Real Estate, Facilities and Business Transactions

Bond attorneys regularly represent colleges and universities in a variety of business, facilities and real estate matters, from the routine to the transformative. We have helped numerous institutions:

• Negotiate comprehensive facilities, dining, bookstore and campus security outsourcing arrangements.
• Design, negotiate and implement a wide variety of interinstitutional relationships, including mergers, acquisitions, affiliations and shared services arrangements. These representations include not only transactional negotiation, diligence and typical transactional work, but also include extensive expertise in navigating and securing required regulatory and accreditation approvals.
• Negotiate construction, architect, project management and other capital project agreements.
• Obtain necessary zoning and permitting approvals for real estate projects, including representation before municipal zoning, planning and other boards.
• Structure bond financings and commercial borrowing transactions.
• Negotiate privatized student housing partnership arrangements.
• Negotiate clinical affiliation and experiential learning agreements.
• Negotiate with Salesforce, Workday, Workato, implementation partners and consultants for CRM, ERP and other cloud-service solutions.

• Negotiate with software as a service (SaaS) providers regarding housing software, security technology, course management software solutions, telehealth software, financial software and other solutions necessary for higher education.
• Negotiate facilities use arrangements, including use of institutional facilities by third parties and use of arenas, stadia and other outside facilities for institutional athletics and other functions.

• Draft and negotiate partnership agreements involving study away programs and international data transfer with institutions and program providers throughout the world.
• Negotiate campus pouring rights agreements with Pepsi and Coca-Cola.