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Mr. Scott Adair Morehouse

About Mr. Scott Adair Morehouse

Mr. Scott Adair Morehouse is a lawyer practicing real estate, energy, land use & environmental, commercial leasing, distressed real estate loan workouts and enforcement and 7 other areas of law. Scott received a B.A. degree from University of Massachusetts in 1990, and has been licensed for 33 years. Scott practices at Sheppard Mullin in Costa Mesa, CA.

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Areas of Law

  • Real Estate 1
    • Commercial Leasing
  • Other 9
    • Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental
    • Distressed Real Estate Loan Workouts and Enforcement
    • Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions
    • Real Estate Portfolio Transactions
    • Commercial Lending and Financial Transactions
    • Hospitality
    • Multifamily Housing
    • Private Equity
    • REIT

Practice Details

  • Firm Information
    Position
    Partner
    Firm Name
    Sheppard Mullin
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Experience: Representative Acquisitions & Dispositions: Represented a bank in the launch of a real estate fund to acquire
    manage up to $90 million in low-income workforce housing apartment communities throughout Southern California.
    Represented a REIT in acquisitions
    dispositions of multifamily, office
    hotel assets.
    Represented Keppel-Pacific Oak US REIT in the acquisition of office buildings in Dallas
    Florida.
    Represented Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity REIT, Inc. in numerous sales transactions, including the $45 million sale of a high-rise apartment tower in New York
    the $100 million sale of an office complex in Texas

    the $50 million sale of an office building in Florida.
    Representative Joint Ventures: Represented a real estate investor in connection with the formation of a joint venture to purchase a multifamily property in Santa Monica, California.
    Represented a Dallas-based real estate private equity fund in connection with the negotiation of joint ventures formed for the acquisition
    redevelopment of a warehouse project in Brooklyn
    the acquisition
    development of a multifamily project in California.
    Represented a real estate developer in connection with the renegotiation
    restructuring of eight joint ventures that own over $2 billion of assets in Northern California.
    Represented a privately-owned real estate developer, as sponsor, in connection with a joint venture to construct a multifamily project in Hollywood, California. The venture was later restructured to take out the original equity provider after completion of the project.
    Represented a Singapore REIT with the structuring
    negotiation of a joint venture to develop a multifamily project in an air rights parcel in Bellevue, Washington.
    Represented a private real estate firm in connection with the acquisition
    development of the largest multifamily project in Palo Alto, California.
    Represented a real estate investor, as sponsor, in connection with the formation of a joint venture to purchase a multifamily property in Newport Beach, California.
    Represented a REIT in connection with a joint venture to acquire an office tower in New York City.
    Represented a REIT in connection with a joint venture to acquire an office tower in the San Francisco financial district.
    Represented a REIT in connection with a joint venture to acquire a multifamily tower in Brooklyn, New York.
    Represented a Spanish energy company in connection with the restructuring of a joint venture with a Danish energy company to divide wind turbine project rights in the Atlantic Ocean between the partners.
    Representing an operating partner in a programmatic joint venture to acquire
    develop multifamily
    town home projects in California with a global private investment firm.
    Represented an operating partner in a programmatic joint venture to acquire
    reposition office buildings as live/work or multifamily projects.
    Represented an operating partner in a programmatic joint venture to acquire medical office buildings throughout the United States.
    Represented a REIT, as the investor partner, in connection with the acquisition of a large apartment project in Los Angeles, California.
    Represented a REIT, as the investor partner, in connection with the acquisition of a hotel in New Orleans.
    Represented a REIT, as the investor partner, in connection with the acquisition of a hotel in South Carolina.
    Represented a privately-owned real estate developer, as sponsor, in connection to construct a multifamily project in Los Angeles, California.
    Represented a REIT, as the investor partner, in connection with a joint venture formed to construct an office tower in New York City.
    Represented a REIT, as the investor partner, in connection with two joint ventures to acquire two office buildings
    two structures in Richardson, Texas
    87 acres of l
    entitled for hotel, multifamily
    office uses.
    Represented a REIT, as the investor partner, in connection with two joint ventures to acquire over 2,000 acres in a master planned community in Las Vegas, Nevada at a bankruptcy auction.
    Represented a private real estate developer, as sponsor, in connection with a joint venture to acquire
    reposition an office building to live/work lofts in Northern Virginia.
    Represented a private equity investor, as sponsor, in connection with a joint venture to acquire
    reposition three office buildings to apartments in Northern Virginia.
    Represented a private real estate developer, as sponsor, in connection with a joint venture to acquire
    redevelop two contiguous office buildings as live/work lofts in Northern Virginia.
    Represented a private equity company, as sponsor, in connection with a joint venture to acquire
    redevelop a suburban office building as an apartment project in Alex
    ria, Virginia.
    Represented a private equity company, as sponsor, in connection with a programmatic joint venture to acquire office buildings or l
    to be developed as live/work or apartment projects in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
    Representing a French private equity company, as sponsor, in connection with the acquisition of an office tower in Washington, D.C. that will be converted to residential apartments.
    Represented a REIT, as investor partner, in connection with a joint venture to acquire a 6-building office park in Phoenix, Arizona.
    Represented a private real estate company in connection several 'co-GP' joint ventures formed to invest in a series of programmatic joint ventures developing multifamily projects in the mid-west.
    Represented a private equity investor, as investor partner, in connection with three separate joint ventures formed to develop workforce housing in Texas. The transactions were structured as DSTs.
    Represented a private equity opportunity zone fund, as investor partner, in connection with four separate joint ventures formed to acquire
    develop multifamily projects in opportunity zones in Arizona.
    Representing a private equity company in connection with the formation of a programmatic joint venture to acquire
    convert office buildings to residential projects throughout the United States.
    Represented a private investor in connection with the investment of preferred equity into a master planned community in Northern California.

Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    2006, California
    1994, District of Columbia
    1993, Virginia
    Memberships

    Memberships

    NAIOP SoCal Board of Directors, 2024

  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    Georgetown University Law Center
    Class of 1993
    J.D.
    Other Education
    University of Massachusetts
    Class of 1990
    B.A.
    summa cum laude

    University of Massachusetts
    Class of 1990
    B.A.
    Phi Beta Kappa
  • Personal Details & History
    Age
    Born in 1967
    November 28, 1967
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