Mr Richard Mendelson > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Los Angeles (Downtown), United States > Lawyer Profile
Seyfarth Shaw LLP Offices
333 SOUTH HOPE STREET
SUITE 3900
LOS ANGELES , CA 90071-1406
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Mr Richard Mendelson
Work Department
Position
Partner
Career
Rich has particular knowledge in the areas of acquisitions, joint ventures, and financing transactions, as well as in workouts and restructurings. He has extensive experience in representing both domestic and international insurance companies and banks, public pension funds (and their advisors), private equity funds, and significant family-owned real estate companies in all matters relating to commercial property.
Rich has a keen perspective of both sides of a deal and provides clients with sophisticated deal structuring advice that is grounded by his constant presence in the marketplace on behalf of his clients. His practice operates across Seyfarth’s national platform which gives Rich a true pulse on deal trends throughout the country. He is quick to identify key issues and manages unexpected deal challenges with practical and focused advice.
Chambers & Partners ranks Rich highly in their Chambers USA guide, having referenced him as “a precise and skilled technician with a sterling track record,” and citing a market source describing him as a “really superb and responsive lawyer.” Rich is also listed in The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2013, 2016, 2018-2020) and in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) (2006, 2015-2020) for real estate law. He has been named a “Southern California Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers magazine (Thomson Reuters) (2005-2020), as the result of a research project conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Los Angeles magazines.
Education
- JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Cum laude
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, associate editor - AB, Rutgers University
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Government > Government contracts
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious