Overview
Andy’s practice focuses on the leasing, acquisition, disposition, and development of life science properties, retail properties, office properties, medical office properties, film and television media properties, and mixed-use properties. He has a proven track record of structuring, negotiating and executing complicated deal transactions for a wide variety of clients, including institutional investors, entrepreneurial individuals and entities, and institutional tenants. He also regularly represents landlords in the ongoing management of life science projects, retail shopping centers, and office projects.
Andy has represented numerous institutional landlords and institutional and non-institutional tenants in the leasing of millions of square feet of space, including one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies in over 2.5 million square feet of office space in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere across the country – and he uses that unique perspective and broad experience to bring a balanced, common sense approach to transactions and to help find innovative and creative solutions for his clients.
Andy speaks and writes on a variety of life science, retail and office leasing topics and has guest lectured for graduate students at USC.
Experience
Representation of an institutional landlord in connection with the on-going leasing of first-class life science space in a three-building life science project in Torrey Pine, California.
Representation of an institutional landlord in connection with the leasing of a 90,000 square foot life science building in Fremont, California.
Representation of an institutional landlord in connection with the leasing of over 250,000 square feet of office space in a five-building project to a leading e-commerce and technology manufacturer near Cupertino, California.
Representation of an institutional landlord in connection with the leasing of over 100,000 square feet of office/industrial/flex space in a historical landmark building in Richmond, California.
On-going leasing in connection with a five-building film and media production campus in West Los Angeles, California.
Representation of a prominent film/television union in connection with its flagship headquarters in Los Angeles, California.
On-going leasing in connection with two-building office campus on exclusive Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.
Representation of an institutional landlord in connection with the leasing activity at a 2.65 million square foot, multi-building office building portfolio in Seattle and Bellevue, Washington.
Representation of an institutional landlord in connection with a series of interrelated and cross-contingent agreements with two pharmaceutical companies, involving a total of over 70,000 square feet of space in two buildings in San Diego, California.
Representation of an institutional developer in the initial acquisition of land, and the subsequent leasing of such land to a national sports team, in El Segundo, California.
Representation of a tenant in its lease of 286,000 square feet of office space in Seattle, Washington.
Representation of a national residential mortgage company tenant in its lease of 78,000 square feet of space in Westfield, Indiana.
Representation of an institutional landlord in connection with the lease of approximately 86,000 square feet of office space to a leading file-hosting service at the historic China Basin project in San Francisco, California.
Representation of an institutional landlord in connection with the leasing of approximately 72,000 square feet in Bellevue, Washington with major technology tenant.
Representation of a major institutional tenant in connection with its lease of approximately 36,000 square feet of office space in the Embarcadero Center, in San Francisco, California.
Representation of a national institutional investor in connection with a multi-phase assignment and amendment of office space for a 194,000 single-tenant building in Burbank, California.
Representation of an institutional landlord in connection with its lease of an approximately 43,000 square foot office building to a life science company in San Diego, California.
Representation of an institutional landlord in connection with the lease of approximately 122,000 square feet of space to major technology company for its headquarters in Bellevue, Washington.
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Professional Affiliations
International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
UCLA Real Estate Alumni Group (REAG)
Practice Areas
Industries
Real Estate Sectors
Bar & Court Admissions
- State Bar of California
Education
J.D., Loyola Law School, 2002, cum laude, Order of the Coif
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1998, cum laude