Jon Abrams

Direct: 310.314.8803

Specialties: real estate purchase and sale transactions; secured loan transactions (borrower-side); investment structuring and negotiation; corporate entity formation and documentation; startups; real estate fund formation.

Jon Abrams has closed over $850 million in transactions since the firm’s inception in 2015.

Jon typically represents entrepreneurial real estate firms, sponsors, real estate developers, investors, startup founders and small companies. Jon’s practice focuses on real estate purchase and sale transactions, real estate syndication deals, joint ventures, investment structuring, corporate documents and secured loan transactions.

Jon works with most product classes (office, flex, hotel, spec homes, NNN, strip mall, multifamily, industrial and land parcels), and can close transactions nationwide.

Jon was previously an executive officer and General Counsel at two public real estate companies, a Senior Vice President at an entertainment studio and an attorney at an international law firm. Prior to that, Jon graduated with honors from Harvard Law School in 2001 and with honors from UC Berkeley in 1997.

Jon was part of small executive teams overseeing all company affairs at two LA-based public companies, Maguire Properties and Rexford Industrial. Those teams were responsible for managing strategic options (such as financing transactions and M&A opportunities), debt maturities, internal operations, public communications and the overall business plan. Jon also supervised the following departments at various times: legal; property management; leasing; development/entitlements; human resources; and information technology.

As General Counsel at Maguire Properties and Rexford Industrial, Jon handled all day-to-day legal matters, was responsible for legal and regulatory compliance, drafted and negotiated a wide variety of contracts and oversaw all litigation matters. As a Senior Vice President at Lionsgate Entertainment, Jon worked on matters such as financings, film library acquisitions and corporate governance. At Latham & Watkins LLP, Jon focused on general company representation. His practice included IPOs, private placements, corporate governance, and M&A transactions.

Jon has served as Chairman of Happy Trails for Kids since 2009. Happy Trails is a non-profit organization that provides a summer camp and year-round reunion events for hundreds of children in the California foster care system. Jon is married and has three young children.