Education

University of California, Los Angeles, J.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, M.B.A.
Stanford University, B.A.

Bar Admissions

California

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Susan Jennifer Booth

Partner
Los Angeles
t: 213-896-2540

Susan J. Booth is the head of the West Coast Real Estate Group. Ms. Booth counsels domestic and international commercial banks, pension funds, private equity funds and REITs on a variety of real-estate matters, ranging from secured lending transactions (acquisition, development, construction, revolving, permanent, mezzanine and Shari'ah compliant), post-financing asset management, workouts, deeds-in-lieu and REOs. Ms. Booth has extensive experience in negotiating, drafting and successfully closing large commercial financing transactions involving shopping centers, hotels, condominiums, office buildings, industrial parks, senior-living centers and residential, commercial and mixed-use developments. She has also devoted a substantial amount of time to assisting lenders in developing and implementing strategies to resolve the issues arising from non-performing assets. Additionally, Ms. Booth has experience with commercial purchase/sale transactions, leasing and property management.

Ms. Booth has organized, written and edited materials, and been a speaker on numerous programs (in California and nationally), on such topics as fundamentals of loan workouts, evaluating troubled real estate assets, assessing a lender's pre-foreclosure options for distressed real estate assets, understanding purchase and sale agreements, financing ground lease transactions, risks and pitfalls in hotel and condotel financing, navigating through California's anti-deficiency laws, loan workouts (before and after bankruptcy), providing a roadmap through the defeasance process, trends in debt and equity markets and the impact on a real estate lender resulting from the unenforceability of a jury trial waiver in California.

Professional Honors & Awards

  • University of California, Los Angeles Law Review, Managing Editor
  • Dean's List, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, University of California, Los Angeles
  • National Merit Scholar, Stanford
  • Fellow, American College of Mortgage Attorneys

Memberships

  • Los Angeles County Bar, Executive Committee, Real Estate Section
  • Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium on Real Estate Law and Business, Planning Committee

Published Articles & Books