DLA Piper LLP (US)

Real Estate

Partner

Vivek Chavan represents clients across a broad range of real estate transactional needs, at two separate levels: fund and joint venture investments and real estate investments. He has represented numerous clients in the formation of their real estate funds and in their investment or sponsorship in real estate joint ventures. He also represents clients in the acquisition, disposition, financing, development, construction, operation and leasing of real properties throughout the United States, with a particular focus on the industrial, retail, office, forestry, hotel and multi-tenant property sectors. His practice includes a variety of business and transactional real estate matters, among them equity, debt and construction financing, partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, contributions, OP units and tax-driven structures.

Vivek represents clients in the development and construction of industrial, retail, office and hotel properties. He regularly advises on land-related issues and negotiates development, construction and architectural/engineering agreements, declarations, conditions of approval, subdivisions and easements. Vivek's clients include REITs, TIMOs, funds, developers, investors, banks, foreign investors and other institutions.

J.D., University of California, Davis School of Law; B.A., University of California at Riverside