Our industry team includes attorneys throughout the United States, including the Southeast and the Southwest, where industry growth has been exponential. Foley attorneys have strong backgrounds in a wide array of practice areas, including real estate, tax, land use, finance, capitalization, privacy, securities, environmental, endangered species, wetlands, sensitive habitats, water rights, intellectual property, and construction, which enables our attorneys to skillfully guide developers, owners, managers, members, associations, government agencies, and lenders in projects involving golf courses, clubs, resorts, and timeshares and fractional developments.

Acquisition and Disposition
Foley provides a comprehensive and sophisticated array of services in connection with the acquisition and disposition of golf courses, clubs, and resorts, including the following:

• Negotiating and preparing letters of intent, purchase and sale agreements, and related documentation
• Title and survey review, including covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs), easements, access rights, development restrictions, and encroachments
• Conducting and coordinating extensive due diligence
• Transferring and/or securing permits and licenses, including liquor licenses
• Membership program audits to analyze opportunities and formulate new membership strategies
• Counseling on labor and employment issues, including compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
• Acquiring and protecting intellectual property rights
• Negotiating and documenting acquisition financing
• Water rights audits and transferring and/or securing all water rights, including potable, non-potable, well, reclaimed, and effluent water
• Reviewing environmental reports, soils reports, engineering studies, zoning reports, and other property condition reports and studies

Foley attorneys help ensure that all critical legal and business issues for the various phases and aspects of the acquisition and disposition process are addressed in a timely, efficient, and professional manner. With each transaction, our attorneys take a practical and common sense approach to provide workable solutions to issues as they arise. In complex matters, our attorneys think beyond traditional parameters to provide creative and cost-effective solutions. Foley attorneys also coordinate and manage the efforts of third-party professionals involved in the transaction such as lenders, surveyors, title agents, engineers, and environmental experts.

Foley is committed to providing cutting-edge technology to our clients to facilitate the due diligence process. For example, clients can have access to Foley's proprietary ClientSuite, a custom intranet site complete with an electronic “war room,” transaction documents, contact lists, checklists, calendaring, and other functions specific to a particular client. Our attorneys also can create standardized forms specific to a client's needs to minimize legal costs in future transactions. Foley attorneys are prepared to be as involved in the as appropriate, from managing all aspects of the transaction to adding value in specific areas as the need arises.