Mr. Snyder's practice includes real estate transactions and project development, equity and debt structuring for investment and projects, commercial finance, and insolvency matters and workouts.

In the real estate area, Mr. Snyder focuses on negotiating and documenting complex portfolio acquisitions and financings (including sale-leasebacks) and structuring multitiered equity and debt financing transactions. He also regularly represents landlords and tenants in commercial and industrial lease transactions, and borrowers and lenders in mortgage loan transactions. In 25 years of real estate practice, Mr. Snyder has been involved in the acquisition, financing, development and operation of a broad range of property types, including office, retail, industrial, multifamily residential and resort investment properties, as well as timber, mining, agricultural and energy projects. Mr. Snyder also has extensive experience in dealing with environmental issues affecting real estate.

Mr. Snyder also focuses on corporate real estate, regularly representing users in the acquisition, development, leasing and financing of facilities of all types, including office, research and development, industrial and agricultural.

Mr. Snyder's experience in commercial finance covers secured and unsecured revolving credit facilities and term loans as well as project financing. He has also represented borrowers, lenders, landlords and other parties in workouts and insolvency matters.

Mr. Snyder has served as a member and Vice-Chair of the California State Bar Real Property Section Executive Committee. Mr. Snyder has served as a member of the firm's San Francisco Office Management Committee. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Snyder was the Managing Partner of the San Francisco office.

• Representation of institutional real estate investments companies in acquisitions and dispositions of hundreds of properties, including dozens of sale-leaseback transactions and tax-deferred exchanges.
• Representation of property owners in debt and equity financings and recapitalizations of portfolios and single properties and projects, including structuring and documentation of investment funds and joint ventures, partnership roll-ups, REIT contribution transactions, synthetic leases, project financings and lease revenue bond financings.
• Representation of developers of office, research, industrial and infrastructure projects.
• Representation of lenders in origination, workouts and enforcement of real estate, commercial, corporate and project financings.
• Representation of pension funds and other institutions in a broad range of real estate and other investment activities.
• Representation of corporate sellers and acquirors in real estate and corporate aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

California State Bar Real Property Law Section (former member of the Executive Committee)