Your Deal Team Cannot Afford Legal Advice That Arrives After the Leverage is Gone.
CRE risk is rarely isolated in one document. A lease restriction can impair a redevelopment plan. An REA consent right can control closing certainty. A title exception can become a financing issue. A JV governance flaw can trap capital, stall exit rights, or shift control when the deal goes sideways. AiMS is built to identify those issues early, translate them into negotiation strategy, and keep the transaction moving. AiMS turns legal review into a decision-ready work stream: what matters, why it matters, who must consent, what to ask for, and how to preserve leverage.
Strategic Counsel.
Commercial Execution.
AiMS does not simply review documents. AiMS reviews the deal: the asset, the business plan, the capital stack, the counter party, the timing, and the legal mechanics that determine whether the plan can actually be executed.
The AiMS CRE Execution System
Attorney-built workflows. Senior CRE judgment. Decision-ready output.
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Deal Profile
AiMS starts with the asset, business plan, and transaction structure. We apply the same institutional-grade risk tolerance filters Michael utilized to manage a $6B+ AUM portfolio, ensuring every document is reviewed through the lens of your specific capital stack and timing.
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Institutional Workflow Library
AiMS applies a proprietary library of risk-triage methodologies Michael developed over $2 Billion in career transactions. These workflows cover CRE-specific risk categories—including anchor leases, REAs/OEAs, JVs, and debt—to identify blockers before they impair your deal leverage.
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Executive Legal Judgment
Michael personally reviews, calibrates, and converts the workflow output into practical, commercial recommendations: what matters, why it matters, and how to keep the deal moving. For ongoing clients, AiMS builds deep context around your assets, templates, and repeat transaction patterns to act as a true fractional General Counsel.
Why AiMS
Traditional Outside Counsel:
Hourly billing, no ceiling, and no alignment with your business plan or closing timeline. You absorb junior-associate processing costs on every diligence cycle regardless of outcome. Counsel reviews the document, not the deal.
Full-Time GC:
Fixed W-2 carry — base salary, benefits, and overhead — regardless of deal volume or pipeline activity. At most mid-market sponsors, the in-house GC still routes complex acquisitions, debt, and JV structuring to outside counsel, meaning you pay both costs without eliminating either.
AiMS Advisory:
A structured monthly retainer for operating counsel, fixed-fee execution for capital events, and a deferred component that aligns with closing. No junior-associate billing, no W-2 overhead, and no outside counsel spend that isn't controlled, scoped, and justified. Senior CRE judgment built into the cost structure — not billed on top of it.
FAQs
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CRE Sponsors, Family Offices, Private Equity.
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Leases, REAs, JVs, PSAs, Loan Docs, Construction Agreements, Title, and Surveys.
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No. Submission of information does not create an attorney-client relationship until conflicts are cleared and a written agreement is executed.
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AiMS uses secure legal technology, diligence, workflow, and artificial-intelligence tools to assist in providing services. Final legal judgment remains with AiMS. AiMS does not knowingly input client confidential information into public, non-confidential tools without client consent.
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See our Legal Notices page for a complete list of excluded specialty services.
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Through an initial non-confidential form before secure document upload.
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We schedule a Fit Call to review the findings and discuss formalized engagement structures.