The Real Estate Group at Drakeford & Kane LLC offers transactional expertise, keen market insight and persuasive lobbing and governmental advocacy skills. We represent banks and other lending institutions, as closing agents, providing mortgagors with timely, courteous, and responsive service in order to accommodate their needs. Our professionals also structure, negotiate, document and restructure a full-range of transactions, such as acquisitions and sales, financing (public and private), leasing, property management, and foreclosures. Moreover, we are adept with the intricacies of either forming or converting, not to mention managing, cooperatives and condominiums.

The Firm represents domestic and foreign lenders, including commercial banks and savings and loans, in actively negotiating, preparing and reviewing documents necessary for construction and permanent loans secured by real property.  Our involvement begins during the loan approval process and continues through the closing where the Firm acts as the closing agent and/or representative of the lender in certifying that the documentation is properly completed and executed by all parties.

The Firm provides strategic consulting to developers on the most efficient and cost-effective methods to finance the construction of infrastructure necessary for commercial and residential developments. We also represent developers and domestic and foreign lenders, including commercial banks, savings and loans and mortgage brokers, in actively negotiating and preparing documents necessary for construction and permanent loans secured by real property.  In addition, we assist our lender clients in designing and implementing appropriate due diligence investigation before loan closing.

We counsel landlords and tenants in the negotiation and documentation of commercial, industrial, retail and other business leases. Our lawyers are extensively involved in transactions involving millions of square feet of rental space in urban and suburban areas across the United States. We are also active in structuring and negotiating lease-equity arrangements and other innovative approaches to lease transactions.

We offer lenders, investors and borrowers a wide range of services in connection with problem loans and pre- and post-bankruptcy matters, including reviewing, analyzing and restructuring loan documents, as well as planning and evaluating available legal strategies and remedies. Our attorneys are particularly skilled at recommending additional collateral opportunities, loan restructurings and other workout agreements.