Los Angeles Real Estate Lawyers

FULL-SERVICE LOS ANGELES REAL ESTATE LAW FIRM

Simantob Law Group’s Los Angeles real estate lawyers have extensive experience in all aspects of real estate transactions and have assisted clients in acquisitions, dispositions, development, management, leasing and finance involving land, multi-family residential projects, hotels, office and retail projects, industrial sites and manufacturing facilities.

In addition, we advise real estate clients on non-routine matters, including insurance claims, condemnations and bankruptcies.

ACQUISITIONS AND DISPOSITIONS

We are known for our cost-effective and expeditious expert documentation of purchase and sale transactions.  Our real estate attorneys handle all aspects of documenting real property purchase and sale transactions, including letters of intent, purchase and sale agreements, option agreements, and ancillary documents relating to purchase and sale, including broker agreements, escrow agreements, SNDAs and estoppel certificates.  We provide thorough due diligence for our buyers, including lease, title, survey and environmental review.

REAL ESTATE FINANCE

The real estate finance attorneys of Simantob Law Group have extensive experience in representing lenders and borrowers in structuring, negotiating and documenting financial transactions, including permanent real estate secured loans, construction loans, mixed-collateral and personal property secured loans and lines of credit.  We have represented national and regional banks in their real estate finance transactions, including Wells Fargo Bank, First Hawaiian Bank and HAB Bank.

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS/HOA

Simantob Law Group’s Los Angeles HOA attorneys provide legal counsel and representation to common interest developments (“CID”) throughout California, including condominium projects, planned developments, stock cooperatives and community apartment projects in residential and mixed use settings (commercial and residential).  

Over the past two decades, Simantob Law Group’s Los Angeles HOA attorneys have counseled HOAs and management companies managing a critical mass of CIDs. 

COMMERCIAL LEASING

Our Los Angeles real estate lawyers have decades of experience in representing landlords and tenants in all facets of leasing commercial space and unimproved land, including ground leases.  Our attorneys negotiate and draft leases for office, industrial, shopping center and retail and mixed-use developments throughout the United States. We also negotiate and prepare ancillary lease documents such as work letters for tenant improvements, SNDAs, estoppel certificates, guarantees and letters of credit in addition to assignments and subleases.

We represent landlords and tenants with modifications and terminations of leases in normal business settings as well as in bankruptcies and workouts.

As leaders in the commercial leasing legal arena, we routinely represent family offices, property management companies and national institutional clients and have provided legal guidance with respect to leasing transactions with an aggregate value of over one billion US Dollars. As experts in ground lease transactions, we are hired to provide guidance on complex ground lease transactions.

REAL ESTATE LITIGATION

Simantob Law Group’s Los Angeles real estate litigation attorneys have represented the real estate and construction industries during the past three decades.  We provide effective, cost-efficient and result-oriented representation to our clients in a wide range of disputes involving real property.

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

Our Los Angeles real estate lawyers provide outside general counsel functions to individuals, companies, family offices and institutional clients in their acquisition, disposition, use and operation of their commercial real estate and represent regional property management companies and national financial institutions in all aspects of their management of commercial real estate portfolios.

UNLAWFUL DETAINER

Our real estate attorneys handle the full life cycle of commercial real estate leasing, from lease review and lease drafting to dispute resolution and unlawful detainer proceedings.  Our experienced Los Angeles unlawful detainer attorneys assist landlords and tenants in unlawful detainer proceedings in Los Angeles and throughout California. Whether you are a seasoned landlord or facing your first eviction as a tenant, our aim is to equip you with strategic guidance on California laws and to protect your rights in unlawful detainer proceedings.

• EXPERIENCE.  Our lead real estate attorney – Lisa D. Simantob, Esq. has over 30 years’ experience as a Los Angeles real estate and real estate finance attorney serving clients in Los Angeles and throughout California
• HIGHEST QUALITY SERVICE. Ms. Simantob strives to provide the highest quality legal services to all clients
• STRATEGIC GUIDANCE.  Our Los Angeles real estate lawyers provide strategic guidance for the successful and expeditious closing of real property transactions
• COST EFFECTIVE.  Our legal fees are reasonably priced
• BROAD INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE.  We have worked with the real estate industry for over three decades and have knowledge of its intricacies
• HIGHEST CLIENT SATISFACTION.  Reviews of our firm demonstrate the highest level of client satisfaction

As experienced Los Angeles real estate lawyers, we understand our clients’ real estate operations and goals.  We address our client’s real estate legal needs on a cost effective basis. In addition to hourly rates, we provide fixed fees on select matters.