Opportunity Zone Transactions

Overview

The Opportunity Zones Program provides significant financial and tax opportunities for real estate and private equity investors along with start-up operating businesses (including technology companies), manufacturing companies and service businesses willing to locate within an opportunity zone. Our cross-disciplinary team of Corporate, Real Estate, and Tax attorneys can assist real estate investors, private equity investors, and fund managers in evaluating, structuring, and executing on investments and private funds that qualify for the Opportunity Zone Program.

Experience

Experience

  • $25 million adaptive re-use project

    The firm handled the real estate and opportunity zone structuring for a $25 million adaptive re-use project for a developer on the west side of the Atlanta Beltline that also involves state and federal historic tax credits.

  • $50 million adaptive re-use project, including a Qualified Opportunity Fund

    The firm structured all aspects of an opportunity zone real estate investment, including forming the Qualified Opportunity Fund, of a $50 million adaptive re-use project in Greenville, South Carolina including a brewery, retail and a multifamily component.

  • Qualified Opportunity Fund

    Assisted a fund manager in evaluating, structuring, and executing on three transactions that qualified for the Opportunity Zone Program.

  • Real Estate Opportunity Zone

    Structured multiple real estate opportunity zone transactions, including a transaction in excess of $125 million in central Florida and transactions locally that also included a tax deferred like kind exchange and the monetization of federal and state historic tax credits.

  • Leasing more than 350,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space in an opportunity zone

    Represented an innovative vertical farm owner in connection with leasing more than 350,000 sq. ft. of warehouse growing space in a historic building located in an opportunity zone in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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