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Education

  • J.D., Brooklyn Law School

  • B.A., University of Wisconsin 

Bar Admissions

  • California

  • New Jersey

  • New York

Memberships

  • Urban Land Institute (ULI)

  • Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Greater Los Angeles

Keith J. Pollock

Partner

Keith is a real estate partner who advises clients across the full real estate investment and development cycle. He helps institutional investors, national and regional owners and developers, holding companies, asset managers, and other sophisticated clients close complex single-asset and portfolio purchase and sale, financing, leasing, and development transactions across the United States. He has handled matters involving a diverse cross section of major and specialty asset types, including multifamily, retail, office, industrial, healthcare, and ground-up development projects.

Keith serves as primary outside real estate counsel for many of his clients, advising them from the earliest stages of strategic planning, through obtaining equity and financing, acquiring assets, subsequent leasing, and eventual company expansion. His experience across shifting market cycles enables Keith to anticipate and mitigate issues in the preliminary stages of a deal and further client business objectives even in the face of challenging economic conditions.

As manager of the Los Angeles office’s mentorship program, Keith values the opportunity to train and advise junior and senior associates and paralegals at the firm. He efficiently manages workflow for complex matters, by streamlining attorneys and paralegals, while ensuring that clients receive both cost-effective and competent representation across multiple practice areas.

Keith is committed to pro bono work and participates in various charitable causes, including the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Widely regarded for his legal and market insights, Keith speaks regularly on various commercial real estate matters at local and national conferences.

ACCOLADES

  • Selected for inclusion in Southern California Rising Stars by Super Lawyers (2017 - 2019)
  • Selected for inclusion in New York Metro Rising Stars by Super Lawyers (2014 - 2015)

Keith serves as primary outside real estate counsel for many of his clients, advising them from the earliest stages of strategic planning, through obtaining equity and financing, acquiring assets, subsequent leasing, and eventual company expansion. His experience across shifting market cycles enables Keith to anticipate and mitigate issues in the preliminary stages of a deal and further client business objectives even in the face of challenging economic conditions.

As manager of the Los Angeles office’s mentorship program, Keith values the opportunity to train and advise junior and senior associates and paralegals at the firm. He efficiently manages workflow for complex matters, by streamlining attorneys and paralegals, while ensuring that clients receive both cost-effective and competent representation across multiple practice areas.

Keith is committed to pro bono work and participates in various charitable causes, including the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Widely regarded for his legal and market insights, Keith speaks regularly on various commercial real estate matters at local and national conferences.

