Structuring Transactions: The Case of Real Estate Finance (Revised Version: March 2008)

A question often posed but rarely satisfactorily answered is: what do lawyers do? In this paper we take the work of real estate finance lawyers and examine how they structure transactions within the cross-border context. For the analysis the key term is structure as it is this that determines the success or failure of a transaction. This places the lawyer in an analogous position to the architect in a construction project. We provide examples of transactions and how they are articulated. This paper is co-authored by a practitioner and an academic.

Keywords: lawyer-client, banks, lawyers, transactions, structure

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Flood, John A. and Skordaki, Eleni, Structuring Transactions: The Case of Real Estate Finance (Revised Version: March 2008) (2008). CONTRACTUAL CERTAINTY IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE, V. Gessner, ed., 2008, U of Westminster School of Law Research Paper No. 10-04 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1540615 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1540615