Services

  • Facilitating decision making and conflict resolution. 

  • Managerial development. 

  • Family compensation and dividend policies. 

  • Facilitating family conferences. 

  • Dispute resolution.

  • Assistance in generational transitions. 

  • Development of business and family governance structures. 

  • Fiduciary appointments as Special Masters or Receivers.

  • Turnaround, restructuring and crisis management. specialists.

  • Bankruptcy and other estate administration. 

  • Advisory / Consulting Services to Lenders and Borrowers. 

  • Lenders – specific loan workout or portfolio management; asset impairment valuations; develop hold / exit strategies.

  • Borrowers – develop strategies for client during negotiations with Lender; develop recapitalization plans, exit strategies; management transitions.

  • Expert witness assignments. 

  • Assistance in establishing, articulating, and attaining goals when presented.

 

Additional Services

Through our long standing relationships, we are able to connect clients to additional third party services in such areas as:  

  • Shopping center management

  • Multifamily management

  • Office building management 

  • Real estate brokerage and leasing

  • Hotel management

By retaining Independent Third party professionals, HLA is able to avoid the potential conflicts of interest that could be caused when Receivers are employed by Property Managers or Brokers who are then retained to provide services to the Receivership.

Advisory Services

HLA principals have more than 100 years of experience in stabilizing, managing and / or disposing of small or large real estate projects. 

HLA acts as an active partner in evaluating options and creating strategic plans that maximize value for all parties. The firm’s roles include asset operations, financial management, marketing, leasing and dispositions. HLA principals have managed projects across the Southeast, including office buildings, single-family home developments, second home resort communities, failed condominium conversions, self-storage facilities, golf course developments, convenience store/gas stations, apartments, and shopping centers.

HLA, for example, continues to act as a Receiver for entities that initially controlled assets valued at more than $50 million. 

Several siblings, who had been in active litigation for three years, owned the entities equally. As the Receiver, HLA has increased the operating income from the assets by over $970,000 per year, settled six separate lawsuits and distributed $32MM to the litigants and presently has over $21MM under contract. The active management of the portfolio has conservatively increased the value of the assets by over $30MM.