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2021 Lawyers in Real Estate Awards
California
Kenneth Fields
Partner at Greenberg Glusker
Clients include Rexford Industrial Realty, Black Equities Group, ARKA Properties Group and Daum Commercial Real Estate
Creates master lease forms that save clients thousands in legal fees
Greenberg Glusker partner Ken Fields represents owners, operators, syndicators, investors, developers, brokers and others in all categories of real estate, with particular expertise in industrial assets. During 2021 to date, Fields has handled approximately $1.5 billion in industrial purchase and sale transactions, and approximately $2 billion in other transactional matters. For example, Fields recently represented Rexford Industrial Realty in a $220 million acquisition which has been reported as the largest industrial deal closed in the third quarter.
Fields has an impressive list of clients, including Rexford Industrial Realty, Black Equities Group, ARKA Properties Group and Daum Commercial Real Estate, as well as serving as local California counsel for some of the larger industrial REITs in the country. Clients turn to Fields for counsel on structuring complex transactions and developing creative strategies to get deals done, believing he will find a way to help them achieve their objectives in virtually any situation.
Fields’ relentless quest to ethically do whatever it takes to help clients achieve their objectives has allowed him to attract a fiercely loyal and diversified group of clients. He is focused on how to maximize efficiencies for his clients.
For example, some of Fields’ larger and more sophisticated clients have internal teams that can handle more streamlined lease negotiations in-house. For those clients, Fields creates one or more master lease forms and sample lease provisions so those clients can generate and negotiate simple leases in-house.
Fields still handles more complex negotiations for those clients, but this process saves some of his clients tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees each year. By focusing on his clients’ needs, rather than his own profits, Fields has engendered strong client devotion and longevity, which has in turn resulted in a successful legal and business practice.
These are some of the reasons that we named Fields to our California grouping of Lawyers in Real Estate. These are real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in both their practice and the larger community.