Bingham is the resource of choice for developers, investors, landowners, builders, municipalities and public agencies with complex and challenging development issues. We provide the transactional, due diligence, entitlement, compliance, litigation and advisory services necessary to transform land use and development challenges into success stories.
Local Depth, Nationwide Reach. Our capabilities run broad and deep in our local California communities. Our nationwide footprint gives us the capacity to handle sophisticated transactions throughout the United States.
Seamless Resources. Our practice is unmatched in the breadth of services we offer to our clients. We are recognized for our work on every aspect of development including:
- Formulating and implementing due diligence analyses involving land use, natural resources, infrastructure availability including water supply, title and other issues
- Forming acquisition and development entities including developer/developer, developer/financial and public/private partnerships
- Negotiating acquisition agreements and financing documentation
- Designing private and public financings, including prevailing wage statute analysis
- Preparing and negotiating appropriate design and construction documentation
- Negotiating, processing, documenting and bullet-proofing local, state and federal entitlements and permits
- Drafting general plans, master plans, zoning ordinances, affordable housing plans and development agreements
- Advising clients concerning the use of initiatives and referenda
- Defending entitlements and project approvals
- Pursuing challenges to unlawful fees and exactions
- Implementing leasing programs
- Formulating and implementing exit strategies
Representation of Public and Private Entities. We represent both public and private entities. The breadth of our practice provides a nuanced understanding of each group’s needs, as well as a heightened sensitivity to political and community perspectives.
Focused Services. Clients rely on the Land Use and Development Group for sophisticated, practical counsel on a wide variety of topics, including the following areas:
- CEQA and Land Use Litigation
- Development Financing
- Entitlement Processing
- Historic Resources
- Infrastructure Development
- Local Government Representation
- Military Base Reuse
- National Environmental Policy Act Analysis and Compliance
- Natural Resources Permitting
- Real Estate Transactional Services
- Urban Infill and Redevelopment
- Water Law