Dustin Calkins

Dustin Calkins leverages his significant experience in representing leading public and private, and national and international real estate investors, developers, operators and sponsors on a broad array of commercial assets, including industrial, mixed-use, multifamily, office, hospitality, sports venues, and retail properties.

Dustin guides clients throughout the lifecycle of their real estate investments and provides practical and succinct legal advice. He assists clients in forming joint ventures for large-scale investments, developments, recapitalizations, and financings. Dustin advises on acquisitions and dispositions from single assets to billion-dollar national portfolios, ground-up developments and large-scale redevelopments, commercial leases, and complex loan facilities.

Represented:

• The Board of Regents of the University of California on the UC Davis Aggie Square mixed-use development project, located on the UC Davis Sacramento campus, valued at $620 million.*
• DWS Group/RREEF Property Trust on the acquisition of a 49% stockholder interest in 525 Market Street, an office tower in San Francisco. Also advised on a complex conversion of the property owner into a private REIT and the $682 million CMBS loan.*
• A private equity fund on its more than $400 million disposition of its multifamily development portfolio across multiple markets.

• Recognized in Northern California Real Estate, Band 3 – Chambers USA
• Recognized in Real Estate Law – Best Lawyers
• A "Recommended Lawyer" in Real Estate – The Legal 500 US
• A "Recognized Practitioner" in Northern California Real Estate – Chambers USA
• A "Rising Star" in Real Estate – Euromoney Legal Media Group
• "Up and Coming" in California Real Estate – Chambers USA
• An "Associate to Watch" in California Real Estate – Chambers USA

• University of Michigan Law School, JD
• University of Michigan, BA

• California
• Illinois

• Member, Policy Advisory Board of the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
• Member, Urban Land Institute