers of commercial and residential property with purchase agreements, zoning, the obtaining of financing for projects, and agreements to sell the property.

Bovis, Kyle & Burch, LLC's representation of all the players in real estate activity (lenders, borrowers, developers, sellers, purchasers, landlords, tenants, lienors, etc.) particularly qualifies the firm to serve its clients with real estate projects.