Dean Pappas > Goodwin > Los Angeles, United States > Lawyer Profile
Goodwin Offices
601 S FIGUEROA STREET
LOS ANGELES, CA 90017
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Dean Pappas
Position
Partner
Career
Dean Pappas, a partner in Goodwin’s Real Estate Industry group, has extensive experience with real estate and corporate transactions. Mr. Pappas is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL).
Dean’s practice involves structuring, negotiating, drafting and closing various real estate and corporate transactions, including joint venture formation (partnerships and limited liability companies), merger, acquisition and disposition transactions, and construction, mortgage and mezzanine loans, and other various transactions.
Education
JD, University of Southern California (Order of the Coif) 1991 / BS, University of Southern California 1988
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
Often instructed by institutional investors, REITs and private equity funds, Goodwin‘s practice co-chairs Diana Brummer and John Ferguson maintain their stellar reputation in the New York market for sophisticated commercial transactions and construction and mezzanine financings. Its growing proptech and propsci practice continues to generate new instructions from tech, hospitality and leisure, and life science companies. Over on the West Coast, Dean Pappas and Jennifer Sung are the main contacts at the Los Angeles office.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Industry focus > Education
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)