Nicole Sahagen Schiff is Chair of both the Retail Leasing and Development Industry Specialty and Leasing practice groups. She is also a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. Ms. Schiff represents buyers, sellers, lenders, developers and tenants in all aspects of the acquisition, financing, development, leasing and disposition of retail, office, industrial, and medical-use properties.
Ms. Schiff has extensive experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating retail, office and industrial leases, purchase and sale agreements for improved and unimproved real estate, development agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, restrictive covenants, and CC&Rs. Nationally, she has represented landlords and tenants in all types of retail, industrial, office and medical office building leases, and in all aspects of the leasing process, including the negotiation of leases, work letters, extension agreements, termination and work out agreements, SNDAs, estoppel certificates and related documents. Ms. Schiff also has significant experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating lease assignment and assumption agreements, tenant improvement work agreements, signage rights, permitted transfers, renewals, lease guarantees, subleases, nondisturbance agreements, and landlord consents.
Ms. Schiff handles all aspects of real estate due diligence, including review of title reports, negotiation of title insurance policies, and analysis of ALTA surveys and environmental site assessments. She represents lender clients in connection with foreclosures related to troubled projects, REOs, deeds of trust, assignments of rents, and cross-collateralizations of real estate collateral.