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Why Sheppard Mullin for Protea Waterfront Development?
Thank you for considering Sheppard Mullin LLP to serve as real estate counsel to Protea Waterfront Development (“PWD”) on the Seaport project. We have reviewed your plan and we are confident that we are uniquely qualified to help you meet your needs over the course of this exciting project. Specifically, we offer:
• A Shared Commitment. We share a personal interest in PWD and Seaport’s success. We have partnered with clients on projects shaping San Diego for more than 30 years. We live and practice in San Diego and believe in and support its growth and evolution. We will consider it a privilege to be PWD’s partner in bringing Seaport to life because we believe that its development will enhance our waterfront and our community.
• Decades of Experience Bringing Large-Scale, Mixed-Use Projects to Market. With the largest, most experienced and diverse real estate practice in California and San Diego, we offer a diversity and depth of experience that is unrivaled. We will provide PWD with the full range of services – transactional, land use, and development – needed to realize this one-of-a-kind project. We are recognized leaders in strategizing with our clients, environmental consultants, lead and other interested public agencies to move complex projects from concept to reality. We have extensive experience with transformative waterfront properties like San Diego’s Hotel Del Coronado, Marriott Marquis, and Lane Field, and San Francisco’s Ferry Building, Hunters Point and Candlestick Point Shipyard redevelopment, Presidio redevelopment, and Cruise Terminal, as well as marquis mixed-use projects like Petco Park Village, L.A. Live, the Cross Border Express linking Otay Mesa to Tijuana International Airport, the proposed Ritz Carlton/Whole Foods project at 7th & Market in Downtown San Diego, and the proposed UCSD Downtown Campus at Park & Market. Our experience on these and many other projects and our long-standing relationships with local agencies, including the Port of San Diego, Coastal Commission, City of San Diego, and Civic San Diego, often provide the leverage and credibility required to expedite project approval.
• Big-Picture Solutions. We have proposed for you seasoned team leaders with expertise in the key areas needed to help PWD develop Seaport. We will work cooperatively to give you 360-degree solutions to meet all of your needs over the course of this project, from securing financing to Port leasing to streamlined entitlement approvals to defending those approvals against legal challenges to creating a governance structure aligned with your marketing and exit strategy. As a full service firm with more than 750 attorneys across 15 offices in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, our proposed team can call upon the experience of our deep bench, from members of our leading hospitality and construction teams to our expert tax and international attorneys, to advise PWD on all manner of cross-over issues that may arise over the course of this project.
• Cost Efficiency. We staff our matters leanly and offer extremely competitive fees based on our experience and expertise. We work with our in-house economics team to develop data-driven budgets tailored to client needs and offer a variety of alternative fee arrangements. We will work with you to find a mutually agreeable pricing agreement that demonstrates our commitment to partnering with you.
We look forward to meeting with the PWD team to learn more about your plans for Seaport and how we can add value. In the meantime, we offer our initial thoughts on the road ahead and how we can help PWD efficiently and effectively navigate it.
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