Clayton Gantz’s practice emphasizes real estate and financial transactions, including construction and commercial mortgage lending, real estate development, community redevelopment, public-private partnerships, corporate and commercial lending, asset-based finance, joint venture finance, affordable housing development and financing (including tax-exempt bond transactions and transactions involving the low-income housing tax credit), mezzanine and other highly leveraged financings, public finance, and capital markets transactions (including commercial mortgage loan securitizations). He has extensive experience with real estate acquisitions, sales, exchanges, financings, entitlements, ground leasing, and leasing and development across virtually all product types.

Mr. Gantz has a wealth of experience representing buyers and sellers of distressed mortgage loans, loan portfolios and REO. He routinely represents borrowers and lenders in mortgage loan restructurings and workouts. He has also formed and served as general counsel to commercial mortgage loan conduits and private equity funds.

Building on his experience as a counsel to public agencies such as the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (in connection with the Moscone Center/Yerba Buena Gardens project) and the City of Tustin (in connection with the conversion of the Marine Corps Air Station Tustin from military to civilian use), Mr. Gantz also regularly advises private developers in public-private partnerships.

Mr. Gantz represents lenders and equity providers in the financing of wineries and vineyards, and in the restructuring of those financial transactions. He is an award-winning amateur winemaker and has completed the certificate program in winemaking offered by the world-renowned Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Davis Extension for individuals employed in the wine industry. He has also developed his own vineyard, which is planted to Pinot Noir and is located in the Russian River Valley American Viticultural Area, Sonoma County, California.

Mr. Gantz’s clients have included commercial banks, investment banks and other financial institutions, residential and commercial developers, governmental agencies and real estate investors.

Mr. Gantz is a member of the firm’s Board of Directors and is the Co-Administrative Partner in the San Francisco office.