Los Angeles Real Estate Lawyers

FULL-SERVICE REAL ESTATE LEGAL SERVICES

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

Simantob Law Group’s Los Angeles real estate lawyers 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.  From the start of a real estate transaction, we focus on thorough due diligence including lease, title, survey and environmental review.

REAL ESTATE FINANCE

The real estate finance attorneys of Simantob Law Group have extensive experience representing domestic national banks 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.  In addition, the firm represents borrowers in the review and negotiation of loan documents in single and multi-asset financings of commercial real estate.

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.

ENTITY SELECTION AND FORMATION

Our business attorneys assist clients to determine the entity structure based on various parameters, including liability and taxation. We form limited liability companies, corporations, partnerships and trusts for the purpose of acquiring, developing and operating real property.

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 OPERATIONS

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.

• 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’ business 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.