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• Leader of firmwide Real Estate Finance Team
• Deep experience in real property purchase and sale, leasing, financing, entity formation and structuring, and property management agreements
• Represents commercial and industrial building owners and tenants in structuring, documenting and negotiating ground leases (including sale-leasebacks), industrial use leases and related occupancy and build-out agreements in suburban office park developments and downtown commercial district buildings
• Represents lending institutions and borrowers in real estate secured financings for purchase of real property and construction of improvements on real property
• General counsel for the USS Midway Museum, a non- profit in downtown San Diego
• 25+ years of environmental counseling and litigation experience
• Advises on climate change, ESG, complex offset transactions, Brownfields redevelopment, sustainability and other regulatory and transactional matters
• Expert on California’s Cap-and-Trade Program (compliance, rulemaking, enforcement and emission trading contracts) and other aspects of AB 32, as well as related state, federal and international programs and international offset projects
• Represents clients in cost recovery actions, regulatory enforcement actions (e.g., administrative enforcement proceedings brought by CARB, DTSC, DPR, AQMDs, RWQCBs and other agencies), writ proceedings to challenge regulations and representation of PRPs and PRP groups at Superfund sites
• Particular expertise with contaminated sediment sites
• Represented clients in every lawsuit filed to date challenging California’s Cap-and-Trade Program
• Counsel to Vantage for xx years
• Advises clients on regulatory and political hurdles facing development projects across California
• Projects include Facebook’s Melo Park Headquarters and Jay Paul Company’s Cityview project in Downtown San Jose
• Member of the Oakland Planning Commission
• Former District Director for U.S. Representative Ellen Tauscher
Mike Leake
Partner / Real Estate Counsel
San Diego
619.338.6563 mleake@sheppardmullin.com
Nico Van Aelstyn
Partner / Environmental Counsel
San Francisco
415.403.6006 Nvanaelstyn@sheppardmullin.com
Key Additional Legal Services for Vantage Data Center
Jennifer Renk
Partner / Land Use Counsel
San Francisco 415.774.3143 jrenk@sheppardmullin.com
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