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Jesse Sharf

Jesse
Sharf

Partner

CONTACT INFO

jsharf@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 310.552.8512

FAX:+1 213.229.6638

Century City

2029 Century Park East, Suite 4000, Los Angeles, CA 90067-3026 USA

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PRACTICE

Real Estate Business Restructuring and Reorganization Financial Institutions Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)

BIOGRAPHY

Jesse Sharf is a partner in the Century City office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is Co-Chair of the firm’s Real Estate Department, and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.  His real estate practice experience includes extensive representation of all types of investors, lenders and developers.  On the lender side, Jesse represents mezzanine lenders, construction lenders, CMBS lenders, and portfolio lenders in workouts, whole loan sales, syndications and participations, foreclosures and other enforcement actions, construction lending, mezzanine lending, CMBS lending and structured finance lending transactions.  In addition, Jesse represents real estate funds, developers and institutional and non-institutional investors in all areas of real estate, including:  workouts; acquisition of distressed loans and other assets; construction, permanent, securitized, mezzanine and participating financing; representations of home builders and other developers; environmental aspects of real estate transactions; loan restructuring, workouts and enforcement; all aspects of commercial development; acquisition and sale of vacant land, office buildings, apartment buildings, build to rent/single family rental portfolios, industrial and logistics properties, studios, life science and data centers, hotels, shopping centers, and other commercial and residential properties; acquisition, sale and financing of loan portfolios; forming and representing limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships and joint ventures; sale-leaseback transactions; representation of REIT’s; commercial leasing; ground leasing and ground leasehold financing; and contractor, architect, broker and management agreements.

Currently, and for over a decade, Mr. Sharf has been recognized as a leading lawyer in the area of Real Estate Law by Chambers USA, where he consistently ranks in the top tier of real estate lawyers in California and nationally, and where he was recently listed as a “Star Individual.”  He is also recognized by Legal 500, where he is ranked one of the top 10 leading real estate lawyers in the United States, and also by Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America®.  In 2016, he was featured in the Who’s Who Legal listing for Real Estate Law, which recognizes outstanding practitioners in various practice areas.  In 2013, Mr. Sharf was named one of the Daily Journal’s Top Real Estate Lawyers and was featured in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Angelenos to Know in Real Estate Law.”

Jesse received his law degree from the New York University School of Law in 1986, where he was Editor of the New York University Law Review.  He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and international relations, with a minor in economics, cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982.  Jesse lives in Santa Monica with his wife, Stacy, where they are occasionally visited by their three sons, their three daughters in law, and their incredibly cute and brilliant grandson, Micah, and where Stacy has apparently prevailed over and Jesse in their ongoing battle over whether to get a dog (hint:  they don’t have one).  Jesse is a member of the Real Estate and Construction Division, and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, is the former chair of (and still very active in) the Los Angeles chapter of AIPAC’s real estate division, is on the Board of Trustees of NYU Law School and on the Advisory Board for the Jewish Theological Seminary.  He is a chair of the real estate division of Make a Wish, and is on Cedars Sinai’s Board of Governors.  Jesse is a frequent lecturer on real estate, joint venture and real estate finance.

EDUCATION

New York University - 1986 Juris Doctor

University of Pennsylvania - 1982 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

California Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - January 9, 2023 | Who’s Who Legal Recognizes 39 Gibson Dunn Partners in its Inaugural Thought Leaders USA Guide
Firm News - July 29, 2022 | Who’s Who Legal Guides Recognize 12 Real Estate Partners
Firm News - June 22, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2022 U.S. Legal 500
Firm News - June 1, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Earns 101 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2022
Firm News - August 25, 2021 | Who’s Who Legal Real Estate Guide 2021 Recognizes Nine Gibson Dunn Partners
Firm News - June 29, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2021 U.S. Legal 500
Firm News - May 20, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Earns 94 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2021
Firm News - July 6, 2020 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2020 U.S. Legal 500
Firm News - April 24, 2020 | Gibson Dunn Earns 84 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2020
Firm News - August 15, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Lawyers Recognized in the Best Lawyers in America® 2020
Firm News - July 11, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2019 U.S. Legal 500
Firm News - July 16, 2018 | Legal 500 Names 10 Gibson Dunn Partners to its US Hall of Fame
Firm News - May 3, 2018 | Gibson Dunn Earns 70 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2018
Client Alert - June 17, 2015 | Potential Impacts for EB-5 Investments in the Real Estate Sector as September 30 Deadline for Reauthorization Approaches
Client Alert - January 4, 2010 | Bankruptcy Judge Approves General Growth Properties’ Reorganization Plan
Client Alert - December 7, 2009 | Financial Regulators Encourage “Prudent” Workouts of CRE Loans
Client Alert - September 4, 2009 | In re: General Growth Properties, Inc. – Court’s Denial of Motion to Dismiss Will Affect Single Purpose Borrowers
Client Alert - March 23, 2009 | Details of Public-Private Investment Fund Released; Executive Compensation Restrictions Will Not Apply to Private Participants
Client Alert - September 30, 2008 | Financial Markets in Crisis: Understanding the Various Pricing Scenarios for the Treasury Department’s Bailout Auction Plan
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