Practices:

• Real Estate
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Capital Markets
  • Loan Workouts and Creditors Rights
  • Leasing
  • Debt Portfolio Transactions
  • Acquisitions and Dispositions

Industries

• Distressed Transactions, Workouts and Bankruptcy
• Financial Services
• Real Estate

Experience

J. David Larsen's practice focuses on commercial lending, real estate finance, real property acquisition and disposition, commercial leasing, workouts, debtor-in-possession finance, enterprise acquisition and disposition, corporate entity formation and governance, and other transactional matters. 

During law school, Larsen was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award in Debtors’ Rights and Creditors’ Remedies and served as the Senior Articles Editor of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review.  He completed an externship with Justice Joyce L. Kennard of the California Supreme Court, and an internship with the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.  He received his B.A. from Northwestern University with distinction and honors, majoring in English and with a significant concentration in Asian Studies and the Japanese language.  He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Eta Sigma national honor societies.

Notable Engagements

Represented major national bank as lead attorney in a $50,190,000 syndicated construction loan to finance the acquisition and development of a retail and office park in Southern California

Represented major national bank as lead attorney in a $43,598,029 construction loan to finance the development of a 147-unit residential condominium project in Northern California

Served as lead attorney to major national bank in two construction loans secured by leasehold deeds of trust in the amounts of $5,755,000 and $19,688,428 for the construction of warehouse distribution facilities located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area

Handled the assumption of more than twenty-five securitized mortgage loans as lead attorney for a major loan servicing company, including a $135,000,000 loan secured by a luxury resort & spa involving a reverse 1031 exchange, wherein the fee interest holder of the collateral for the loan was, until the sale of a like-kind property could be consummated, not the buyer but a third party exchange accommodator

Represented a major insurance company in the first mortgage refinancing of a portfolio of properties located in Southern California consisting of offices, research and development properties and a shopping center, aggregating $200,000,000

Education

• J.D., University of California, Hastings College of Law, 1997
• B.A., Northwestern University 1992

Admitted

• California