Best Lawyers Near You in Los Angeles, California for Real Estate Law

Keith Allen-Niesen is a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office and co-chair of the infrastructure practice. He has a broad range of transactional experience and oversees major business litigation, business transactions, land use and development matters. Keith has extensive experience in the acquisition, development and sale of hotels, resorts, golf courses, restaurants, office buildings, residential subdivisions, shopping centers and industrial sites, including transactions involving ...

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Mark Birnbaum, a partner, focuses his practice on real estate and real estate finance. He works with numerous lenders and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) servicers on a national basis with respect to real property secured loan workouts and Real Estate Owned (REO) dispositions, including loan restructures, modifications, assumptions, forbearances, discounted payoffs, judicial and non-judicial foreclosures, bankruptcies, guarantor actions and receivership appointments. He also work...

Susan J. Booth is the head of the West Coast Real Estate Group of Holland & Knight and served on the firm's Directors Committee. Ms. Booth counsels domestic and international commercial banks, pension funds, private equity funds, REITs and developers on a variety of real estate matters including portfolio loans and CMBs, secured lending transactions (acquisition, development, construction, revolving, permanent, mezzanine and Shari'ah compliant), co-lending and participation arrangements, ...

Kevin Brogan specializes in the trial of real estate and business cases, with a particular emphasis on eminent domain and inverse condemnation matters. He has substantial experience in the trial of jury and nonjury matters in state and federal courts, as well as before administrative tribunals and other forums. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Chair of its Foundation Board.

Edward Burg concentrates on real property litigation, inverse condemnation and eminent domain matters, and general trial and appellate practice. Ed regularly speaks and writes on eminent domain and real estate industry issues in the context of his active litigation practice.

Stevens A. Carey is a real estate attorney in Holland & Knight's Century City office. Mr. Carey focuses his practice on a broad range of transactional real estate matters, with an emphasis on joint ventures, workouts, financings, acquisitions and dispositions. Mr. Carey is a contributing editor for The Real Estate Finance Journal , a member of the editorial board of The Practical Real Estate Lawyer , a past member of the editorial board of Bloomberg BNA Real Estate Law and Industry Report...

Kevin M. Ehrhart is a Real Estate partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kevin represents real estate investors, capital providers, owners, developers and others in all aspects of real estate related transactions. He focuses on capital investment directed to real estate and real estate operating companies, financings within all segments of the capital stack, joint ventures, property and operating company acquisitions. His practice has an emphasis on the acquisition and disposition of commercial...

Tom Fileti is the co-chair of the firm's U.S. Real Estate Group. He represents a broad spectrum of clients in connection with investments in, and the financing, development, operation, and disposition of, real estate assets in California and throughout the U.S. Mr. Fileti’s practice emphasizes real estate finance transactions and credit facilities of all types; transactions involving REITs; acquisition and disposition of real estate assets, loans, and portfolios; matters involving the f...

Clients closing real estate finance deals rely on Christine Fitzgerald to not only identify risk and potential issues in a transaction but, more importantly, to offer solutions tailored to the business needs of her clients and to create a viable path forward for the deal despite any challenges. Christy is chair of the firm's West Coast Real Estate practice, recognized as a top practice by U.S. News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms," which reports that clients note Katten is a "firm of cho...

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Since graduating from UCLA Law School in 1973 (Order of the Coif), James Goldman has represented clients in trials and appeals in state and federal courts, regulatory proceedings (involving the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, California and Arizona State Boards of Accountancy, Federal Trade Commission, California Department of Corporations, NYSE, NASD, and FINRA), arbitrations, and mediations. His practice has focused on complex commercial litigation involvin...

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Timi Hallem is a partner in Manatt’s Los Angeles office and a member of the real estate practice group. With over 30 years of real estate law experience, she has earned a reputation as the lawyer to whom clients turn with their most challenging projects. Timi’s practice covers all aspects of real property and hotel ownership and development, including acquisition, entitlement, development, financing, leasing and disposition. She has a depth of experience in all types of real estat...

