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Cooley Godward Kronish represents a great variety of clients with complex real estate needs, from public companies with corporate offices throughout the United States to biopharmaceutical and medical device companies with sophisticated R&D and manufacturing facilities.
Our attorneys have vast experience in structuring leases, build-to-suits, sale-leasebacks and synthetic leases for all types of corporate facilities. A large part of the practice is geared to assist clients with the acquisition, entitlement, financing and development of their own corporate, R&D and manufacturing facilities.
Working closely with members of other practice groups, such as Emerging Companies and Life Sciences, our real estate attorneys coordinate and manage the real estate due diligence and transaction requirements of the Firm's corporate clients that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions, sales of assets and financings.
Representative transactions include advising:
- A leading public technology company in its acquisition of an existing office park in Silicon Valley and the planned redevelopment of its headquarters to include a 2-million-square-foot corporate campus.
- Neurocrine Biosciences in connection with the sale/leaseback of its approximately 210,000-square-foot office/lab project in the Del Mar Heights submarket of San Diego.
- Entropic Communications in connection with a lease of an approximately 90,000-square-foot office/R&D facility from Kilroy Realty in the Sorrento Mesa submarket of San Diego.
- Ardea Biosciences, Inc. in connection with the lease of an approximately 64,000-square-foot R&D and office facility in Costa Mesa, California.
- Numerous, prominent corporate entities in their due diligence, acquisition and entitlement phases of development, such as America Online (2.2 million square foot Dulles, Virginia headquarters), Capital One Financial Corporation (1.1 million square foot Tysons Corner, Virginia campus), Oracle (Reston, Virginia), Mitre (McLean, Virginia headquarters), Nextel (Reston, Virginia) and One Loudoun (3+ million square foot, World Trade Center-designated campus in Loudoun County, Virginia).
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