Chauncey Swalwell

Practice Areas

Chauncey Swalwell, a partner in Goodwin’s Real Estate Industry group, focuses his practice on commercial real estate and represents private and institutional investors and lenders in connection with the acquisition, sale, development, leasing and financing of hotels, student housing facilities, industrial parks, office buildings, regional shopping centers and other projects, including the structuring of complex transactions involving public and private REITs, TICs, and other investment and lending vehicles.

Chauncey has extensive experience structuring and negotiating joint venture agreements on behalf of private equity and institutional investors and promoters in a broad array of real estate transactions. He also represents both lenders and borrowers in negotiating a variety of commercial lending transactions, including the origination and restructuring of such transactions. In addition, his practice includes representing both buyers and sellers in the negotiation of purchase and sale contracts, along with a wide range of other real estate-related transactions and issues.

Chauncey has expertise in the intricacies of California’s unique foreclosure framework, including the so-called "one action" and "anti-deficiency" statutes and their effect on the rights and remedies of lenders, borrowers and guarantors. He has also been involved in numerous judicial foreclosure, receivership, and other real estate-related litigation matters.

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JD, Loyola Law School Los Angeles, 1990; BA, University of California Los Angeles, 1986.