Stradling

Our real estate attorneys provide innovative and effective solutions to the full range of real estate issues facing our clients.

We understand and respond to our clients' need to receive prompt, cost-effective, practical advice. We serve not only the real estate development and investment community, but also handle the corporate facilities and other real estate needs of our entrepreneurial and traditional business clients.

Growing beyond our Orange County roots, the firm's real estate practice has expanded to include transactions throughout the United States and abroad, providing service in the following areas:

Corporate Real Estate
We understand the importance of meeting the demanding and time-sensitive real estate needs of businesses, including those that are expanding, consolidating, relocating, merging, or being acquired. Our attorneys assist these companies with their real estate law needs, providing legal oversight in such matters as leasing, property acquisition, financings, letters of credit, partnerships, limited liability companies, public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions.

Through close interaction with our corporate attorneys, we are uniquely qualified to identify and manage the real estate needs of companies throughout their life cycle, from startup to public company.

Traditional Real Estate Transactions
Our traditional real estate practice involves the representation of retail, industrial, office and residential developers, landlords and tenants in all aspects of real property acquisition, financing, development, construction, leasing, management, syndication, exchange, and disposition.

The firm has developed specialized expertise in matters related to shopping center development, including site acquisition, disposition, regulatory approvals, joint ventures, finance, leasing, operations, reciprocal access and easement agreements, CC&Rs, and tenant disputes.

We also have specialized expertise in transactions involving municipal bond-financed projects, as well as medical office, assisted living and other healthcare-related projects.

Finance
We represent both lenders and borrowers in real property secured lending, including construction, permanent and mezzanine financing, loan participations, securitized debt, loan assumptions, workouts, foreclosures, and receiverships.

Ranch Owners Secure $26 Million Arbitration Judgment Against Oil & Gas Co.

Highgate Hospitiality Invests in American Hotel Income Properties

Cannabis Grow Facility Defends Against District Attorney Action

AppFolio Completes Acquisition of Dynasty Marketplace, Inc.

HOM Sotheby’s Completes Sale to Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty

Real Estate Investment Firm Successfully Navigates Environmental Contamination Issues in Acquisition of San Diego Properties

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California Appellate Court Holds that Increased Student Enrollment Subject to CEQA

California’s First Appellate District has ruled that discretionary decisions by a local agency that increase student enrollment constitute a “project” for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”). The case, Save Berkeley Neighborhoods v The Regents of the University of California, sustains the traditionally broad definition of a “project” in the context of CEQA by rejecting the argument that an increase in student enrollment must be analyzed only when it is concomitant with a physical development.

California Appellate Court Rules Development Agreements Do Not Per Se Extend All Terms of a Vesting Tentative Map

Although the rights conferred by a vesting tentative map are generally for a period not to exceed two years, local agencies may, however, extend the benefits conferred by a tentative map by way of a development agreement. A California appellate court case has ruled, in the case of North Murrieta Community, LLC v. City of Murrieta, that when extending the benefits initially provided by a tentative vesting map, the development agreement need not extend all benefits originally afforded by the tentative vesting map.

New Case Limits Local Agency Obligations Under CEQA

In general, the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) applies to “discretionary projects proposed to be carried out or approved by public agencies” (California Public Resources Code Section 21080(a)), but are the post-approval decisions of the local agency, including the decision to not abandon a project, subsequent discretionary approvals that also require CEQA analysis? In a recent case before the California Sixth Appellate District, the court answered both questions in the negative, rejecting an argument that would have significantly increased the administrative burden for local agencies.

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Stradling Adds Real Estate Shareholder Robert Briseño in Newport Beach

Newport Beach, CA - Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth is pleased to welcome Robert C. Briseño as a shareholder in the firm’s Newport Beach office and a member of the Real Estate group. Mr. Briseño brings extensive experience representing developers, landlords and tenants in all aspects of real estate transactions. He joins the firm from Theodora Oringher.

AppFolio Acquires Advanced AI Tech Provider Dynasty Marketplace

Stradling advised AppFolio Inc., a Santa Barbara provider of cloud-based business software for the real estate and legal markets, in its acquisition of Dynasty Marketplace Inc. Buying Dynasty Marketplace is expected to enhance and strengthen AppFolio’s artificial intelligence products and services for the real estate vertical market.

10 Stradling Attorneys Named to 2018 Super Lawyers List

Stradling is pleased to announce that 10 of its lawyers have been recognized as 2018 Super Lawyers.

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Real Estate

Ranch Owners Secure $26 Million Arbitration Judgment Against Oil & Gas Co.

Highgate Hospitiality Invests in American Hotel Income Properties

Cannabis Grow Facility Defends Against District Attorney Action

AppFolio Completes Acquisition of Dynasty Marketplace, Inc.

HOM Sotheby’s Completes Sale to Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty

Real Estate Investment Firm Successfully Navigates Environmental Contamination Issues in Acquisition of San Diego Properties

California Appellate Court Holds that Increased Student Enrollment Subject to CEQA

California Appellate Court Rules Development Agreements Do Not Per Se Extend All Terms of a Vesting Tentative Map

New Case Limits Local Agency Obligations Under CEQA

Stradling Adds Real Estate Shareholder Robert Briseño in Newport Beach

AppFolio Acquires Advanced AI Tech Provider Dynasty Marketplace

10 Stradling Attorneys Named to 2018 Super Lawyers List

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