Headquartered in Los Angeles, Glaser Weil Fink Howard Jordan & Shapiro LLP‘s real estate practice focuses on representing retail, office, and leisure investors and developers in large-scale sales, acquisitions, leases, and market repositioning. The firm also has extensive experience representing lenders in real estate financing transactions. Based in the firm’s Los Angeles office, Thomas Hanley III is the co-chair of the firm’s real estate practice group. Hanley III has extensive experience representing investors, joint venture partners, lenders, and developers in all aspects of purchases, sales, financings, lease agreements, and joint ventures. Also based in Los Angeles, Roger Howard’s real estate practice focuses on acquisitions, residential and commercial development, negotiation of ground leases, sales, restructuring, workouts, title issues, and leasing. Jason Grinnell provides strategic guidance to clients in Los Angeles, where the entertainment and real estate industries intersect.
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Key clients
- Nederlander Concerts Los Angeles, LLC
- DMDE Properties, LP
- Palisade Group, LLC
- Blatteis & Schnur, Inc.
- Chartwell Properties
- Square Enix
- Merlone Geier Partners (MGP)
- County of Los Angeles
- Ocean West Capital Partners LP
- Upwork
Work highlights
Advised Palisade Group, LLC, on multiple joint venture and acquisition transactions across the United States, including office and industrial assets totaling more than $175 million.
Advised the County of Los Angeles on a range of significant real estate transactions in Marina del Ray and Malibu, including major sales, ground leases, and the redevelopment of the historic Gladstones restaurant.
Advised a real estate investment firm on the more than $120 million sale of a Los Angeles office property and more than $45 million industrial acquisition and lease structured to facilitate a related business acquisition.
Practice head
Thomas Hanley III
Other key lawyers
Roger Howard; Jason Grinnell