Manages complex real estate transactions from term sheet to closing. Experience with a wide range of asset and property types.
Melanie Taylor advises prominent institutional real estate investors and developers as well as small businesses and nonprofit organizations in a broad range of large and complex real estate transactions in Colorado, New York and nationally. She represents both landlords and tenants in the leasing of a variety of asset classes—such as office, retail, restaurant, industrial and mixed-use—for established, redevelopment and new construction properties. Melanie also has extensive experience representing both buyers and sellers in the acquisition and disposition of office, industrial, multifamily, hospitality and mixed-use properties as well as development parcels. She negotiates a variety of documents, from leases, subleases and licenses to purchase and sale agreements, and all of the ancillary agreements related to such transactions. She also negotiates contribution, joint venture and easement agreements and condominium documents for development parcels.
Skilled at managing the full transaction process, Melanie serves as the main contact for clients and opposing counsel, leads deal teams, negotiates transaction documents and directs diligence review and ancillary and post-closing transaction matters. Clients appreciate her ability to distill legal documents into clear-cut business concerns, her focus on their goals and her collaborative approach to working with opposing counsel to close transactions while ensuring her clients remain protected.
Prior to joining Brownstein, Melanie was an associate at Fried Frank in New York City.