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South Florida Real Estate Group Holland & Knight’s Real Estate Group is active throughout the South Florida market across a network of three offices: Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Miami. Because Florida is one of the country’s top states for growth across a range of industry sectors, the South Florida practice serves as an integral part of Holland & Knight’s nationwide recognition. For more than 100 years, we have provided legal counsel to real estate clients in practically every area of their business, including acquisitions/development/sales, finance/lending, commercial projects, office/retail/residential and mixed-use/public housing.

South Florida Real Estate Group Quick Facts Deep Hospitality Bench of attorneys throughout South Florida, the gateway to Latin America

Numbers 48 lawyers in the South Florida Real Estate group – the largest concentration of real estate attorneys across the firm

Leadership Positions in Urban Land Institute, the largest and most prestigious land use organization in the country Armando Codina's Downtown Doral development in Miami

Our Transactional Experience and Prowess Allow Us to Be:

Highly Responsive

Innovative

Connected

to market changes, creatively adapting as circumstances demand

by offering cutting-edge counsel on evolving issues affecting every aspect of the real estate industry

to the Florida, Caribbean and Latin American markets, employing our intimate knowledge of pivotal opportunities, trending communities and challenges within these locales and beyond

Holland & Knight’s Real Estate Practice Is at the Forefront of: Real Estate Finance Finance is a core strength of our Real Estate practice, as demonstrated by our significant track record in the national real estate finance space.

Retail Holland & Knight has one of the strongest retail practices nationwide. As other retail law firms abandon their focus on the retail sector, we are even more committed to it and continue to organize our retail practice around the needs of clients to fit their business services and structures.

Hospitality We focus on the hotel and hospitality industry, with particular emphasis on hotel and mixeduse communities. We advise hotel owners and developers of mixed-use resort and urban communities domestically and in the emerging markets of Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

Sustainable Development Holland & Knight was one of the first law firms with attorneys certified as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-accredited. We have attorneys who are certified to advise clients on green building, environmentally sustainable construction and performance issues.

Low-Income Housing Tax Credits Since the inception of low-income housing tax credits in 1975, Holland & Knight has represented syndicators, developers, broker-dealers and equity investors in structuring, negotiating and documenting tax-advantaged equity investments in all types of real estate throughout the U.S. As a result, we have developed extensive knowledge about low-income housing tax credits and the tax and business problems that can arise in structuring tax-advantaged transactions.

Rankings and Recognition 2027 The Best Lawyers in America 156 real estate lawyers were recognized, noted in the areas of Leisure and Hospitality Law, Real Estate Law, LitigationReal Estate, Environmental Law, and Land Use and Zoning Law. 2026 The Legal 500 United States Holland & Knight was recognized as top tier nationwide for Real Estate: Land Use/ Zoning and recommended for Real EstateConstruction, Real Estate-Real Estate: Large Cap ($500M+) and Real EstateFinance. 2026 Chambers USA 43 real estate attorneys from nine markets were recognized. The Firm received No. 1 rankings in Real Estate (North and Central Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Washington, D.C.) and Zoning/Land Use (California and South Florida). 2026 Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” Holland & Knight received national firsttier rankings in Real Estate Law and Land Use and Zoning Law in addition to 300 metropolitan first-tier rankings across 26 of its U.S. offices, including Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

Contact Us Hugo Arza Miami Real Estate Practice Group Leader Partner | Miami +1.305.789.7783 hugo.arza@hklaw.com Nicholas Milano Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach Real Estate Practice Group Leader Partner | Fort Lauderdale +1.954.468.7804 nick.milano@hklaw.com