Known for his ability to navigate every stage of complex real estate matters, David Egdal is a practical, hands-on attorney with national experience across a broad range of real estate and corporate transactions.
David represents lenders, borrowers, funds and investors in transactions spanning financing, acquisitions, joint ventures and distressed asset resolutions. Prior to joining Shartsis Friese, he practiced real estate law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and served as a paramedic in the San Francisco Fire Department. For clients ranging from financial institutions to vineyard owners, he combines his understanding of real estate and financing structures with his deep industry knowledge of his clients’ businesses to effectively complete transactions and resolve issues.
Outside of work, he spends time with his three children and a mischievous dog in San Francisco.
David represents both institutional and non-institutional lenders, REITs, real estate funds, borrowers and investors in all areas of real estate transactions. His work includes mortgage, mezzanine and preferred equity financing; repurchase and other leverage facilities; the formation and representation of limited liability companies and other joint ventures. He also handles acquisitions and dispositions of hotel, office, data center, industrial, multifamily, winery, vineyard and other agricultural properties, including both direct and entity level transfers.
David has significant national experience representing lenders and borrowers in distressed situations, including acquiring and restructuring debt, forbearance and tolling agreements, loan workouts and restructurings. He also advises on loan enforcement, foreclosures and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure, as well as dispositions of mezzanine loans and other personal property collateral under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
As part of his wine and vineyard practice, David regularly counsels family owned, privately held, and publicly traded wine industry clients on real estate and general business matters. He guides clients through the acquisition, financing, and disposition of wine companies, wineries, and premium vineyard properties, as well as related operational issues. He also represents these clients in the negotiation of winery and vineyard leases, vineyard management agreements, and grape purchase agreements.
Lenders, including credit-focused investment funds, and borrowers engage David to negotiate and document secured and unsecured credit facilities and other debt financings unrelated to real estate. This includes corporate credit facilities, participations and other structured financings, and loan-on-loan transactions.