Real Estate

Experience

Transactional

• Represented Landlord in multiple leases of space within Mid-Peninsula life sciences parks.
• Represented pharmaceutical company in a series of acquisitions of properties on the Mid-Peninsula and in Southern California for creation of campuses, including construction of R&D, lab and manufacturing spaces.
• Served as primary real estate counsel to Fortune 500 company in multi-million dollar Class A office leasing and subleasing both domestically (in states such as California, Florida, Utah, New York and New Jersey) and internationally (in countries such as England, Poland, Australia, Canada, Turkey and South Africa).
• Represented owners in the disposition of a transit-oriented city block for residential development.
• Represented thousands of tech tenants in leases of office space throughout California, particularly San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
• Represented multi-state bank with more than 700 branches selling over $100 million in commercial properties.  Properties included vacant land, office properties, apartment buildings, retail space, industrial facilities and medical condominiums.
• Represented Bay Area investment fund in acquiring and financing over $40 million of properties throughout the United States, including the purchases of retail malls and an office building in Seattle.
• Represented local grocery store and national grocery chain in leasing and subleasing of their stores, including licenses for use of space within the stores.

Litigation

• Defended property owner in a $5 million claim in a private enforcement action for alleged Coastal Act violations.
• Successfully defended high tech startup company in a commercial eviction lawsuit brought by its landlord in San Francisco, claiming that the client’s office lease was illegal because the City of San Francisco’s zoning ordinances did not permit “office” use.  Client was awarded all of its fees and costs incurred in defending the eviction action in trial. 
• Represented a shopping center commercial landlord in a settlement of $3.5 million after its anchor tenant, a major grocery chain, ceased operations and abandoned the premises. 
• Negotiated the settlement of an acrimonious partnership dispute involving a series of tax-deferred exchanges.
• Prevailed in representation of a real estate fund manager accused of fraud and concealment.
• Successful in partition trial involving hundreds of acres of Redwoods affecting Butano State Park in San Mateo County.
• Successfully represented a large utility client before the California Energy Commission. 
• Prevailed in complex construction defect trial resulting in $7.5 million verdict plus attorney’s fees and interest.
• Successfully defended a property owner against claims for easements by prescription and necessity.  Affirmed on appeal.

REal Brief

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