Distilling Legal Issues — Real Estate Mixes with Wine, Beer, and Spirits (from Annual Advanced Real Estate 2017) (Online Seminar)

A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of one session from the March 2017 live seminar, 21st Annual Advanced Real Estate Seminar.

Cosponsored with the Real Property Section of the Virginia State Bar

This seminar presented by Gifford Hampshire and Benjamin Leigh covers the following topics: 

• Flight 1: “An Idea Brewing” — The Start-Up Issues
  • Client comes with all the answers — This is just paper, right?
  • Site selection
  • Investment issues; securities concerns; crowdfunding
  • ABC licensing
  • Intellectual property
• Flight 2: “Buy Another Round” — The Party Gets Started
  • Adaptive re-use for the new joint
  • Tax credits and economic development (Vanish Brewing)
  • Title issues — old covenants; easements
• Flight 3: “Sour Tastes” — Land Use and Other Issues
  • Land use approvals vs. ABC approvals and blurred lines
  • Zoning hangovers — Is wine-making “manufacturing” (and is beer a normal part of farming)?
  • How “events” can get out of control; new regulations

FACULTY

Gifford R. Hampshire, Blankingship & Keith, P.C. / Fairfax
Benjamin D. Leigh, Atwill, Troxell & Leigh, P.C. / Leesburg