Anton N Natsis

Practice Areas

A name partner of the firm, Tony is Chair of the Global Real Estate Group and is one of the top real estate attorneys in the United States. His practice focuses on development, leasing, purchase and sale, joint ventures, and portfolio investment sales transactions. He focuses on office, retail, and industrial projects. Tony also has extensive experience in arbitrating numerous fair market value disputes, CAM disputes and other significant landlord/tenant disputes, debt, equity, and joint venture workouts, and the purchase of distressed assets and distressed debt. He has a special emphasis on technology driven real estate transactions and projects, and life science transactions and projects.

Tony is continually sought out by some of the largest national land owners, such as J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Blackstone Real Estate, Brookfield Properties, Healthpeak Properties, Vornado Realty Trust, The Related Companies, The Irvine Company, Boston Properties, EQ Office, Kilroy Realty, Inc., Beacon Capital Partners, Swift Realty Partners, Hines Interests, LBA, Goldman Sachs, Hunter Properties, IQHQ, Stockbridge Real Estate, Lincoln Properties Company, CIM, Kroenke Real Estate, and Westfield Corporation.

A frequent lecturer and author, Tony is the chief consultant for the California Continuing Education of the Bar Commercial Leasing Series, the legal education reference book on leasing for California attorneys, was an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School for a course covering commercial real estate transactions, and has spoken before such national real estate groups as ULI and BOMA. Tony is a founding board member of The Ziman Real Estate Center, which is governed under the joint auspices of the UCLA Anderson School of Business and the UCLA Law School.

In the past decade, Tony has closed commercial office leases exceeding 50 million square feet of space. He has worked on real estate purchase contracts with a total consideration of more than $30 billion and on development transactions with a total consideration in excess of $25 billion. Since 2007, Tony has represented clients in office building portfolio investment sales transactions involving more than $75 billion of consideration.

One of Tony's most significant transactions is the largest real estate acquisition deal in the history of the United States. He provided extensive real estate services in connection with Blackstone Real Estate's purchase of Equity Office Properties Trust, at that point the largest owner of office space in the U.S. other than the Federal Government, for $43 billion. Subsequently, Blackstone contracted to sell over 50% of the properties it purchased with such sales closing in the first and second quarter of 2007. Tony assisted Blackstone in its acquisition due diligence related to EOP and the subsequent sales of the properties. The transactions related to this deal included Maguire Properties' purchase of Blackstone/EOP in Orange County for $2 billion, Irvine Company's purchase of Blackstone/EOP in San Diego for $1 billion, Morgan Stanley's purchase of Blackstone/EOP in San Francisco for $2.5 billion, and Beacon Capital Partners’ purchase of Blackstone/EOP Seattle for $6.3 billion.

Professional Memberships

Ziman Real Estate Center, Founding Board Member

American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), Fellow

Saint Sophia Cathedral, Board of Trustees

University of Michigan Law School, Dean’s Advisory Committee