Real Estate Transactions, Financing & Taxation

We represent buyers, sellers, developers, lenders, and investors in commercial real estate transactions throughout California. Our attorneys structure and negotiate acquisitions, dispositions, and financings with a focus on tax efficiency and practical execution.

Commercial & Residential Leasing

We represent clients in commercial and residential leasing matters; negotiating and drafting leases for landlords, tenants, and management companies, addressing lease compliance and operational issues, and handling leasing disputes.

Joint Ventures & Syndications

We represent companies through the full life cycle of real estate ownership, including the creation of ownership structures, syndications, due diligence, development, operation, and disposition.

Our attorneys have represented numerous companies in joint ventures with pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and publicly traded insurance companies.

Due Diligence & Entitlement Approvals

Santa Barbara and the Central Coast are among the most challenging locations in the country to secure and defend land use entitlements. Our attorneys have a proven track record of obtaining and defending consequential land use approvals in highly politicized environments throughout Santa Barbara County.

We regularly handle matters involving CEQA, general plan amendments, zoning changes, coastal permits, lot line adjustments, subdivision maps, development agreements, and annexations.

Real Estate & Land Use Litigation

Our litigators resolve real property disputes including judicial and administrative appeals of land use decisions, quiet title actions, unlawful detainer proceedings, and easement disputes.

We have successfully prosecuted and defended claims before municipal, county, state, and federal decision-making bodies, including the California Coastal Commission.