Real Estate
Whether you’re closing a real estate transaction or facing complex, high-stakes litigation, Cherry Johnson Siegmund James delivers the legal insight and experience needed to protect your assets and advance your interests.
LAND, LEASES, & LITIGATION—WE HANDLE IT ALL.
We advise clients through every stage of real estate ownership and investment, from the sale, purchase, and financing of property to leasing, development, and management. Our team routinely handles matters involving industrial facilities, residential communities, energy and utility infrastructure, entertainment venues, shopping centers, and other special-use properties. As a Texas-based firm, we also bring deep experience with farm and ranch land, as well as oil, gas, and mineral assets.
When disputes arise, we’re ready. Whether it’s a contract or lease issue, environmental or regulatory challenge, or a threat involving condemnation or eminent domain, we advocate aggressively in court and before regulatory bodies to protect our clients’ rights.
Our real estate services include:
- Acquisitions & divestitures of real estate assets
- Commercial development & construction matters
- Complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions
- Deed verification& title issues
- Eminent domain & condemnation
- Entity formation & joint venture structuring
- Foreclosures, note purchases, & evictions
- Lease drafting, negotiation, & disputes
- Real estate litigation & dispute resolution
- Seller financing & purchase agreements
- Solar & wind energy transactions
- All facets of oil, gas, and mineral leasing, including negotiation, purchase and sale of producing properties, mineral rights and royalty agreements, easements, exploration, and surface-use agreements, and production contracts