People: Mark Mengelberg, Partner

Mark Mengelberg

Partner

San Francisco
Direct: (415) 544-1013
Fax: (415) 397-8549
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Mr. Mengelberg is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group in the San Francisco office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Mr. Mengelberg’s practice spans the entire spectrum of transactional real estate, including acquisitions and dispositions, financing, development, joint venture formation, and leasing as well as loan enforcement and loan foreclosures. Mr. Mengelberg’s real property acquisitions and dispositions practice includes complex purchase, sale and 1031 exchange transactions. His leasing practice includes the representation of both landlords and tenants in leases of office, industrial and retail space located throughout the United States. His financing experience includes representing borrowers and lenders on the origination of real property secured loans and mezzanine loans, the negotiation of swap agreements and other derivatives contracts, and loan servicing matters. Mr. Mengelberg has extensive experience in the restructuring of distressed loans, enforcing defaulted loans and the California foreclosure process. Mr. Mengelberg has also represented both developers and investors in the structuring and formation of complex joint ventures (using LLC’s, partnerships, and TIC structures) as well as the negotiation and preparation of development agreements, construction contracts, completion guaranties, CC&Rs, easements, and management agreements.

Mr. Mengelberg is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group in the San Francisco office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Mr. Mengelberg’s practice spans the entire spectrum of transactional real estate, including acquisitions and dispositions, financing, development, joint venture formation, and leasing as well as loan enforcement and loan foreclosures. Mr. Mengelberg’s real property acquisitions and dispositions practice includes complex purchase, sale and 1031 exchange transactions. His leasing practice includes the representation of both landlords and tenants in leases of office, industrial and retail space located throughout the United States. His financing experience includes representing borrowers and lenders on the origination of real property secured loans and mezzanine loans, the negotiation of swap agreements and other derivatives contracts, and loan servicing matters. Mr. Mengelberg has extensive experience in the restructuring of distressed loans, enforcing defaulted loans and the California foreclosure process. Mr. Mengelberg has also represented both developers and investors in the structuring and formation of complex joint ventures (using LLC’s, partnerships, and TIC structures) as well as the negotiation and preparation of development agreements, construction contracts, completion guaranties, CC&Rs, easements, and management agreements.

Education

  • LL.M., University of Miami School of Law (1999)
    Real Property Development
  • J.D., University of Oregon School of Law (1998)
  • B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara (1994)
    with honors

Admissions

  • California

Publications

  • "Proceed With Caution:  Enforcing a Defaulted Loan Within the Framework of California's One Action Rule," Real Estate Finance, (August 2008) co-author
  • "Traps For Unwary Lenders:  California Mechanics Lien Laws," Seyfarth Shaw LLP Real Estate Financial Report, (Fall 2008) co-author
  • "Predispute Contractual Waivers of Jury Trial," ALM Law Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3 (January 2007)
  • "25 Years of Commercial Leasing:  What a Long, Strange Cyclical Trip It Has Been," California Real Property Journal, Vol. 24, No 3 (2006) co-author