Dennis S. Roy
FAX: 213.687.2149
Experience
Dennis Roy is a partner focusing on real estate law and redevelopment. He has extensive experience with residential subdivision, entitlements and development, and has been involved in numerous public/private joint ventures of regional significance, including ground lease development at Marina del Rey; hotel, retail and office development at Cerritos Towne Center; the development of the California Adventure Park/Convention Center Expansion in Anaheim; condominium subdivision in Playa Vista; entitlement and development of the mixed-use master planned Village at the Park community in the City of Camarillo; the redevelopment of the Boeing site in Long Beach, California; and numerous hi-rise luxury and suburban condominium developments. His representative clients include major commercial and residential developers in California and numerous Southern California cities and redevelopment agencies.
Mr. Roy currently serves as Assistant City Attorney for the City of Cerritos.
While earning his J.D., Mr. Roy served as editor of International Lawyer. He also served as a Judicial Extern to Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Law Clerk to Justice George Lohr, Colorado Supreme Court.
Mr. Roy was named a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2007 through 2010.
Education
- J.D., UCLA School of Law, Order of the Coif, 1981
- M.B.A., Anderson School at UCLA, Distinguished Scholar, 1981
- B.A., Brown University, magna cum laude, 1977
Admitted
- California
Seminars and Presentations:
- Lecturer for the California CEB on the subject of homeowners associations
- Guest lecturer at USC on redevelopment law
- Speaker on a number of occasions for the Los Angeles County Bar and California Redevelopment Association on matters such as real estate development, condominium law, and public/private joint ventures
Professional Activities:
- State Bar of California (Business Law Section and Subsections on Common Interest Development and Public Private Real Estate Development of the Real Property Section)
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (Real Property Section)
- California Redevelopment Association
- Building Industry Association of Southern California