Adele I. Stone

Stone assists clients in all phases of a commercial transaction. She diligently tracks trends in the commercial sector, including recent case law and new and proposed legislation in order to help her real estate clients maximize their desired outcomes.

Stone works closely with real estate owners, investors, developers, landlords, tenants and individual clients in the following areas:

• Acquisition and disposition strategies
• Complex commercial purchases and sales
• Commercial loans, including acquisition, development and construction loans
• Lease agreements for office, retail and industrial spaces
• Creation of office and industrial parks, including preparation of association documents, easement agreements and restrictive covenants
• Ground leasing
• Issuance of title insurance and title claims representation

In addition to her real estate practice, she also has built a robust business law practice that includes the structuring of new entities, preparation of business agreements and asset-based transactions. Her business law practice includes:

• Purchase and sale of corporate stock and purchase and sale of assets
• Preparation of partnership, joint venture, and buy-sell agreements
• Limited liability company operating agreements
• Formation of new entities
• Employment agreements
• Licensing agreements

Stone is a founding member and past chairperson of the Executive Council of Legal Aid Services of Broward County/Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida. She currently serves as chair of the Innocence Project of Florida and co-chair of its annual “Stand Up for Innocence” event held in Broward County.

These are some of the reasons that we named Stone to our Florida & Gulf Coast grouping of Lawyers in Real Estate. These are real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in both their practice and the larger community.