Real Estate

Real estate has been an important part of the firm’s practice from its inception.  Approximately ten attorneys devote most of their time to real estate matters.  The members of the real estate team include fellows of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the American College of Mortgage Attorneys and leaders of the American Bar Association’s Real Property, Probate and Trust Section. The firm regularly represents clients in purchase and sale transactions, leasing, mortgage financing, development projects, UCC transactions, oil and gas financing, construction, mezzanine financing and timber sales. Recent real estate projects the firm has handled include transactions involving power plants, telecommunications facilities, office buildings, shopping centers, hospitals, steel plants, shipyards, casinos, barge financing, mezzanine financing, tenant in common financing and the purchase and financing of large blocks of mineral and timber interests. The firm's real estate practice also includes expertise in zoning and land use regulation, which is described as a separate practice area. See Zoning and Land Use Regulation.  The real estate team is able to draw on the firm’s expertise in environmental, energy, public finance and taxation matters.

Representative Matters

• Negotiation of industrial product tolling manufacturing agreement and related sales and distribution agreements for publicly-traded manufacturer.
• Negotiation of lease-purchase of client’s commercial printing facilities.
• Acquisition and disposition of timber interests.
• Negotiation of commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions.
• Represented Covington Realty Partners in acquisition of Lakeland Commons Shopping Center in Flowood.
• Represented Hillwood Development of Dallas in construction financing and development of industrial property in Southaven, Mississippi.
• Represented Medley Capital in financing of property for major mixed use development in Marshall County
• Represented CIT in financing of purchase of casino in Vicksburg.
• Represented LSF5 of Dallas in foreclosure and sale of shopping center in Brandon, Mississippi.
• Represented Mills Corporation in financing of regional shopping mall in Ridgeland, Mississippi.
• Represented Time Equities in purchase and financing of shopping center in Jackson, Mississippi.   
• Represented Silvertip Development in purchase and financing of brownfields site for development as retail and golf course site in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

News & Events

• 2008 Chambers USA Ranks Brunini Among Top Law Firms in Mississippi
• Brunini Lawyers Named Best Lawyers in America

Publications

• Mississippi’s New Land Recording Act, The Mississippi. Lawyer (March/April 1994)
• Enforcing Security Interests in Personal Property in Mississippi, 67 Miss. L.J. 93 (1997)
• Revised Article 9 and Real Estate Foreclosures, Probate & Property, September-October 1998
• Foreclosing on Personal Property in Mississippi, part of Foreclosure Law in Mississippi, a book published by the University of Mississippi Institute for Continuing Studies (1999)
• Revised Article 9 and Real Property, 36 Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal 511 (Fall 2001)
• The Law of Distressed Real Estate (Clark Boardman Callaghan) ( Mississippi jurisdictional summary) (2004)
• Mississippi’s Superpriority Lien, or Why Credithrift Needs to be Downsized, The Mississippi Lawyer (February/March/April 2006)
• Mortgaging the Leasehold Interest, part of Foreclosure Law in Mississippi, a book published by the University of Mississippi Institute for Continuing Studies (1999 and 2003)