Who’s Whoin L.A.Law

July 22, 2013 • An Advertising Supplement to the Los Angeles Business Journal

This special advertising supplement did not involve the reporting or editing staff of the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Angelenos to Know in Real Estate Law

HAVING the right real estate attor-ney can be one of the most cru-cial business decisions you and

your organization make. Real estatetransactions can be complex and difficultto navigate without the right legal assis-tance -- a seasoned real estate attorneycan walk a business (that is looking to

lease, buy or sell) through the legalprocess for the best possible result.Fortunately, there are some stellar realestate attorneys in Los Angeles. We haveprofiled this year’s top selections here,along with some basic information abouttheir careers, practice and some relevantrecent successes they've achieved.

Congratulations to the attorneys whomade this list and thank you forworking to keep our local businesseson the right track!

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WHO’S WHO IN REAL ESTATE LAW

Richard F. DavisChair, LA Real Estate PracticeGreenberg Traurig LLP

Years practicing: 42Years with firm: 13Education: JD: UCLA,School of Law; AB: UCLA.

Rick Davis is the chair ofLos Angeles Real EstatePractice and also the Co-Chair of the firm’sHospitality Group. He

focuses his practice on U.S. and internationalhotel, resort and hospitality real estate, businessand finance law.

Examples of work: Davis has represented manynationally and internationally known owners,developers, investors, operators and lenders in allaspects of the hotel, resort and hospitality indus-tries. He has been involved in internationaltransactions involving more than seventeencountries with particular emphasis on Mexico,Latin America, the Caribbean, the People’sRepublic of China, South East Asia and Europe.

Clients include Host Hotels and Resorts, Intrawest,Princess Acquisition Company, and many others.

William DelvacPrincipal/PartnerArmbruster Goldsmith & Delvac

Years practicing: 30Years with firm: 4Education: JD: UCLASchool of Law; Undergrad:UC Irvine.

Over the past 30 years,William Delvac has devel-oped a sterling reputationnot only as one of

Southern California’s leading land use lawlawyers but also as an expert on historic preser-vation, cultural resources and affordable housing.

Example of work: Delvac played a critical role inthe transformation and resurgence of DowntownLos Angeles through his work for AEG in thedevelopment of Staples Center, LA Live and theplanned $1.4 billion Farmer’s Field andConvention Center Modernization Project, whichwill further expand the major entertainment hubthat has brought thousands of jobs and touristsand scores of businesses and restaurants to thearea—and made it a cool place to live. As a criti-cal part of that project, he was instrumental inthe passage of SB 292 — legislation that requiresCEQA challenges to the stadium to be fileddirectly in the Court of Appeal and completedwithin 6 months — not the usual 2-3 years.

Clients include AEG, Academy Museum ofMotion Pictures, Target, and projects such as1601 N. Vine Street, Target and the CenturyPlaza Hotel.

Lewis G. FeldmanPartnerGoodwin Procter LLP

Years practicing: 31Years with firm: 7Education: JD: Universityof California, Davis; BA:University of California,Santa Cruz.

Lewis G. Feldman found-ed California’s offices forGoodwin Procter in 2006

and serves as the Chair of Goodwin Procter’s LosAngeles office and heads the firm’s Public/PrivateDevelopment Practice. He is considered to beamong the nation’s leading real estate and pub-lic/private finance attorneys, specializing instructuring, entitling and executing large-scalefinancings for real estate industry participantsand the public sector.

Example of work: Feldman represents HeritageFields El Toro, LLC in the multi-billion dollar rede-velopment and reuse of the former El ToroMilitary Airbase in Irvine, known as The GreatPark Neighborhoods. Originally purchased fromthe Federal government for $660 million, HeritageFields has been obtaining regulatory approvals forover 9,000 residential units, commercial buildings,retail facilities, educational institutions, the largesturban park in the United States and its commer-cial and recreational amenities.

Clients include AEG, Westfield Corporation,Panama-Buena Vista Union School District, andmany others.

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Dale GoldsmithPrincipal/PartnerArmbruster Goldsmith & Delvac

Years practicing: 28Years with firm: 9Education: JD: Universityof Chicago Law School;Undergrad: Yale.

Dale Goldsmith specializesin land use, planning andzoning, and compliancewith the California

Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). He representsdevelopers, institutions and businesses that needgovernmental approvals to develop their proper-ty. Goldsmith is working on, or has receivedapprovals in the past 18 months, for a large num-ber of very significant projects totaling over20,000,000 square feet. Several of his projects aretransit-oriented developments that take advan-tage of the expanding transit infrastructure.

Example of work: Goldsmith helped USC obtainapprovals for its University Park CampusDevelopment Plan, which consists of 2,500,000square feet of academic uses, 350,000 s.f. ofretail, 2,135,000 s.f. of student housing, a165,000-s.f. hotel, and an 80,000-s.f. K-8 labora-tory school. This huge project will enable USCto accomplish its academic mission and willhelp continue the revitalization of a long down-trodden area.

Clients include USC, AEG, Lincoln Property Co.,Century Plaza Hotel, The Roberts Companiesand many others.

Jonathan GrossManaging PartnerGilchrist & Rutter PC

Years practicing: 33Years with firm: 30Education: JD: StanfordUniversity Law School;Undergrad: Amherst College.

For more than 30 years,Jonathan Gross has han-dled some of SouthernCalifornia’s largest and

most complex leasing transactions, including thenegotiation of leases totaling more than 10 millionsquare feet of space in downtown Los Angeles, as ithas transformed into the vibrant center it is today.

