Dean Pappas

Mr. Pappas’s recent experience includes representing:

• Essex Property Trust in its $15.4 billion merger with BRE Properties, creating the nation’s only publicly traded West Coast multifamily REIT and the third-largest multifamily REIT in the country
• Clarion in connection to the formation of a joint venture with an affiliate of Alliance Residential Company in the acquisition of approximately five acres of land with existing commercial improvements in the City of Laguna Niguel and the $107.7 million development on the property of a luxury multifamily/apartment project
• A major financial institution in connection with the acquisition of a portfolio of 15 retail centers which included 147 assets, composed of industrial, multifamily, hotels and office buildings for approximately $2.2 billion
• A major international real estate advisor in documenting and implementing its multi-family equity up-front joint venture program throughout the U.S. and closing over $1 billion of multifamily joint venture transactions through this program over the past three years
• Primestor Development, Inc. in the formation of a platform joint venture with Community Retail Development Fund valued at $185 million to develop and operate both core and non-core retail projects, including the Azalea Regional Shopping Center in South Gate, California
• MacFarlane Urban Realty Company, LLC in the closing of the $950 million real estate joint venture for the development of the LA Live JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Ritz-Carlton. The project will consist of a 54-story building comprised of an 877-room JW Marriott, a 124-room Ritz-Carlton, related hotel ballroom space and 224 Ritz-Carlton condos
• JF Shea in the formation of a development joint venture with Ivanhoe Cambridge. The joint venture plans to develop Hitachi Transit Village, which will be a 648-unit multifamily project in San Jose, California valued at approximately $172 million
• Brookfield Office Properties in connection with the acquisition of seven downtown LA high-rise office buildings from Maguire Properties, Inc. valued at $2.2 billion