{"id":21,"date":"2024-06-11T10:13:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T10:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sorlo.net\/kbllawyers\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2024-06-19T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T09:52:59","slug":"paul-kawakami","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sorlo.net\/kbllawyers\/paul-kawakami\/","title":{"rendered":"PAUL KAWAKAMI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul M. Kawakami<\/h4><\/span>
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315 Montgomery Street
\n9th Floor
\nSan Francisco, CA 94104<\/p>\n

Tel:<\/strong>\u00a0415.829.4272
\nFax:<\/strong>\u00a0415.449.3622
\nEmail:<\/strong>\u00a0Kawakami@KBLLawyers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Paul Kawakami\u2019s practice covers a wide range of real estate transactional and business matters. He specializes in the acquisition, development, sale and exchange of commercial and multi-family real estate; retail, office and industrial leasing; real estate financing and secured transactions, including acquisition, construction, mezzanine and permanent loans; loan modifications, workouts and restructurings; and the formation of joint ventures and LLCs.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kawakami represents developers, investors, institutional lenders, end-users, and educational institutions with respect to transactions involving shopping centers, restaurants, urban campuses,\u00a0mixed-use complexes, office buildings, big box retail stores, hotels, build-to-suit facilities, apartment buildings, office parks, professional centers and industrial sites.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kawakami\u2019s representative transactions include: representing developers, financial institutions, insurance companies, and other owners of office and industrial buildings and shopping centers located throughout California; assisting a private university and a film studio with all of their respective real estate needs, including land acquisition and disposition, ancillary office space leases, and other issues relating to their urban campuses and satellite locations; representing national big box retail chains in the acquisition, development, sale, and exchange of sites throughout the Western United States; representing both owners and tenants in the drafting and negotiation of ground leases and space lease for office, retail, and industrial uses; represent both lenders and borrowers with respect to new financing transactions and the workout and restructuring of existing debt; and assisting a client acquire, finance, operate and dispose of hotels throughout the United States.<\/p>\n

Affiliations, Activities and Accomplishments<\/h4>\n

Mr. Kawakami is admitted to practice in California. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the International Council of Shopping Centers, and the Urban Land Institute. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of California, and is the Editor of the Section\u2019s E-Bulletin, which is a summary of notable cases, changes in the law, and other recent developments of interest that is emailed monthly to the approximately 6,000 members of the Section.\u00a0 He is also a member of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, and is the co-chair of the Real Estate Committee of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.<\/p>\n

Presentations and Publications<\/h4>\n

Mr. Kawakami frequently publishes articles and gives lectures on real estate and diversity matters.<\/p>\n

Recent presentations include: \u201cLegal Issues And Opportunities In Acquiring Distressed Assets\u201d, \u201cHot Tips and New Issues on Loan Workouts,\u201d moderating a panel of leading industry experts for an Urban Land Institute program titled \u201cSecrets of the Dealmakers,\u201d and moderating a panel of lawyers and law school professionals at the Diversity Symposium presented by Sedgwick LLP in 2011.<\/p>\n

Admissions<\/h4>\n

California; U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.)<\/p>\n

Education<\/h4>\n

J.D. (1983) University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
\nB.A. (1980) University of California at Davis,\u00a0with honors<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sorlo.net\/kbllawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sorlo.net\/kbllawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sorlo.net\/kbllawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sorlo.net\/kbllawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sorlo.net\/kbllawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sorlo.net\/kbllawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/sorlo.net\/kbllawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sorlo.net\/kbllawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}