Michael H. Davis is the Deputy Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Los Angeles office and Co-Chair of the Los Angeles Real Estate Practice. His practice includes representing real estate funds, REITs, debt funds, institutional and non-institutional real estate investors, developers, operators, and financial institutions in a broad range of matters including senior, mezzanine, construction, bridge and secondary market financings, including A/B, note-on-note, senior/mezzanine bifurcations and repurchase transactions; negotiating joint venture agreements and representing joint ventures; acquisitions and dispositions of a variety of real estate asset classes including multifamily, office, retail, film studios and soundstages, student housing, self-storage, industrial senior housing, hotels and resorts, timeshares and condominiums; structuring and representing real estate private equity funds; and commercial leasing, including ground leasing, retail, restaurant, industrial and office leasing.
Concentrations
•Real estate finance
•Joint ventures
•Real estate private equity
•Real estate debt funds
•Opportunity zone investments
•Acquisitions and dispositions
•Leasing
Recognition & Leadership
Awards & Accolades
•Listed, Lawdragon, 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, 2024-2025
•Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Real Estate - Real Estate Finance, 2024-2025
•Listed, Bloomberg Law, “They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40,” 2022
•Listed, Law360, “Rising Stars: Real Estate,” 2022
•Listed, Chambers USA Guide, Real Estate, 2021-2025
•'Up and Coming,' 2021-2024
•Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, 'Ones to Watch,' Real Estate Law, 2021-2025
•Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Southern California Super Lawyers, 'Rising Stars,' 2020-2025
•Listed, Euromoney, Rising Stars, “Rising Star - Americas,” 2020
•Listed, The National Black Lawyers, Top 100, 2022
•Featured, Bisnow, “24 Black Executives Shaping Commercial Real Estate,” 2020
•Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2022, 2018,2017, 2013, and 2010
•Team Member, a Law360 'Real Estate Practice Group of the Year,' 2015, 2022, and 2023