• Due Diligence Services
• General Broker/Dealer and Registered Investment Advisor Representation
• Real Estate Finance
• Real Estate Acquisitions, Sales, and Exchanges
• Partnership, Joint Venture, and Real Estate Investment
• Corporate Law
• General Business Entity Formation
• Litigation
• FINRA Advertising Review

We are a provider of independent due diligence services for various broker-dealers and registered investment advisors throughout the country. The firm’s full-time and of-counsel attorneys have various additional professional and educational credentials, including MBAs and securities industry licenses. The firm’s practice involves not only broker-dealer and registered investment advisor representation, but real estate acquisition, development and finance. Firm attorneys have been employed by broker-dealers who have syndicated real estate equity offerings in hospitality, senior living, office and retail development and acquisition. The firm’s due diligence representation includes reviewing and opining on offerings of various asset classes including DST, real estate equity fund, REIT, oil and gas/alternative energy, private equity, life settlements, equipment leasing, managed futures and hedge funds. The firm provides clients individualized legal opinions with an additional focus on project and fund structure, financing, valuation and exit analysis.

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Our Broker/Dealer and registered investment advisor practice provides a broad range of legal services to the broker/dealer and registered investment advisor communities. Some of these services include transactional, advisory, investigatory, litigation/arbitration and regulatory matters.

With the myriad issues facing the broker/dealer and registered investment advisor industry today, and the increasingly complex environment of regulatory issues and litigation, our comprehensive experience and client-focused expertise enables us to provide the highest quality of legal and advisory services to our valued clients.

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• Leases

  The firm has a varied and sophisticated leasing practice. Our lawyers represent both landlords and tenants and have significant experience in leasing transactions, including retail leases, ground leases, build-to-suit leases, office leases, industrial leases and subleases. We are pleased to have local and regional retail and commercial office building owners as clients.

• Real Estate Development

  Our lawyers assist clients in all types of real estate development, including multifamily, office, shopping center, industrial, and hotel projects. We have extensive experience in the creation and operation of residential, commercial and mixed-use condominiums and planned unit developments.

• Real Estate Financing

  We represent clients seeking construction and permanent financing and also actively represent many regional and national lending institutions. Our lawyers advise clients on current methods and alternatives in real estate financing and assist in the structuring and documentation of real estate mortgages, deeds of trust, contracts of sale and other financing transactions such as sale-and-leasebacks.

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We are regularly involved in structuring and documenting limited liability companies, real estate partnerships, and joint ventures. Our lawyers advise the client on the appropriate structuring of various real estate investment vehicles.

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General Business Entity Formation

Mick & Associates P.C., LLO is experienced in forming and maintaining business entities of many types, including subchapter S corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships. An appropriate entity structure is critical to all businesses, whether they are family businesses, emerging companies, or professional organizations, and whether they are owned and capitalized by one owner or many. Partnerships, LLC's, corporations and S corporations allow for flexible business planning, but with flexibility can come complexity. Our attorneys and staff are prepared to utilize the flexibility offered by these different entities without undue complexity. The end result is an organization customized to its own specific needs.

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We represent buyers, sellers, developers, landlords, tenants and owners in a wide variety of real estate disputes, including:

• Complex commercial/industrial/retail landlord/tenant disputes
• Quiet title actions, including adverse possession disputes, boundary disputes and access disputes
• Private and public condemnations
• Easement and right of way disputes
• Disclosure disputes (known and unknown conditions)
• Specific performance
• Commission disputes
• Escrow/earnest money disputes
• Trespass/nuisance claims

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