Sheppard

Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental

Pamela Westhoff is an experienced transactional real estate lawyer valued by her clients for her creative business acumen and ability to get deals done regardless of the challenge.

Pam handles a wide variety of transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, commercial leases, financing and complex development. She has developed special expertise in corporate real estate, ground leasing and real estate deals involving telecommunications and broadcasting.

Clients look to Pam as a steady and strategic advocate who builds relationships and brings a business mindset and a creative, flexible negotiating style to every deal. She is a trusted counselor to a broad variety of successful real estate industry leaders, including institutional and portfolio investors, family offices, REITs, lenders and developers.

In her free time, Pam enjoys spending time outdoors. She has summited Mount Kilimanjaro and has run a marathon on every continent.

President of the Board of Directors, NAIOP (2021), President Southern California Chapter (2020), Board of Directors (Commercial Real Estate Development Association) Southern California Chapter (2010-Present), Executive Committee, 2013 Programs and Education Chair and 2012 UCLA/USC Real Estate Challenge Chair

Board Member, Leasing Committee Chair, American College of Real Estate Lawyers

Chair, Leasing Committee, American College of Real Estate Lawyers

Member, Executive Committee, California Lawyers Association Real Property Law Section

Chair, Board of Directors of the Building Owners and Managers Association of Greater Los Angeles (2005-2006); Board Member (1992-Present)

Program Chair, Practising Law Institute's Commercial Real Estate Financing: What Borrowers and Lenders Need to Know Now (2004-present)

Executive Committee, Real Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association

Board Member, UCLA Finance and Investment Conference (2001-2006)

Board Member, USC Crocker Symposium on Law and Business (2003-present); Planning Committee Chair (2007)

J.D., University of Southern California, 1986, Order of the Coif

M.B.A., University of Southern California, 1986, with highest honors

B.B.A., Loyola Marymount University, 1982, summa cum laude