Williams & Connolly LLP has considerable experience both in litigating substantial real estate disputes and in advising clients in real estate transactions.
The firm has represented owners, developers, and builders of shopping centers, office buildings, and residential projects in a variety of matters. Williams & Connolly lawyers have also represented hotel companies in matters relating to the acquisition of new properties and in litigation involving management agreements pursuant to which the hotels are operated. These representations have included pre-complaint investigations and demands, trials and arbitrations, and appeals. The firm obtained a jury verdict for its client, a real estate investment trust, in a $30 million claim over the sale of an apartment complex. The firm also successfully handled an arbitration for a client sued by a national home developer for breach of a land development contract. The firm has long represented a national hotel chain, and litigates the full spectrum of real estate and development claims, including, most recently, litigation over that hotel chain's alleged violation of an exclusive taxi franchise.
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