Jeneé Hilliard

Representative Experience

• Real Estate Plus

  • Draft and negotiate purchase and sale agreements, review titles, surveys, and title insurance, prepare and review closing documents, title objection letters, and responses to title objection letters, prepare seller-financing documents, assist with closing, and draft and negotiate option agreements, rights of first refusal, and rights of first offer.

    • Represented sellers in sale of undeveloped real estate in phased closings with an aggregate purchase price of over $60 million.
    • Represented seller of shopping center.
    • Represented buyer in purchase of multi-family housing project with a purchase price of over $21 million.
    • Represented seller in a phased closing of sale of 40+ acres of undeveloped real estate, including negotiating partial releases with the lender.
    • Represented lender in sale of bank-owned commercial property.
    • Represented purchaser in asset acquisition, including acquisition of industrial real estate.
    • Represented school district in real estate acquisitions.
    • Represented a higher education institution in $26,000,000 acquisition of property.
• Tax Plus

  • Structure and close 1031 exchanges, including deferred exchanges, related-party exchanges, reverse exchanges, and improvement exchanges, and consult with clients and accountants on discrete 1031 issues, including related-party exchanges, taxable boot, and 45-day designations.

• Uncategorized Plus

  • Draft and negotiate lease agreements for office space, retail space, industrial space, bare land, and warehouse space, and consult with property owners and brokers on discrete lease issues such as indemnity provisions, representations and warranties, work agreements, and guaranties.

    • Represented landlord in drafting and negotiating an office lease and amendments to lease for 50,000+ square feet of office space in downtown Portland, Oregon.
    • Represented publicly-traded sublandlord in drafting and negotiating six subleases of a total of over 90,000 square feet of office space in Bellevue, Washington.
    • Represented landlord in resolution of office lease dispute.
    • Represented tenant in lease negotiations for 35,000 square feet of office space.

  • Choice-of-entity and formation issues, set up new business entities, review and update existing-entity documents, and dissolve entities, including corporations, S corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and nonprofit corporations.

  • Consult with developers regarding creating residential and commercial condominiums, condominium conversions, phased condominiums, condominium subdivisions, and condominium association issues, prepare condominium formation documents and work with the Oregon Real Estate Agency to obtain approval for condominium formation, and form condominium owners’ association.

  • Draft and negotiate easements, including utility easements, access easements, sign easements, parking easements, drainage easements, construction easements, slope easements, and encroachment easements.

    • Represented drainage district with respect to easement issues.

  • Review, draft, and negotiate general business agreements for school districts, colleges, and universities, including lease agreements, promissory notes and trust deeds, releases, waivers, policies, purchase and sale agreements, easements, intergovernmental agreements, license agreements, affiliation agreements, co-branding agreements, and services agreements.

    • Represented a university in a lease and multi-year service contract for photocopiers, mail room services and copy room services.
    • Represented a school district in documenting rights and obligations in a long-term collaboration with a nonprofit university.
    • Represented a university in evaluating a potential merger, affiliation, or asset acquisition of another nonprofit organization.
    • Represented a university in documenting the affiliation with another nonprofit organization.

  • Negotiate license agreements for temporary uses of space, including classrooms, libraries, gymnasiums, and boat docks.

  • Advise with respect to tax-deferred exchange issues and prepare documentation related to formation of TICs and sales and purchases of TIC interests.

  • Review title reports, title documents, and surveys to evaluate title risk and consult with clients regarding title insurance issues.

• Business Plus

  • Review, draft, and negotiate general business agreements for clients, including lease agreements, photocopier service agreements, food-service agreements, promissory notes and trust deeds, releases, shareholder agreements, partnership and limited liability company agreements, listing agreements, option agreements, rights of first refusal and first offer, asset purchase agreements, easements, license agreements, and service agreements.

• Finance Plus

  • Prepare loan documents for lenders, assist lenders with loan modifications and real estate secured loans, including title and title insurance issues, subordination agreements, and review and negotiate loan documents for borrowers and assist borrowers with real estate loan closings.