Mayer Brown's Real Estate Group is large, varied and international in its capability. Each year, Mayer Brown real estate lawyers handle thousands of purchases, sales, leases, financings, securitization transactions and restructurings involving tens of billions of dollars and pounds around the world. The Real Estate Group consists of lawyers throughout our international network of offices with the combined expertise and skills necessary to provide excellent service to clients in complex real estate transactions worldwide.
We provide fully integrated skills and a proven track record in key real estate areas such as tax, environment and project finance, both from within the Group, but also drawn from our other specialist Groups in the firm. We have gained broad experience and high visibility in real estate transactions by developing a worldwide network of relationships with lenders, developers, investors, corporates, and other professional advisers. Mayer Brown's Real Estate Group has the resources and experience to advise on any type of transaction.
With the diverse array of structures and sources of finance now in the market (joint ventures, hedges, derivatives, mezzanine loans, commercial paper conduits, swaps, caps, synthetic leases, leveraged leases and more) the real estate industry spills over its historic boundaries into a wide range of substantive areas. Mayer Brown knows these products; in many cases we helped create them. As one of the world's leading firms in banking law, securitization, tax, environmental law, investment management, creditors rights, and project finance, we are well positioned to guide our clients through the business considerations, regulatory constraints and tax implications of the structures that best meet their needs.
Our real estate practice is enhanced by our extensive involvement and influence at various levels of the real estate industry. Many of our partners are involved with industry organizations and committees and regularly participate in the formation of central and local government policies and initiatives. We are a leading voice in the industry with our lawyers teaching, publishing and speaking on a variety of issues. Several of our lawyers have served on the faculties of major law schools teaching real estate law, while a number are authors or co-authors of important industry texts.