Example of work: In a 10-year lease transaction val-ued in excess of $100 million, Gross representedMPG Office Trust, the owner of the 54-story NorthTower at Wells Fargo Center, an icon of the BunkerHill complex in downtown Los Angeles. Grossnegotiated all aspects of the complex lease andancillary documents for the 267,181-square-footlease to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association.Also in the same tower for MPG, he representedthe owner in negotiating a lease extension for the268,268-square-foot Gibson, Dunn & Crutcheroffices. Nearby, in a lease transaction valued inexcess of $15 million, Gross represented the ownerof One California Plaza on Bunker Hill in the40,000–square-foot lease to Towers Watson.

Clients include Bayside District Corporation, TheEquitable-Nissei Figueroa Company, RREEFAmerica, Lend Lease Real Estate, and develop-ment and ownership entities of JP Morgan andGoldman Sachs, among many others.

Timi A. HallemChairManatt Phelps & Phillips LLP

Years practicing: 40Years with firm: 10Education: JD: UCLA; AB:Smith College.

A leader in the areas ofreal estate and hospitalitylaw, Timi Hallem has hadgreat success representingmajor developers, lenders,

owners and operators in all economic climates.She has been counseling real estate and hospital-ity clients since she first began her legal career.

Example of work: Hallem recently represented realestate investment firm Kennedy-Wilson in itsacquisition of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Lake Tahoefrom a consortium of four lenders. The 5-starhotel on the Northstar ski slope resort was con-structed for over $300 million, but had beenrepossessed after the developer defaulted on a$165 million loan. In December 2012, Kennedy-Wilson purchased the hotel in a transaction thatspanned about seven weeks from negotiating thepurchase to closing the acquisition. The propertyincluded 23 completed condominium units anda parcel approved for the construction of addi-tional units. It is subject to multiple sets ofrestrictions and agreements governing commonfacilities, such as a gondola to access the hotelfrom Northstar Village.

Clients include Lowe Enterprises, Kennedy-Wilson, the FSLIC, Wells Fargo, the PalmieriCompany and many others.

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CongratulationsShiraz Tangrifor being named to the

Los Angeles Business Journal’s

Who’s Who in Real Estate Law list

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WHO’S WHO IN REAL ESTATE LAW

Jerry NeumanPartnerSheppard Mullin

Years practicing: 26Years with firm: 4Education: JD: ColumbiaUniversity; BS: Universityof Arizona.

Jerry Neuman is consideredto be one of the preeminentland-use, environmentaland government law attor-

neys in Los Angeles with expertise in governmen-tal, land use, real estate, environmental, administra-tive, and public finance law. The services he pro-vides range from managing the entire entitlementprocess, including overseeing technical consultantsand presiding as primary negotiator with govern-mental agencies, to reviewing previously negotiatedentitlement documentation with a view towardsidentifying problem areas which may affect thetiming of the project’s development.

Example of work: Neuman has been the leadnegotiator and project coordinator for theMillennium Partners’, Capitol Records proposed1.2 million square foot development, the multi-module retail/entertainment center atHollywood and Highland, the Walt DisneyCompany’s Grand Central Terminal CorporateCampus, the 110 acre Burbank Empire Center,the Airbus A380 airport readiness program,Element Powers efforts to create the world’slargest combined solar and wind facility, and themulti-modal transit facility at Del Mar Station.

Clients include Millennium Partners and ArgentVentures, among others.

Dean C. PappasPartnerGoodwin Procter LLP

Years practicing: 22Years with firm: 7Education: JD: USC; BS:USC.

Dean Pappas is a partnerin Goodwin Procter’sBusiness Law Departmentand a member of the RealEstate, REITs & Real Estate

Capital Markets Group. He has extensive experi-ence with real estate and corporate transactionsand his practice involves structuring, negotiat-ing, drafting and closing various real estate andcorporate transactions, including joint ventureformation (partnerships and limited liabilitycompanies), merger, acquisition and dispositiontransactions, construction, mortgage and mezza-nine loan transactions, public contracting, leas-ing and other various transactions.

Example of work: Assisting the San MarinoUnified School District, in the sale of theStoneman Elementary School. The School waspurchased by the City of San Marino, who hadpreviously ground leased the property from theSchool District and purchased the property pur-suant to the ground lease. The purchase pricewas actually $6M, but the first $5M was paidunder the ground lease.

Clients include San Marino Unified SchoolDistrict, New Standard Equities Inc., Duke Realty,Essex Portfolio LP, Catellus Prefco, DS Town &Country LLC, Primestor Development, and JFShea, among others.

Douglas A. PrawPartnerGoodwin Procter LLP

Years practicing: 11Years with firm: 7Education: JD:Southwestern University;BS: Washington Universityin St. Louis.

Doug Praw is a partner inGoodwin Procter’sBusiness Law Department

and a member of the Real Estate, REITs & RealEstate Capital Markets Group. He has extensiveexperience in a wide range of real estate and pub-lic finance matters, specializing in development,public finance and acquisition/disposition work.Praw provides counsel to the spectrum of realestate investors, from developers, owners and bor-rowers to underwriters and municipalities, specialdistricts and other governmental agencies.

Example of work: Recently, Praw worked with AEGto obtain the financing approvals for Farmer’sField. The downtown corridor was compliment-ed by the addition of a 395 room Marriott andResidence Inn, which Praw also worked on. Hisefforts to redevelop and improve downtown con-tinue with his ongoing work with The YellinCompanies on the redevelopment of GrandCentral Market.

Clients include CommonWealth Partners LLC,The Yellin Companies, Westfield Corporation,Oceangate Property, GL Bruno Associates, PrimeProperty Fund, and Emerson College of Boston,Massachusetts, among others.

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