Karolina A Ericsson

Karolina (Lina) Ericsson’s practice focuses on a wide array of real estate matters, ranging from managing all facets of large real estate transactions involving shopping centers, office parks, apartment complexes and hotels to negotiating easements and resolving complicated title issues. She particularly enjoys working as a partner to new businesses as they expand and grow by negotiating leases, handling acquisitions and developing solid internal infrastructure for the organizations.

Ms. Ericsson has handled multi-million dollar acquisitions and dispositions for both Fortune 500 companies and smaller investors. She is adept at managing the many issues that arise in the acquisition of large portfolio properties, and has developed streamlined processes for vetting due diligence issues arising under leases, CC&Rs, Phase I’s and other survey issues. She is also creative about mitigating risk and resolving due diligence issues through the use of escrow holdback agreements.

Ms. Ericsson has extensive experience negotiating leases on behalf of both tenants and landlords with respect to office, retail and industrial properties. From long-term ground leases of out-parcels in shopping centers to large industrial leases of entire buildings to smaller space leases in office buildings, she is committed to protecting the interests of her clients while taking commercially reasonable positions that facilitate a more streamlined negotiation. She has represented restaurants, coffee shops, manufacturers, laboratories and high-tech businesses, and appreciates the special lease issues and considerations innate to each business type.

Her practice also includes representing developers in connection with both new commercial and residential developments, negotiating purchase and sale agreements, conducting the due diligence on title and land use issues, and negotiating joint development agreements and profit participation agreements.

Ms. Ericsson also has experience in affordable housing, with expertise in tenant-in-common syndications of large investment properties. She is well-versed in complicated restructurings for both affordable housing partnerships and tenant-in-common properties, including loan work-outs.

While at Stanford Law School, she was President of the Stanford Law & Policy Review and a recipient of the Foundation of the State Bar of California scholarship. Ms. Ericsson served as a law clerk to the (late) Honorable Napoleon A. Jones, Jr. of the United States District Court, Southern District. During law school, she served as a legal intern in the White House Office of Counsel under President Clinton's general counsel, Charles Ruff.