Practice Expertise

  • Real Estate
  • Acquisitions and Dispositions
  • Commercial Leasing
  • Real Estate Finance

Areas of Practice

  • Acquisitions and Dispositions
  • Commercial Leasing
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Land Use, Zoning and Development
  • Leasing
  • Real Estate Development
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Profile

Meticulous and practical commercial real estate development and borrower financing counsel

Diane Haller is a real estate lawyer whose clients include pension funds, public and private companies, national and local developers, and investors. She focuses on highly complex commercial transactions such as:

  • Real estate development, including incentive agreements
  • Real estate financing, representing borrowers
  • Real estate portfolio transactions

Clients appreciate that, with more than 30 years of legal experience, Diane brings both deep legal knowledge of real estate and extensive historical knowledge of the who, what, why and how of real estate deals, enabling her to offer valuable context to the legal advice she provides.

Bar Admissions

  • Arizona

Education

  • University of Notre Dame Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1986)
  • University of Utah (B.S., magna cum laude, 1983)

Areas of Practice

  • Acquisitions and Dispositions
  • Commercial Leasing
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Land Use, Zoning and Development
  • Leasing
  • Real Estate Development

Professional Career



Articles

  • "Bank & Financial Institutions Special Assets Executive Conference on Real Estate Workouts"
  • "Escrow and Closing"
  • "Purchase Contract and Option Contract Defaults"
  • "Purchase Contracts from Letters of Intent through Due Diligence, including Survey and Title Review, to Closing"
  • "Should Phoenix revitalize the Suns' 26-year-old arena? That's a no-brainer"
  • "Successful Strategies for Public-Private Partnerships"
  • Diane Haller Co-Authors Phoenix Business Journal Article About Phoenix Community Alliance’s 40th Anniversary
  • Real Estate Development Course (Due Diligence)
  • “Advanced Lease Analysis"
  • “Managing Successor Liability for Speculative Builder Tax"
  • “Please Don’t Pick the Cherries: A Study of Real Estate Equity and Debt Portfolio Transactions”

Seminar

  • "Please Don’t Pick the Cherries: A Study of Real Estate Equity and Debt Portfolio Transactions"

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