Conveyance Law, PLC is a transactional law firm in Des Moines, Iowa. We work alongside developers, lenders, and business owners on the commercial real estate, public-private financing, tax credit, construction, and business law transactions that shape Central Iowa.
The firm exists to fill a specific gap in the market: the combination of sophisticated transactional depth and boutique responsiveness. Large firms carry overhead that translates into rates, timelines, and processes that don’t serve smaller and mid-market clients well. Generalist firms don’t carry the depth that complex deal structures actually require. Conveyance Law was built to do the kind of work that has historically required a downtown high-rise, without the layered staffing and the billing model that comes with it.
About us
Our approach
Developers, lenders, and business owners working on the transactions that shape Central Iowa deserve a legal partner who thinks like they do: strategically, practically, and without wasted motion. That conviction shapes every part of how the firm operates.
We work as members of the project team, not adjacent to it. We show up early, understand the business objectives driving the transaction, and structure our work around getting to the right outcome efficiently. Our drafting is informed by what the architects, accountants, contractors, and lenders on the project actually need from the documents. Clients don’t receive form documents with their name swapped in. They receive agreements built for their specific deal, reviewed against what they’re actually trying to accomplish, and explained in language that allows them to make confident decisions.
Our process
How we work
Sophisticated, not bloated
Large-firm counsel without large-firm overhead. The depth of analysis a complex transaction requires, with the responsiveness a working deal demands.
Documents built for the real world
Drafting that’s meant to close the deal and to hold up through the years that follow; through changes in ownership, changes in market, changes in personnel, and changes in City Hall.
Flat fees, wherever possible
Cost certainty for our clients on most engagements, with transparent arrangements where the work is genuinely variable. Predictable pricing removes the hesitation that causes clients at other firms to avoid calling their attorney with a quick question.
Built for Iowa
Iowa real estate and development practice has its own statutory framework, its own institutional players, and its own working customs. The firm was built around that specificity from the outset.
The team
Our attorneys
Larry James
Founder · Real estate, development, and business law
Larry leads the firm’s real estate and business law practice. He partners with developers, commercial tenants, and lenders on transactions ranging from site assemblage and entitlements through tax credit closings and Iowa local counsel engagements for Am Law 100 firms.
Nick Hudson
Construction law and commercial real estate
Nick advises clients on construction law and commercial real estate transactions. Raised in a family construction business, he brings a “dirt-to-desk” perspective to contract drafting and risk allocation that’s rare in the construction bar.
Get Started
Working with our firm
If you’re considering a project, structuring a transaction, or working through a problem that’s developing, we’d be glad to talk. The decisions made early in a deal compound, and engaging the right legal counsel before the structure is locked in is meaningfully more valuable than fixing things later.
Conveyance Law, PLC | Des Moines, Iowa | 515.519.3600
