Paul LeBlanc focuses his practice on advising clients in real estate development and finance matters, including purchase and sale transactions, real estate development ventures, commercial leasing, and lending transactions. He represents clients on both sides of these transactions, including:
- Buyers and sellers in purchase and sale transactions of both raw land and improved properties
- Landlords and tenants in commercial lease transactions, including space in office buildings, shopping centers, and industrial centers
- Lenders and borrowers in lending transactions, including transactions with real property collateral as well as non-real estate commercial loans
- Pension and retirement funds, life insurance companies, asset managers, and other entities involved in real estate development ventures, including shopping centers, multifamily complexes, and mixed-use developments
- Pipeline companies (as part of a legal team) in obtaining interstate and intrastate rights-of-way via easement negotiations and, if needed, through eminent domain lawsuits
Earlier in his career, Paul spent several years exclusively representing lenders in real estate and non-real estate lending transactions, making him uniquely positioned to advise institutional and non-institutional lenders and borrowers in loan transactions. He also draws on his time spent as a litigation associate to analyze legal and client issues, anticipating potential problems before they arise.
