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Detroit Business & Commercial Litigation Attorneys | Michigan Business Litigation Lawyers

The Detroit law offices of Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, P.L.L.C., has a distinguished history offering complex and sophisticated legal representation primarily to business, real estate, and estate and tax clients.

We represent businesses and individuals in multiple practice areas, including:

* Business and commercial litigation
- High-Stakes and "Bet the Company" Litigation
- construction litigation
- officer and director liability
- insurance coverage
- professional liability litigation
- real estate litigation
- employment and discrimination
- antitrust & trade regulation
- business torts
- breach of contract
- corporate, LLC & partnership disputes
- gaming law
- intellectual property
- negligence and products liability defense
- unfair competition

* Class action defense litigation

* Real estate transactions
- lender representation
- developer representation
- commercial leasing
- acquisitions and sales
- condemnation
- construction contracts
- environmental
- financing
- formation of real estate ventures
- foreclosures or other remedies
- leasing
- site development
- tax assessments
- work-outs
- zoning

* Business counseling
- entity formation
- structuring and negotiating business transactions
- business acquisitions and sales
- employer counseling
- corporate governance and ethics
- employment benefits and executive compensation
- commercial transactions
- corporate, partnership, and limited liability company law
- mergers & acquisitions
- legislative & government relations
- labor & employment law
- health care
- immigration & naturalization
- internal investigations
- taxation

* Estate planning and probate
- estate and trust planning
- charitable planning
- business and succession planning
- estate and trust administration
- guardianships and conservatorships
- fiduciary and beneficiary representation

* Tax planning and representation
- estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax
- business and personal income tax
- tax-exempt organizations
- state and federal tax controversy
- retirement & pension planning

Creative Legal Solutions to Real Estate Transaction Issues

The goal of our real estate group is to complete a matter as quickly and efficiently as possible, with a “can do” attitude. Members of the real estate group constantly tackle complex problems by creatively using their analytical skills and broad knowledge of real estate law, along with their down-to-earth, practical sense of what will work, in order to bring real estate transactions to a successful closure.

Buyer and Seller Agreements

Our group of real estate attorneys has the depth of personnel and breadth to handle any type of real estate transaction. We routinely handle matters of extreme complexity with skill and efficiency. This group frequently (and comfortably) finds itself working opposite batteries of high-powered lawyers representing other parties in major real estate transactions. Two of the partners in BSD&D’s real estate group are listed in “The Best Lawyers in America”. Our real estate lawyers enjoy the reputation in the real estate community of being honest, smart, experienced, technically astute, tough but fair, practical, down-to-earth individuals, consistently producing favorable results for our clients.

Real Estate Financing

We provide sophisticated and effective counsel to lenders, including large commercial banks and many national financial institutions, insurance companies and pension funds. Follow this link to learn more about lender representation.

Real Estate Development

On the development side, the members of our practice group are counsel to some of the largest commercial real estate developers in Michigan. Our clients include not only numerous major real estate developers and contractors, but also owners and managers of shopping centers, apartment complexes, office buildings, restaurant chains, golf courses with residential developments and other commercial properties. We counsel these clients on land acquisitions, the formation of real estate ventures, site development, zoning, construction contracts, condemnations, environmental matters, financing, sale transactions and lease transactions (including land leases, sale/leaseback agreements and synthetic leases). We assist them in every step of the development process, including land assemblages (sometimes involving the use of the local municipality’s eminent domain powers), negotiating operating agreements and working out site development agreements with local governmental bodies.

Real Estate Litigation

We also have a strong real estate litigation practice with the resources to pursue these matters through the court system. Our real estate litigation lawyers have handled complex judicial mortgage foreclosures, real estate tax assessment trials, real estate aspects of bankruptcy proceedings, and construction defect disputes.

Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker PLLC
211 W Fort St - 15th floor
Detroit MI 48226-3281
Tel: 313 965-9725
Fax: 313 965-2493; 313 965-5398

The Detroit business and real estate law firm of Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker represents clients from across the country and throughout Michigan, including the cities of Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Southfield, Troy, Ann Arbor, Novi, Northville, Grosse Pointe, St. Clair Shores, Grand Rapids, Brighton, Monroe, Kalamazoo, Flint, Saginaw, Midland, Traverse City, and the following counties: Wayne County, Oakland County, Macomb County, Washtenaw County, Livingston County, Ingham County, and St. Clair County.