Steven Dettmann

Steven Dettmann is a real estate transactional attorney with broad experience in complex real property transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financing, development, construction and leasing.

Mr. Dettmann joined Jackson DeMarco Tidus Peckenpaugh in 2008 from the legal department of Playa Vista, where he had been in-house counsel for seven years and held the position of Vice President/Assistant General Counsel.  While with 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.

Mr. Dettmann has substantial experience representing individual and institutional clients in acquiring and selling commercial, retail, industrial, hospitality, resort, golf course and residential properties, and representing land developer clients throughout California in the disposition of building sites in master-planned communities.

Prior to Playa Vista, Mr. Dettmann practiced for six 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 and permanent loans, mezzanine financings and other credit 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 banks and institutional investors in acquiring and selling performing and distressed loan portfolios.