Edward S West

About

An accomplished real estate attorney with significant regional and national transactional expertise, Ed West has practiced for more than 30 years in the areas of commercial leasing and property management, acquisitions and dispositions, real estate development, finance, and construction. He represents a wide variety of tenants, landlords, developers, businesses, trade associations and other not-for-profit organizations, and individuals in commercial real estate and real-estate related business transactions. During the course of his career, he has negotiated more than 17 million square feet of leases for office, retail, and industrial properties, and special use projects, and over 100 ground leases, and handled a variety of property management issues. He has also worked with a wide variety of regional clients in the development, acquisition or sale of more than $5 billion in commercial properties, including mixed-use developments and public-private partnerships. Mr. West has represented borrowers, lenders, and investors in $17.4 billion of financings, equity investments, workouts and foreclosures. He also has substantial experience with the structuring of LLCs and joint ventures, and the resolution of real estate disputes. Mr. West has also negotiated design and construction contracts for numerous office buildings, special-use facilities and interior build-outs in the D.C. metropolitan area.