Chauncey Swalwell has an extensive practice in all areas of commercial real estate, including the representation of private and institutional investors and lenders in connection with the acquisition, sale, development, leasing and financing of hotels, office buildings, regional shopping centers, industrial parks and other projects, including the structuring of complex transactions involving public and private REITs, TICs and other investment and lending vehicles.

Mr. Swalwell has considerable experience representing both lenders and borrowers in the negotiation of a wide variety of commercial lending transactions, including the origination and restructuring thereof. Mr. Swalwell also has extensive experience in the structuring and negotiating of joint venture agreements on behalf of private equity and institutional investors and promoters in a considerable array of real estate transactions. Mr. Swalwell’s practice also includes representation of both buyers and sellers in the negotiation of purchase and sale contracts, along with a wide variety of other real estate-related transactions and issues.

Mr. Swalwell also has extensive expertise in the intricacies of California’s relatively unique foreclosure framework, including the so-called one action and anti-deficiency statutes and their effect on the rights and remedies of lenders, borrowers and guarantors. He also has been involved in numerous judicial foreclosure, receivership and other real estate-related litigation matters.

Mr. Swalwell has been listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in 2007 and 2008.

Memberships

California Bar Association; Los Angeles County Bar Association; International Council of Shopping Centers

Admitted to Practice

California, 1990

Education

J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 1990

B.A., University of California - Los Angeles, 1986