Shartsis Friese LLP

Real Estate

Counsel

Tess Brandwein takes a collaborative approach with clients to achieve their real estate transaction priorities – from leases and sales to financing and property management.

Tess works with institutional and non-institutional property owners, developers and real estate investment firms with office, industrial and retail leasing, acquisitions and dispositions and financings. She has over ten years of experience negotiating commercial leases on behalf of landlord and tenant companies.  Through her collaborative approach, she learns each client’s priorities and needs in order to achieve the most desired outcome in any deal.

During law school, Tess clerked for the Honorable James A. Robertson in the San Francisco Superior Court. Before law school, Tess taught middle school English and History through Teach for America.

NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area Chapter: Board of Directors, Member, Governmental Affairs Committee, Co-Chair; Urban Land Institute, Member; Commercial Real Estate Women, San Francisco Chapter, Member; Teach For America, Alumni Recruiter

University of California College of Law, San Francisco (Hastings); J.D., 2014 | Loyola Marymount University; M.A., 2010 | University of Wisconsin – Madison; B.A., 2008