Accomplished Real Estate Attorneys David B. Roseman and Mark Mengelberg Join Seyfarth Shaw as Partners in San Francisco

San Francisco (July 11, 2006) - - Seyfarth Shaw LLP, one of America’s leading full service law firms, announced that David B. Roseman and Mark Mengelberg have joined the firm as partners in San Francisco.  Prior to joining Seyfarth Shaw, Roseman was a partner with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Mengelberg was with Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory and Natsis LLP.  Along with earlier important geographic additions to Seyfarth Shaw's real estate group over the past 12 months, their addition to the west coast practice emphasizes the firm's strong commitment to meeting the increasing client demand for real estate representation in California.  Roseman and Mengelberg will join to solidify Seyfarth’s national practice which includes more than 86 real estate attorneys who are strategically located throughout the United States in business centers such as Chicago, Boston, New York, Washington D.C., Atlanta and Los Angeles.

Roseman and Mengelberg have successfully served clients in all areas of transactional real estate law, including leasing, purchase and sale, financing, development, and joint venture structuring and formation.  Each attorney has extensive experience representing developers of large commercial and residential projects throughout California. In addition, they each have strong leasing and capital transaction practices that they are bringing to Seyfarth Shaw.

“Because David and Mark have such broad practices, we feel they make a perfect fit for our firm,” stated J. Kelly Bufton, chair of the firm’s real estate group. “Their addition to the firm will both meet the extensive California real estate needs of existing clients as well as expand our real estate client base to include more California-centric real estate companies. This is a crucial development in our firm’s ability to provide our clients with full service real estate representation in every part of the United States.”  

Seyfarth Shaw’s real estate practice spans the full spectrum of commercial real estate transactions.  The group’s national client base includes firms that have real estate as their key business, such as REITs, pension fund advisors, developers, lenders and builders, and companies for whom real estate is an ancillary but crucial aspect of their business, including hoteliers, retailers, service companies, and manufacturers. 

“I am delighted to welcome David and Mark to our San Francisco office and the firm’s expanding real estate practice,” noted Nick C. Geannacopulos, managing partner of Seyfarth Shaw’s San Francisco office. “They both have significant experience in the real estate industry and the west coast marketplace.  Their addition to the firm immediately enhances the levels of service we can provide our clients to meet their California real estate needs.”

Roseman, a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco and the American Bar Association,   is admitted to practice law in California and New York. He holds an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Duke University and earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University.  Roseman was selected as a 2006 (and 2005) Northern California Super Lawyer by San Francisco and Law & Politics Magazines, which annually select five percent of Northern California attorneys for this honor.

“My move to Seyfarth Shaw is an excellent opportunity to integrate my real estate expertise with a firm possessing and committed to retaining a strong national real estate practice,” said Roseman. “At a time when many national law firms are marginalizing their real estate practices, Seyfarth Shaw has chosen to go the other direction and make it a core practice area for the firm. Seyfarth Shaw provides the perfect platform for me to serve my existing California and national clients, and to expand my practice by servicing the firm’s national clients in their California real estate endeavors.”  He added, “I am thrilled that Mark Mengelberg has joined me in this move. Mark is one of the stars of the new generation of seasoned California real estate attorneys.”

Mengelberg received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law. He also holds a Masters of Law in Real Property Development from the University of Miami School of Law.

Seyfarth Shaw has over 650 attorneys located in nine offices throughout the United States including Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento as well as Brussels and Belgium.  In addition to real estate, the firm provides a broad range of legal services in the areas of labor and employment, employee benefits, litigation and business services, and its practice reflects virtually every industry and segment of the country’s business community. Clients include over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, real estate companies, newspapers and other media, hotels, health care organizations, airlines and railroads. Seyfarth Shaw also represents a number of federal, state, and local governmental and educational entities.  For more information, please visit www.seyfarth.com.

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