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Jonathan Gross
Real estate practice co-chair at Cozen O’Connor
Clients have included CommonWealth Partners, LendLease Real Estate and Maguire Properties
Named to Best Lawyers in America each year between 2007 and 2022
Co-chair of the real estate practice at Cozen O’Connor, Jonathan Gross focuses his practice primarily on commercial real estate, including entity formation, major office and retail leasing, construction, and design agreements; service, engineering, consulting, and management agreements; brokerage agreements; title insurance; real estate secured lending; purchase and sale of developed and undeveloped property; reciprocal easement agreements and covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs); ground leases; and fine art commission agreements.
His clients have included the Bayside District Corporation, CommonWealth Partners, The Equitable-Nissei Figueroa Company, LendLease Real Estate, Maguire Properties, and Thomas Development Partners. A few examples of his experience include the following:
- Represented entities owned by a vertically integrated office investor in restructuring a national co-working space tenant’s obligations under leases in two separate office projects — one in Philadelphia and one in Pasadena, CA- to provide cash flow relief necessitated by circumstances related to COVID-19.
- Represented the managing member and 50% equity investor in an Opportunity Zone development of a student housing project, with related retail, in a unique transaction that combined Opportunity Zone tax advantages, educational non-profit participation, financing from a national bank, and subordinate financing from a local development fund.
- Represented a joint venture as owner in connection with an office lease including 46,101 square feet on penthouse floors of two buildings in the Enclave project in San Diego. This representation included handling the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of the office lease and all lease-related documents.
Based in Santa Monica, CA, Gross has been honored numerous times over the years, to include being named to Best Lawyers in America each year between 2007 and 2022.
These are some of the reasons that we named Gross to our National grouping of Lawyers in Real Estate. These are real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in both their practice and the larger community.