March 28, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO – Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, a leading California real estate law firm, announces the addition of Richard H. Rosenthal as a partner in its San Francisco office.
“We are pleased to welcome Richard to the firm. His 24 years of experience in handling complex real estate transactions for developers, owners, lenders and investors will enable us to deepen our services for the firm’s clientele,“ said Mario Camara, Senior Member of the Firm’s Executive Committee.
“We are in a steady growth mode,” said San Francisco Executive Committee Member Robert Infelise. “We are continually looking to expand services to clients by attracting high impact senior partners. Richard has an active and impressive client base. He will offer new and existing clients real estate legal services of the highest caliber.”
Rosenthal’s transactional experience includes financings, acquisitions, dispositions, leases, construction agreements and management agreements. His financing experience includes debt, equity and public/private construction and permanent financings. He has obtained entitlements and permits for all types of industrial and commercial projects, including those built on contaminated property.
“I was attracted to Cox Castle & Nicholson for numerous reasons, including the impressive breadth and depth of the resources this firm has with which to service sophisticated real estate clients. In my opinion, Cox Castle & Nicholson has the best real estate practice in California. For a real estate lawyer with clients doing major transactions throughout the country, this is simply the best place in California to be,” says Rosenthal.
Transactions representative of Rosenthal’s practice include numerous debt and equity financings of the acquisition and renovation of office and industrial properties throughout the Western U.S., the representation of certain institutional investors in the sale of 120 acres of unentitled property for development, the representation of the developer of three projects (having over 1.5 million square feet of office space and a hotel) on a Federal Superfund site, the representation of the developer of a 700 acre residential mixed us project, which included an 18 hole golf course, and the representation of the lead developer of Mare Island Naval Shipyard (closed in 1993).
Rosenthal, formerly a principal with Stoel Rives, obtained his J.D from the University of San Francisco School of Law (1976) and a B.A. from the University of Michigan (1972). He is a member of the State Bar of California -Real Property Section, and the Urban Land Institute.
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, a California law firm, has one of the largest concentrations of attorneys specializing in representing the real estate, construction, and financial services industries. For more than 50 years, the firm has represented public and privately held businesses, major financial institutions, pension funds, industry entrepreneurs, and public agencies in acquiring, developing, redeveloping, financing, leasing, managing and disposing of real estate assets. Cox Castle & Nicholson is located on the web at www.coxcastle.com.