Blood, Sweat and Tears may or may not have had Isaac Newton’s law of universal gravitation in mind when they penned the lyrics to their hit song “Spinning Wheel,”—“What goes up must come down, spinning wheel got to go ‘round,”—but they did put their ...

We are going to go out on a limb and guess that almost all borrowers will have occasion, in the coming weeks and months, to speak to their mortgage lenders about impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on their operations, their loans and their properties.

Manatt real estate partner Clayton B. Gantz and Stephen B. Friedman, president of SB Friedman Development Advisors, co-authored an article titled “Public/Private Partnerships,” which appeared in the March/April issue of LandWrites.

Municipalities can do much to lay the groundwork for successful public-private partnerships in their communities.

Public/private partnerships—collaborations between the public and private sectors—are increasingly important vehicles to facilitate high-quality development and redevelopment and creation of public facilities and infrastructure.Though PPPs are not new, they are being used more widely in ...

A new report was recently published by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) called Successful Public/Private Partnerships: From Principles to Practice. The report provides valuable tools and perspectives to both the public and private sectors that will assist both sectors as they work to create vibrant ...

According to the US Department of Energy, commercial buildings account for 35 percent of US (and 40 percent of global) electricity consumption. Existing commercial buildings on average spend 30 percent of their operating budgets on operating costs and account for close to 20 percent of all global ...

Are securitized loans worth the trouble? Since becoming popular in the 1980s, commercial mortgage-backed securitization promised commercial real estate borrowers access to more loan capital, often at the most competitive interest rates. The trade-off was more complexity in loan structure and ...

Eighty-seven Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey. 

Manatt has once again been ranked among the nation’s leading law firms in Chambers’ 2024 USA Guide across 18 categories with 42 individual rankings.

Eighty-two Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey. 

Manatt has once again been ranked among the nation’s leading law firms in Chambers’ 2023 USA Guide.

Manatt will sponsor the 26th annual Wine Industry Financial Symposium taking place on September 25–26, 2017, at the Napa Valley Marriott.

Manatt will host an invitation-only program, "The Good, the Bad and the Unknown - The Affordable Care Act's Impact on Employer-Provided Healthcare" on Thursday, May 30 in Manatt's San Francisco office.

Manatt Partner Clay Gantz will be speaking on the topic of "Trouble in the Commercial Real Estate Debt Markets--Opportunity or Threat?" at a joint meeting of the San Francisco District Council of the Urban Land Institute (the preeminent, multidisciplinary real estate forum) and CoreNet Global (the ...