Jones Day's Corporate Real Estate Services Practice brings market-leading approaches to the real estate process to reduce the cost and maximize the value of corporate real estate assets.

The practice provides legal services related to the ownership, development, operation, and finance of real estate and related facilities to clients outside the real estate industry for whom real estate is a support to core businesses.  Our lawyers provide counseling with respect to hard asset activities and, as needed, draw on the global resources of related practices within the Firm.  We not only offer value in single real estate projects of significance, but also contribute as regular members of clients' legal and management teams.  The ability to know the client and design an approach that maximizes economies of scale can have a major impact on both the overall legal and other costs to the client and, often, on the quality of result.

• Geographic Diversity. Jones Day's offices are located in major financial and other business markets across the United States and around the world.
• Nationwide and Global Project Management Capability.  The range of projects in which the Firm is active results in CRES lawyers being regularly involved in property matters spanning all 50 states, Europe, Asia and many other jurisdictions. This extensive experience in the management and structuring of transactions worldwide is supplemented, beyond Jones Day’s own locations and lawyer base, by the Firm’s ability to identify and coordinate with independent lawyers and firms, whether in the United States or overseas, with suitable qualifications and experience.
• Interdisciplinary Approach.  The organization of both the Firm and the CRES Practice team is founded upon our single partnership and cooperative, client-centered orientation. This ensures that the most appropriate and qualified individuals are available, on a timely and cost-effective basis, to address even the most complex and unusual client problems.
• Sensitivity to Cost.  For many clients, the CRES Practice has achieved unexpected savings through the reduction or containment of real estate-related legal expenditures, and by the reduction of management time and distraction made possible through a better understanding of the goals and risk preferences of the client at the outset.  In addition, Jones Day is a market leader in structuring alternative billing arrangements for comprehensive engagements.
• Construction Capability.  Our CRES lawyers are widely recognized for their specialty practice in design, development and construction law. These professionals provide all elements of transactional construction project counseling, documentation, and advocacy. Jones Day offers varied and creative approaches to traditional design and construction contracting, as well as the development of client-specific construction document systems, including manageable methods of training and responsibility to permit client personnel to implement and monitor in-house programs for repetitive construction needs.