Sandy Jacobson Receives GlobeSt. 2026 Women of Influence CRE Legal Counsel Award

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – April 13, 2026 – Allen Matkins announced today that leading Real Estate Transactional Partner, Sandy Jacobson, is a recipient of GlobeSt.’s 2026 Women of Influence CRE Legal Counsel Award.

Sandy Jacobson is based in both Orange County and New York. Until recently, she was the operating partner of the New York office, leading its opening in 2023 and its subsequent growth from five lawyers to nearly 20 in less than three years. Sandy is not only a leader within the firm, but she is also a rainmaker and mentor. Sandy consciously works on elevating women in real estate, and she understands how difficult it is for women to have the opportunity to raise families and have successful careers. She also sees the gender imbalance in the real estate industry and has made it her mission to address it.

Sandy acts as a strategic legal and business advisor to leading real estate owners and investors on their most transformative industrial, office, retail, and mixed-use transactions, helping her clients to achieve their business priorities. Sandy’s clients turn to her for counsel on complex purchase and sale agreements, leasing, and the operation and management of portfolios across the country. She has advised influential players in the commercial real estate sector on transactions exceeding $1 billion in the last two years, and represented high-profile landlords and tenants in leasing more than 1 million square feet of office, industrial, and retail space.

Marquee projects include representing the purchaser in a complex 30-property portfolio acquisition of retail, office, and industrial properties located in Arizona and California; representing developers of retail projects in Northern California and Austin, Texas.

Allen Matkins' growing real estate practice, which now includes more than 160 real estate transactional lawyers across California and New York, making it one of the largest and most diversified real estate groups in the country. The firm has worked with global industry powerhouses responsible for contributing to the development, innovation, and reshaping of the major U.S. real estate markets, having played a key role in the most high-profile real estate projects across the country.

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