J. David Hitchcock is a Shareholder in the Los Angeles office of Buchalter, a member of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group, and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Cannabis & Hemp Industry Law Group. Mr. Hitchcock’s practice focuses on real estate acquisitions and dispositions, loan originations, loan workouts and restructurings, loan sales, secured real estate finance, joint ventures, and general real estate matters. He has extensive experience representing clients in all areas o...

William H. Jackson III joined Pircher in 1989 and has focused his practice on the acquisition, disposition and financing of high-level, institutional quality, real estate. In the last year alone, the transactions he’s represented have totaled well over $1 billion. Jackson has built a reputable client list throughout his career which now includes some of the largest private equity investors on the West Coast, the largest fund investing in emerging managers, the largest family office base...

Alex P. Jacobs joined Pircher in 2003 and is the youngest member of the firm’s Executive Committee, overseeing the practice at the highest level and implementing firm-wide initiatives. In this role, he was integral to the recruitment and hire of partners from Sidley Austin LLP to support the formation of Pircher’s institutional lending group. He’s maintained a roster of top-tier clients over the years which has included Equinix, Inc., Starwood Capital Group, The Yucaipa Comp...

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Robert Keane is a real estate partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He concentrates his practice primarily on the representation of private equity firms, opportunity funds, domestic and international companies, investment banks, commercial banks, non-regulated lenders and pension funds in real estate-related equity investments, joint venture formations, lending, acquisitions and dispositions and debt restructuring, workouts and reorganizations. Robert is one of only f...

Jim Kousoulas guides his real estate clients through complex commercial loan transactions and litigation management strategies. Jim provides trusted counsel to banks, private equity firms, private lenders, debt funds, life insurance companies, and other corporate clients related to their commercial lending and transactional real estate matters. He has over 25 years of experience helping clients through a variety of complicated commercial loan transactions, including commercial mortgage-backed...

Bryan C. LeRoy is a partner in our Real Estate practice group and is based in our Los Angeles office. Bryan represents private and public entities in zoning, land use, environmental compliance, energy and infrastructure and other property development matters. Clients seek his counsel on property rights, entitlement strategy and the processing of land use permits, securing zoning approvals and managing environmental concerns and other project impacts, particularly with regard to requirements o...

Matthew is a former in-house counsel at a large land developer. Matthew's experience enables him to understand the economic, legal, and practical challenges facing developers in California. Matthew's practice involves acquisitions, sales, and development for institutional and private clients, including life insurance companies, homebuilders, developers, major domestic and foreign banks, and other financial institutions. Matthew has substantial experience in structuring, negotiating, and docum...

Gregg Loubier is a partner in the firm’s Finance group in the Los Angeles office. Gregg concentrates on real estate finance transactions nationwide, including portfolio and securitized commercial mortgage finance, construction finance, bridge lending, mezzanine lending and loan servicing, as well as the workout and resolution of distressed debt and exercise of creditor remedies. Gregg also focuses on the acquisition, financing, leasing, management and disposition of real estate assets. ...

Few appellate specialists have successfully tried a jury case. Robin Meadow tried jury cases for over 20 years at a major commercial firm, while also handling appeals, in many fields of law. Over time, he realized that it’s nearly impossible to excel at both trials and appeals, because the skill sets and practice rhythms differ completely and often clash. Concluding that his greatest strengths lay in appellate work, Robin joined GMSR in 1994, handling his last trial late that year. Robi...

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Tom Muller is a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office and co-chair of the real estate practice group. He assists clients, including real estate investment trusts and offshore investors, in the acquisition, disposition, joint venture, ground leasing, like-kind exchange, development and financing of properties ranging from raw land to industrial and office properties to hotels to portfolios of regional shopping centers. Tom also has substantial experience in land use regulation and rea...