ACCOLADES

  • Selected for inclusion in Southern California Rising Stars by Super Lawyers (2017 - 2019)
  • Selected for inclusion in New York Metro Rising Stars by Super Lawyers (2014 - 2015)
  • Developer. Represented developer in connection with a $190 million sale-leaseback of a discount retailer's 882,000-square-foot distribution facility in Commerce, California - one of the largest industrial transactions in Southern California in 2023.
  • National Life Insurance Company. Represents national life insurance company in an array of high-profile acquisition, sale, financing, and joint venture work, including the following:
      • Various investment and leasing transactions, including the purchase of two multifamily assets in Boston, Massachusetts, for $190+ million, and the acquisition of a ground-up multifamily project in Chicago, Illinois, for $100+ million.
      • Disposition of a multi-state public golf course portfolio in a transaction valued at over $160 million.
  • National Industrial Real Estate Owner and Developer. Advises high-profile national logistics company in its acquisition and development work, as well as in the leasing of its 9 million-square-foot industrial portfolio; recent California matters include the acquisition and leaseback of an industrial project in Riverside for $78+ million and of a logistics development in Montebello for $29+ million, as well as the $112+ million purchase of an industrial property in Chino involving several restructurings.
  • Global Real Estate Investment Company. Real estate counsel in numerous recent acquisition and sale matters along the West Coast, including the purchase of two retail centers in Los Angeles, California, in separate transactions for over $126+ million and the disposition of a retail property near Portland, Oregon, to a receiver in a complex 1031 exchange transaction.
  • Road, Highway, and Infrastructure Contracting Firm. Representing company in the sale-leaseback of an active Southern California gravel pit.
  • Southern California Logistics and Development Company. Counseled client in its single-largest acquisition deal to-date: the $205 million purchase of a core industrial project in southeast Los Angeles County from a national retailer.
  • Hospitality Group. Lead real estate counsel in the leasing of a site in West Hollywood, California, for a nightclub, and in the company’s aggressive expansion across Los Angeles and throughout the United States.
  • Multifamily Investment Company. Lead real estate counsel in the acquisition and financing of assets throughout the Western United States, including the $25+ million refinancing of a 168-unit apartment property in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the $34+ million purchase of two multifamily assets in the Seattle, Washington, metropolitan area, with both deals involving CMBS debt.
  • Real Estate Investment Manager. Advised client and joint venture partner in the sale of a Class A office property in Los Angeles County, involving a complex right of first refusal with an existing major tenant.
  • Real Estate Development and Investment Firm. Real estate counsel in numerous recent investment matters, including the $67+ million purchase of a retail center in Long Beach, California, for redevelopment into a housing project and the acquisition of a 14-story office property in Los Angeles, California, for $40+ million.
  • Diversified Holding Company. Advised client in the sale of 150 single-family properties in Arizona to a national leasing company for $67+ million in a complex transaction involving 26 different seller entities and a settlement agreement with the homeowners association.
  • Real Estate Investment Management. Represented company in an NNN lease of an industrial site in Napa County, California, to a large state-wide utility provider.
  • Direct Real Estate Bridge Lender. Advising client in the REO sale of a Coachella, California, development property to a hospitality group in a transaction complicated by bankruptcy concerns, PACE and Mello Roos financings, and ongoing litigation with contractors, among other factors.
  • Healthcare firm. Advised client in the leasing of various special care clinics in California.
  • Real Estate Investment Firm. Represented client in the purchase of a nine-parcel development site in Cathedral City, California.
  • Retailer. Lead real estate counsel in national retail client’s expansion across the United States, including negotiating its headquarters site in New York City with an anticipated future $5+ million build-out.
  • Global Asset Management Firm. Lead real estate counsel to client and its joint venture partners on numerous large transactions.
  • Insurer and Alternative Asset Manager. Real estate counsel in numerous transactional matters.
  • Commercial Real Estate Investment Company. Disposition of a four-property portfolio to a large private equity firm as buyer and future joint venture partner for $115.5 million.
  • Private Equity Company. Represented large private equity joint venture partnership in connection with a 287,000+ rentable square foot “build-to-suit” industrial warehouse lease with a national home improvement center in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Real Estate Developer. Represented client in a 100,000+ square foot “build-to-suit” development project in Mission Viejo, California, with private equity partners (a REIT and a regional medical center). The complex transaction included negotiation and amendment of an existing ground lease, extensive negotiation of a master sublease agreement, negotiation of a joint venture partnership, and eventual buyout of our client's interest by the REIT, the negotiation of various development agreements, financing by the REIT, and the transfer of the existing leasehold interest to the joint venture partnership.
  • Private Equity Company. Sale of a large national retailer's headquarters in Anaheim, California, for $44 million; also advised on the original acquisition-leaseback of the project three years earlier for $27 million – capping off a sizeable return on our client's initial investment.
  • Tenant-in-Common. Assemblage of tenant-in-common interests (14 in total) in connection with a complicated sale of two fee parcels and ground leases in Ontario, California, for $50 million.
  • Real Estate Investment Advisor. Sale of a five-building office project in Pasadena, California, for $50 million.
  • Oil & Gas Company. Acquisition of future 150,000+ square-foot office building for its future headquarters in Bakersfield, California, for $50 million.
  • Commercial Real Estate Investment Firm. Finalizing an over 59,000-square-foot relocation and lease extension in Denver, Colorado, which included various lender issues relating to a sizeable tenant improvement allowance.
  • Joint Venture Partnership. Various transactions, including most recently the sale of a three-building project in Sacramento, California, for $115 million; and the sale of a commercial office building in Carlsbad, California, for $35 million.
  • Private Equity Company. 81,000+ square-foot triple-net lease with a major entertainment conglomerate for creative office campus, including sound stages, in Hollywood, California.
  • Commercial Real Estate Investment Firm. Complicated 51,000+ rentable square foot triple-net biotechnology lease with a German company. The lease contained an unusual rental payment structure, purchase option rights, and a $25 million initial tenant build-out, located in San Jose, California.
  • Commercial Real Estate Investment Firm. Sale of a commercial office building in Phoenix, Arizona, for $11 million.
  • Borrower. Represented the borrower in a $185 million refinancing on a high-end retail property in Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Clothing Conglomerate Tenant. Leasing of 225,000+ square feet of office space in midtown Manhattan, New York.
  • Tenant. Leasing of approximately 175,000+ square feet of office space in midtown Manhattan, New York, for the client’s corporate headquarters.
  • Purchaser. Acquisition of The Raleigh Hotel, located in Miami’s South Beach, Florida, for $51 million.
  • Seller. Three-building portfolio sale on Miami’s Lincoln Road in South Beach, Florida, for $139 million.
  • Owner/Developer. Sale of the Courtyard Marriott Hotel on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York, for $82 million – a deal that was part of a successful Chapter 11 filing.
  • Tenant. Assisted OSI Restaurant Partners, the parent company of Outback Steakhouse, in renewing its lease for its 120,000+ square foot headquarters and adding an additional 60,000+ square feet in Tampa, Florida.

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