Alan C Gennis

Practice Areas

Commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, as well as commercial leasing

Career

Alan Gennis’s real estate practice emphasizes acquisitions and dispositions, as well as commercial leasing matters. With an M.B.A. and experience in the business world, Alan has special insight into the complexities and challenges his clients face. Working with impeccable responsiveness, he assists his clients in getting their transactions completed quickly and effectively.

Alan has nearly 35 years of experience in negotiating and drafting purchase and sale, lease, construction, and finance documents for Fortune 500 Companies, technology companies, and both large institutional and smaller real estate developers. He has represented national real estate companies, such as Equity Office, Lincoln Property Company, The Carlyle Group and Grosvenor Americas, in various development, leasing and purchase and sale transactions in Northern California. He is the firm’s lead transactional real estate partner in its representation of the San Francisco 49ers with respect to its leasing of Levi’s® Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Alan is also the firm’s lead real estate partner in its representation of Uber in connection with the development of its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, and he also represents Sunset Development Company in connection with its leasing of more than 6 million square feet of office space at Bishop Ranch.

Professional Memberships

Alan is a member of the Real Property Sections of both the American Bar Association and the California State Bar. He has spoken on leasing issues at professional conferences, has authored articles on complex leasing issues, and, for more than ten years, was the contributing author of the California chapter of the State by State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases (CCH Incorporated).

Education