Representative Matters

• Successfully represented a major oil company with respect to its lease of approximately 250 gas stations to a national, publicly traded oil and refining company.
   
• Representing the owner/developer of a new shopping center in Glendora, Calif. Handling leases, entitlements and land use issues.
   
• Representing a well-known celebrity in a construction defect dispute against a contractor in connection with a multi-million dollar Los Angeles residence.
   
• Represented private equity client in its acquisition of fee-owned and ground leased regional shopping centers in California, Oregon and Washington totaling more than $600 million.
   
• Represent private developer firm in connection with the acquisition, finance and sale of office buildings in California and Arizona.
   
• Represented MGM MIRAGE in connection with transactions for the purchase of vacant land on the Las Vegas Strip for an aggregate purchase price of $575 million.
   
• Represents commercial and residential clients, such as Galpin Motors, Costco Wholesale, Kilroy Realty, Lennar, J. H. Snyder Company, Home Depot and Lee Homes, in acquiring, entitling and developing urban development projects in and around Southern California.
   
• Representing a prominent local bank in connection to a $42 million loan secured by a regional shopping center in Valencia, Calif. and a $20.7 million construction loan in Santa Barbara, Calif.
   
• Represented a major Las Vegas casino and hotel owner in connection to the financing for the construction and development of CityCenter, one of the largest, privately funded mixed use of developments in the United States.
   
• Represented the anchor tenant in its lease of 400,000 square feet in a prestigious Los Angeles high rise office tower (the largest dollar lease in L.A. County history).