Leasing

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Christian A. Buerger

Partner, Washington, DC

T: +1.202.663.9146

christian.buerger@pillsburylaw.com

Eric A. Kremer

Retired Partner, San Diego

T: +1.858.509.4021

eric.kremer@pillsburylaw.com

William S. Waller

Partner, Los Angeles

T: +1.213.488.7326

william.waller@pillsburylaw.com

Andrew J. Weiner

Partner, New York

T: +1.212.858.1034

andrew.weiner@pillsburylaw.com

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Pillsbury has real estate lawyers in offices worldwide with extensive experience handling a broad range of large, complex, high-profile leasing transactions for both landlords and tenants.

Representing clients ranging from REITs and other institutional property owners (as landlords) to Fortune 500 companies and high-tech and biotech startup companies (as tenants), Pillsbury Real Estate lawyers handle lease transactions in markets across the United States and in portions of Europe and Asia. We advise on, negotiate and help to enforce all types of leases for a wide range of properties, including office, industrial, retail, hospitality and agricultural leases. We are experienced in structuring and negotiating ground, build-to-suit and synthetic leases, as well as sale/leaseback arrangements and subleases.

We counsel landlords and tenants on creative tenant improvement financing structures, security deposit/letter of credit instruments, decommissioning issues involving biotechnology and industrial premises, leasehold bankruptcy rights and remedies, tax issues, and nontraditional leasing opportunities, such as cellphone and rooftop satellite site leases and entertainment industry site use agreements.

Representative Experience

Acted for Fifth Street Properties in the leasing of its 435,000-square-foot, twin-tower office project in San Diego.
Represented premier New York-based university and its affiliated hospital over several decades in the acquisition, leasing, condominiumization and development of over 3 million square feet of real estate assets as part of its not-for-profit mission.
Handled retail client’s negotiation and closing of a 770,000-square-foot, build-to-suit lease transaction for a Reno, NV, distribution center, resolving credit, tenant build-out and site due diligence issues.

Negotiated build-to-suit full-building lease comprising 500,000 square feet of office space along Northern Virginia’s Dulles Corridor. The transaction also involved expansion options, reciprocal easement agreements and purchase options.

In the United States
- Represented 270 Brannan Street LLC in its San Francisco’s South of Market district full-building lease to Splunk Inc., which included detailed construction provisions and phased commencement and termination dates.
- Handled 10-year build-to-suit lease for a tenant’s four-building, 465,000-square-foot product R&D corporate campus in San Diego, CA, including requests for proposals documentation, letters of intent and work letter agreements.
- Represented retail tenant in negotiating and closing a 770,000-square-foot build-to-suit lease transaction for a Reno, NV, distribution center, and handled resolution of credit, tenant build-out and site due diligence issues.
- Negotiated major technology company’s sublease of a 250,000-square-foot, multi-building office campus in San Jose, CA.

International
- Advised India-based investment bank on the acquisition of a property in London with senior and mezzanine debt by Barclays Bank and a sale-leaseback.
- Advised global electronics company in the leasing of new headquarters and the leasing and disposal of premises in various cities in the UK.
- Represented development company on the scheme documentation for the Pearl Qatar including lease and sale agreements, master community, and other real estate-related and joint venture documentation.
- Represented Barwa on the scheme documentation for Barwa Al Khor Project, including lease and sale agreements, and master community.
- Represented Religare Capital Markets in the sale and leaseback of 100 Cannon Street, London.
- Represented Arrow Electronics in the leasing of new headquarters and subleasing and disposal of surplus space in Bedford, Bristol and Coventry.

Practice Area Highlights

Pillsbury’s real estate team and lawyers are recognized by Chambers USA, with clients saying we offer “[t]op-flight client service,” “deep commercial awareness,” “quality of work” and “timeliness of turnaround.”
Received Tier 1 rankings for both Real Estate Law and Litigation – Real Estate by Best Lawyers Best Law Firms (2025).
Recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. in both Real Estate and Real Estate Finance (2025). Clients say our real estate practice and lawyers are “technically excellent,” “efficient, responsive and knowledgeable.”

Pillsbury was ranked among the Top 10 “Leading Real Estate Law Firms” by Commercial Property Executive, a publication that covers the commercial real estate industry’s key trends, issues and concerns.

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