Ice Miller’s Real Estate, Environmental & Energy Law (REEL) practice brings decades of industry experience and a deep understanding of the business drivers behind every deal.
We help clients seize opportunities, manage risk, and move projects forward with clarity and confidence.
Ice Miller provides clients with nationwide capacity paired with local insight—ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA in Indiana, our team has completed transactions in nearly all 50 states.
We work collaboratively across disciplines—real estate, tax, corporate, environmental, energy, land use, construction, public finance, and litigation—to streamline execution and drive strong outcomes at every phase of a project.
From initial site evaluation to closing, development, financing, leasing, or dispute resolution, Ice Miller provides practical, responsive counsel that supports your vision and advances your business.
Asset Classes We Serve
- Industrial & logistics
- Multifamily, mixed-use, single-family residential and build-to-rent (BTR), and student housing
- Offices
- Retail & mixed use
- Hospitality & leisure
- Healthcare & medical offices
- Data centers & digital infrastructure
- Energy adjacent real estate/power plant related sites
- Affordable housing, LIHTC, and other state and federal tax credits
- Distressed assets
We counsel a wide range of real estate market participants—including developers; owners and operators; landlords and tenants; institutional and private investors; lenders and financial institutions; municipalities and nonprofits; and foreign investors with multistate United States portfolios. Whether your organization manages sophisticated, high volume transactions or engages in real estate only occasionally, our team provides scalable, tailored support across the following areas and beyond:
We guide clients through the full lifecycle of buying and selling property, including site diligence, title and zoning analysis, environmental review, financing, risk mitigation, and closing. Our work spans vacant land acquisitions for future development, stabilized assets, redevelopment sites, and multi asset portfolios.
We support projects from concept to completion, negotiating development agreements with other developers or municipalities, structuring joint ventures, navigating land use and entitlements, negotiating multi-property or multi-phase agreements with neighboring property owners, coordinating environmental considerations, assisting with construction contracting, and managing project related risk allocation.
Leasing & Portfolio Management
We negotiate sophisticated leasing arrangements for landlords and tenants across all asset classes—office, industrial, retail, mixed use, medical, hospitality, and specialty spaces. We also advise on portfolio operations, build to suit arrangements, ground leases, and complex occupancy strategies.
We represent borrowers and lenders in construction loans, permanent financing, refinancing, mezzanine and preferred equity structures, credit facilities, recapitalizations, and loan portfolio transactions—aligning capital strategies with project goals and market realities.
We advise and represent for-profit and nonprofit developers and upper-tier investors through the full lifecycle of tax credit financed housing projects, including LIHTC, new market tax credits, historic tax credits, state tax credits, and federal solar energy tax credits.
We design efficient, forward thinking structures for partners, investors, and operators, including co investment platforms, programmatic multi asset joint ventures, waterfall arrangements, governance frameworks, and exit strategies that protect long term value.
Zoning, Land Use & Environmental
Through the REEL platform, we provide integrated guidance on zoning, permitting, entitlements, environmental compliance, brownfield redevelopment, and energy real estate issues. We help clients navigate regulatory challenges while maintaining deal momentum.
Distressed Real Estate & Restructuring
We handle distressed acquisitions, note purchases, workouts, receiverships, restructurings, and litigation involving troubled assets, partnering with clients to preserve value and pursue strategic opportunities in challenging situations.
When disputes arise, we offer practical, business focused advocacy across ownership, leasing, development, construction, partnership, and financing matters. Our goal is straightforward: resolve issues efficiently so clients can stay focused on their business.
