Legal Services

For Affordable Housing Developers

Rizer Law offers end-to-end legal support tailored to the unique challenges of affordable housing development from conception to preservation.

Pre-Development

• Draft organizational documents
• Contract and project document review and negotiation
• Review and negotiation of predevelopment loan documents

Construction Closing

• Draft transfer documents
• Draft related party loan agreements
• Project document review and negotiation
• Comprehensive review and negotiation of loan documents, equity documents, other financing documents and regulatory agreements
• Assist the development team in addressing underwriting challenges
• Facilitate communication with equity investors, lenders, agencies, and municipalities
• Issue local counsel opinions

Stabilization and Asset Management

• Help the development team resolve issues during construction, stabilization and asset management
• Assist with restructuring if necessary

End of Initial Compliance Period and Preservation

• Facilitate investor removal
• Reorganize ownership structure
• Restructure transactions for retention and preservation
• Assist with regulatory approvals of sales or transfers