Allison H. Kidd is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group and Land Use Practice Group. Allison’s practice includes a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions. She represents private equity funds, institutional and non-institutional real estate investors, REITs, developers and operators in all areas of real estate, including acquisitions, permanent and construction financing (mortgage and mezzanine), joint ventures, dispositions and work-outs.
Allison’s practice includes a variety of asset classes, including office, residential, industrial, senior housing and mixed-use. She also routinely works with developers on large-scale development projects, including structuring, negotiating and implementing public-private partnerships, development agreements and ground leases.
Allison has been recognized as a leading lawyer by:
- Chambers USA for California Real Estate: Land Use/Zoning in 2024
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers in 2024
- GlobeSt Real Estate Forum Women of Influence in 2023
- The Best Lawyers in America in Real Estate Law from 2020-2025
- Law360 as a “Rising Star” in 2019
Allison has counselled clients in some of the most high-profile developments in the San Francisco Bay Area, including:
- The Chase Center in San Francisco;
- The Oakland A’s Major League Baseball team’s waterfront baseball stadium and 50-acre mixed-use development; and
- Related’s 240-acre mixed use development adjacent to Levi Stadium in Santa Clara.
Allison received a law degree and master of public policy, with an emphasis on urban development policy, in 2008 from the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Columbia in 2001.
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Credentials
Education:
- University of California, Los Angeles - 2008 Master of Public Policy
- University of California, Los Angeles - 2008 Juris Doctor
- Columbia University - 2001 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- California Bar