Richards, Layton & Finger has decades of experience in real estate purchase, sale and development projects throughout Delaware and in other states. Our familiarity with all the key players in real estate transactions allows us to help clients swiftly structure, negotiate and close the best possible business deals. From single commercial properties to multiple property portfolios valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, we have completed more (and more sophisticated) transactions than most other real estate lawyers in Delaware.

Because Richards Layton has experience with the largest financial institutions and institutional investors in the region, we can facilitate the financing of any development project. We also represent secured creditors and developers in restructuring troubled real estate projects and portfolios. Our wide-ranging knowledge of and contacts in the industry have given us special skills in lender liability, foreclosures, and other workout-related transactions.

Our strong working relationships with local government officials help to minimize conflicts and maximize opportunities in zoning, land use approvals, and economic development incentives. We handle unique development and regulatory issues, including in environmentally sensitive areas. Our lawyers are skilled at resolving difficult zoning matters, property tax problems, and other crucial issues to secure the timely approval of permits and zoning applications.

Richards Layton lawyers have been actively involved in drafting and implementing Delaware real estate law. Our lawyers have held leadership positions in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Delaware Chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women and Delaware State Bar Association, including as Real and Personal Property Section chair.

Richards, Layton & Finger is Delaware's largest law firm and one of its oldest. It provides counsel on sophisticated financial transactions involving Delaware corporations and alternative entities, as well as advice and guidance to clients locally and around the world. Richards Layton attorneys have been leaders in cases decided in Delaware courts addressing corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, fiduciary relations, commercial and other general civil matters.