SUMMARY
Pablo De Leon is Senior Counsel in the firm’s Pasadena office. His practice focuses on commercial real estate and business transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, commercial and ground leasing, real estate finance, development and operational agreements, and entity structuring and governance.
With more than 20 years of legal experience, Mr. De Leon represents and advises property owners, developers, landlords, tenants, lenders, businesses, public agencies, and special districts. He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, leases, loan and security documents, operating agreements, assignments, amendments, and other complex commercial agreements. His work includes transactional due diligence, title and survey review, financing and closing coordination, and advising on contractual obligations and risk allocation.
Mr. De Leon earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He was recognized in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Minority Attorneys.
EXPERIENCE
Representative Transactions (experience at previous firms)
- Represented purchaser/borrower in an approximately $450 million portfolio acquisition involving 19 multifamily properties with mortgage, mezzanine, and equity financing components.
- Represented lender in an approximately $340 million mortgage portfolio transaction involving 55 multifamily and office properties across four states.
- Represented TIC investors in a Section 1031 exchange involving the sale of a California office property and acquisition of a $46 million, 352-unit Texas apartment community.