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REAL ESTATE GROUP REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS DEVELOPMENT, JOINT VENTURE AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (P3) DEALS Represented a family-owned commercial real estate company in a 99-year ground lease for the development of its approximately seven-acre property located in Santa Ana, California, including selecting a developer and addressing complex structuring, title, financing and development issues over the course of a more than five-year development process
Part of Holland & Knight's Southern California real estate team, our Newport Beach attorneys offer expansive market knowledge and deep experience representing buyers and sellers, operators and capital partners on real estate projects primarily throughout the U.S. across all asset classes.
WHO WE REPRESENT • Operating Partners/Investors • Investment Fund Managers • Property Owners/Operators
• Capital Providers
HOW WE CAN HELP
Construction
Acquisitions and Dispositions
Distressed Assets
Joint Ventures
Ground Leading and Commercial Leasing
Represented a private equity firm with investment strategies in media, real estate, venture capital and other alternative assets in its recapitalization of an office building in Santa Monica, California, a deal valued at more than $120 million; recapitalization was achieved by means of the purchase of a 50 percent equity interest in the project by a fund sponsor based in Washington, D.C.; negotiated the purchase and sale agreement and the joint venture agreement, as well as the assumption of the existing loan Represented a Santa Ana-based shopping center developer in two separate joint ventures with private parties involving land in Riverside County: 1) acquisition of a vacant parcel of land and a joint venture for the development of an ethnic supermarket to be operated by the client’s partner and 2) acquisition of a vacant parcel zoned for office use and its reentitlement for industrial development by a joint venture formed between the developer and the land seller
• Developers
Development
Represented a public university in San Marcos, California, with the negotiation of a P3 arrangement to develop an extended learning facility for the university to construct a building with retail on the lower floors that will be owned by the developer, along with classroom and educational space on the upper levels that will be owned by the university
Financing
Exchanges
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Represented the sponsor/asset management firm in connection with 1) an approximately $20 million acquisition of a hotel in Austin, Texas, and its repurposing as an apartment project and 2) five Austin-area deals that were negotiated as a joint venture relationship at the sponsor/operator level and prepared partnership agreements for the syndication of the transactions Represented an investment management and development firm with more than $2 billion in assets under management, focused on urban multifamily real estate, in connection with 1) the purchase of California properties located in Gardena, Costa Mesa and Irvine, each involving the negotiation of purchase agreements contemplating complex entitlement processes as closing contingencies and analysis of underlying development rights and obligations, title, zoning and survey issues and 2) financing and refinancing of construction and acquisition loans for property in California and Oregon, including complex cross-collateralization and related title issues Represented a private team of investors in the pursuit and development of property in Guam for residential development, including negotiation of initial predevelopment funding arrangements and structuring of the land contribution investment by property owner