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Lashly & Baer, P.C. represents clients in the acquisition, development, subdivision, financing, sale, leasing, and management of real estate.  We represent developers, owners, and sellers during acquisition, sale, construction, redevelopment, and management of governmental, commercial, residential and urban redevelopment projects, and provide counsel during litigation with construction managers, general contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, and other design professionals.

Our lawyers are active in a wide variety of national, state and local professional associations including: Sections of Business Law, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, and State and Local Government Law of the American Bar Association; the International Municipal Lawyers Association; the Urban Land Institute; Municipal Bond Attorneys of the United States; National Association of Bond Lawyers; and Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants; as well as court and administrative agency advisory committees.  Members of the Firm have held leadership positions in many of these professional associations.

Also see Real Estate & Construction.

We regularly address the following legal issues for our clients:

  • Ad valorem taxes, license taxes and exemptions therefrom

  • Air rights

  • Assessment and taxation of real property

  • Building and public safety codes

  • Commercial real estate acquisitions, finance, development, leasing, and sale

  • Condemnations

  • Condominium organization, operation, development, and conversion

  • Construction and design law

  • Construction contract disputes, resolution, arbitration, and mediation

  • Construction contracts, finance, performance, bonds, and claims

  • Conveyancing

  • Cooperative agreements

  • Deed drafting and negotiation

  • Deed restrictions

  • Documentation between public institutions and private developers and investors

  • Easements

  • "Fast-track," "phased," "sequential," and "design-build" construction projects

  • Federal and state bidding and procurement standards and regulations, including:

    • bid bonds

    • constitutional and statutory requirements

    • provisions governing public financing

  • Federal and state regulation

  • Historic preservation contracts

  • Historic tax credits

  • HUD multi-family projects

  • Improvement districts

  • Indemnification of contractors and owners

  • Joint development agreements

  • Joint use agreements

  • Land acquisition, development, permitting, regulation, sale, and use

  • Landlord and tenant law

  • Lease agreements

  • Leasehold cooperative agreements

  • Lease-purchase agreements

  • License agreements

  • Like-kind exchanges

  • Listing agreements

  • Loan documentation

  • Mechanic's liens

  • Mooring privileges

  • Multi-tier public and private financing packages involving public funds, private debt, and equity financing

  • Operating agreements

  • Option agreements

  • Overhead and profit charges in construction contracts

  • Permanent, temporary, reciprocal, right-of-way air, and open-space easements

  • Private subdivision organization and operation

  • Proceedings before Boards of Equalization and the State Tax Commission

  • Public-private partnership structures such as "turnkey", "super-turnkey," contract service, build-Operate-Transfer (BOT), build-Transfer-Operate (BTO), developer financing (in exchange for development rights)

  • Quiet title actions

  • Real estate acquisitions, contracts, development, exchanges, finance, and foreclosure

  • Real estate partnerships and joint ventures

  • Real estate securities and syndication

  • Real estate taxation and assessment

  • Real property acquisition and development

  • Redevelopment agreements

  • Rental agreements

  • Residential development

  • Restrictive covenants

  • RESPA compliance

  • Right-of-way easements

  • Sale, syndication, and valuation of properties

  • Sales tax rebate agreements

  • Secured lending and transactions

  • Special tax districts

  • State and federal tax credits

  • Street and alley restrictions and declarations

  • Structured and synthetic financing lease

  • Subdivision restrictions

  • Tax abatement

  • Tax increment financing

  • Telecommunication siting

  • Tenancy in common (TIC) development and financing

  • Title examination

  • Transactions to raise funds for public infrastructure in which user fees, service charges, and tax revenues realized by new development secure the obligation and development fees

  • Urban redevelopment projects

  • Utility relocation

  • Zoning, planning, land use, and variances