Attorneys

Steven J. Dettmann is a real estate transactional lawyer with a wide range of experience in real property acquisitions, dispositions, financing, development, construction and leasing. Mr. Dettmann joined JDTP from the legal department of Playa Vista, where he had been in-house counsel for six years and had attained the position of Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. While at Playa Vista, he was principally responsible for the legal aspects of the master developer's disposition of building sites to merchant builders, the formation and administration of joint ventures, negotiating and closing the company's pre-development and working capital financing and infrastructure construction loans, drafting and negotiating contracts with contactors and consultants, negotiating and administrating commercial and retail leases, overseeing property owner association and community service organization start-up operations, and administering the owner-controlled insurance program. Prior to Playa Vista, Mr. Dettmann practiced for seven years in Downtown Los Angeles in the real estate practice group of a multi-national law firm. While there, a substantial portion of Mr. Dettmann's practice included representing banks and commercial lenders in originating construction financing, permanent loans, mezzanine financing and other loan facilities (in amounts up to $350,000,000) secured by interests in commercial, retail, office, hospitality and multi-family residential property. Mr. Dettmann also represented various banking clients in the acquiring and selling performing and distressed loan pools. Mr. Dettmann has substantial experience representing institutional clients in the acquisition and disposition of commercial, retail, industrial, utility, hospitality, resort and residential properties (ranging in price up to $800,000,000), and representing master developer clients throughout California in the disposition of building sites.