For more than 30 years, Barbara Gregoratos has had a broad transactional real estate practice. She represents domestic and foreign clients (including sovereign wealth funds), financial institutions, property companies, and corporate users in various transactions, including purchases and sales of commercial properties (including REO sales for national banks), fund investment, negotiating joint venture arrangements for development, acquisition, or investment in real estate-related assets, financings, and various types of leasing transactions, including ground leases and build-to-suit leases.
Barbara is the chair of the International Investments in Real Estate Committee (a committee of the Special Investors and Investment Structure Group of the ABA's Real Property Section) (2015-2018) and previously was a vice chair of that committee (2012-2015). She coauthored a chapter titled "Considerations in Structuring a Real Estate Fund," published by Aspatore Press (2008) in Inside the Minds: Fund Formation Strategies and authored a "Real Estate Practical Guidance" module and accompanying transactional forms for Lexis Practice Advisor, a Matthew Bender online resource (2012).
Barbara was a speaker at the 2011 ABA Annual Meeting, and at the 2012 and 2015 ABA Real Property Section Spring Symposia, in presentations sponsored by the ABA's Real Property Section Committee on International Transactions. She was a program co-chair for an international leasing presentation at the 2017 RPTE Spring Symposia. She has been listed in Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition and in Northern California Super Lawyers numerous times.
Experience
Speaking Engagements
- April 2015
ABA Real Property Section Spring Symposia - May 2012
RPTE Annual Spring Symposia - August 2011
ABA Annual Meeting
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D. magna cum laude 1987; Order of the Coif; Member, Hastings Law Journal); University of California, Davis (A.B. in Russian Literature and History)
- California
- Extern to the Honorable Joseph Grodin, California Supreme Court (Spring 1987)