David C. Drewes is a partner and Co-Chair of the Real Estate Department. David focuses on all types of real estate transactions, including complex acquisitions, dispositions, financings, joint ventures, restructurings, development transactions, REIT matters, ground and space leases, and construction agreements. He represents a broad variety of clients, including private developers, private equity and hedge funds, public real estate companies, lenders, preferred equity investors and other real estate investors in transactions involving all real estate asset classes, ranging from hospitality to senior housing, office buildings to residential/multifamily projects, and the acquisition, development and repositioning of retail assets.
Chambers USA (2022) ranks David among the leading individuals practicing in the area of Real Estate. In 2015, David was named a Law360 “MVP” in Real Estate. He was also named one of Law360’s “Rising Stars” in Real Estate in both 2015 and 2014. David is also recognized in the 2020 edition of The Legal 500 United States.