DLA Piper Adds Two Real Estate Partners

June 23, 2014 – DLA Piper announced today that Kevin Lytle and Craig Cartwright have joined the firm’s Real Estate practice as partners in the Phoenix office.

Lytle and Cartwright have a diverse real estate transactional practice focused on representing public and private real estate investment vehicles and other commercial entities. Over the past three years, they have handled over US$4 billion in portfolio and single asset transactions.

Lytle represents public and private real estate investment trusts, other commercial entities and individuals. His experience extends to all aspects of sales and acquisitions, leases, sale-leasebacks, construction and permanent loans, acquisition loans, refinancings, loan and lease modifications and workouts and intercreditor agreements. He also has experience in business entity creation, including bankruptcy-remote structuring and commercial landlord-tenant law.

Cartwright advises clients on a broad range of transactional real estate matters, including secured lending, property development, commercial leasing, sales and acquisitions, entity formation, bankruptcy workouts and construction-related matters.

“Kevin and Craig are both renowned lawyers whose talents will not just expand the firm’s world-class real estate practice, but complement our M&A activities in the region, where there continue to be a wide range of opportunities,” said Steven Pidgeon, co-managing partner of DLA Piper’s Phoenix office. “We welcome them to the firm.”

“We are thrilled to have Kevin and Craig join our practice,” added Jay Epstien, chair of DLA Piper’s US Real Estate practice and co-chair of the Global Real Estate practice. “Our one-of-a-kind global platform matches well with the sophisticated matters in which they, and their clients, are involved.”

Both lawyers join the firm from Snell & Wilmer LLP. Lytle earned a B.S. and J.D. from the University of Nebraska, and Cartwright earned a B.S. and J.D. from the University of Kansas.

DLA Piper's Phoenix office was established in February 2007. With lawyers handling corporate, litigation, and international arbitration matters the office serves a growing list of local, regional and global businesses. To date, DLA Piper’s Phoenix office has handled transactions valued at more than $12 billion, and a number of high-profile litigation and arbitration matters around the world.

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