Farshad Morè is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's New York and Century City offices. He is a member of the firm's Real Estate Department.
Farshad's real estate practice experience includes representation of opportunity and private equity funds, REITs, institutional and non-institutional real estate investors, developers and operators, lenders and borrowers in a broad range of matters, including acquisition, development, financing and disposition of commercial real estate of all asset types, including vacant land, hotels, residential, office, multi-family, retail and mixed-use buildings, shopping centers, and other commercial and residential properties throughout the United States; acquisition and disposition of debt instruments secured by, and equity interests in, real property, including the acquisition and disposition of REITs; complex construction, permanent, securitized, mezzanine, preferred equity and participating financing, including Shari'ah-compliant financings; forming and representing joint ventures, limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships, and negotiating joint venture agreements for operating and capital partners; ground leasing and ground leasehold financing.
Additionally, Farshad routinely advises and represents clients in connection with restructuring and "work-outs" of existing financing, as well as uniform commercial code and real estate foreclosures.
Farshad has been recognized as a leading lawyer by:
- Chambers USA in Real Estate from 2016 to 2025
- Law360 as the Real Estate “MVP” in 2015 and 2024 and as a “Rising Star” in Real Estate in 2015.
- The Recorder as Real Estate Lawyer of the Year in 2024
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers in 2024 and 2025
- The Best Lawyers in America from 2014 to 2026
- Best Lawyers as the 2019 “Lawyer of the Year” for Real Estate Law in Los Angeles
- Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” in 2015
- Expert Guides in 2015
Select representative transactions that Farshad has led include:
- Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Fairfax Financial Holdings and other purchasers in the acquisition of a $5.4 billion real estate construction loan portfolio from Pacific Western Bank.
- KKR in the approximately $2.1 billion acquisition and financing of a portfolio of 18 multifamily assets from Quarterra Multifamily.
- KKR in its approximately $1.64 billion acquisition of a 19-property student housing portfolio from Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT).
- Stockbridge Real Estate Funds in the sale of the Hollywood Park Racing track in Inglewood, CA to SKG for the development of SoFi Stadium.
- KKR’s $1.08 billion acquisition and financing of The Exchange in San Francisco’s Mission Bay, a 750,000 square foot office and life science capable complex.
- Lennar Corp. in the sale of a majority stake in Quarterra, its multifamily and rental development division, to TPG Real Estate.
- Jamestown Properties in its $825 million acquisition and financing of Levi’s Plaza, a 930,000 square foot, multi-building campus in San Francisco, CA.
- Ohana Real Estate Investors in the acquisition, financing, re-brading and subsequent disposition of the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort and Club in Dana Point, California.
Farshad earned his law degree in 2003 from Columbia University School of Law. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, with a minor in Italian, cum laude in 1999 from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Farshad is admitted to practice in New York and California.
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Credentials
Education:
- Columbia University - 2003 Juris Doctor
- University of California, Los Angeles - 1999 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- California Bar
- New York Bar