W. Stephen Wilson
Of counsel
Steve is of counsel in the real estate team.
Steve Wilson has 46 years of continuous experience in transactional real estate law.
He also has substantial experience in corporate, general business and non-profit law. He has held the esteemed Martindale-Hubbell “AV” (“preeminent”) peer designation for many years.
In the superheated West Coast real estate environment, he augments his technical knowledge by providing the business judgment and perspective that a seasoned institutional real estate executive would provide. Much of his current professional focus is on complex, value-added urban mixed-use projects and joint ventures, with recent focus on project planning in Qualified Opportunity Zones. Another and longtime focus is assisting nonprofit or charitable organizations (including religious organizations) seeking to monetize their land holdings in a way which incorporates a charitable or public benefit. Steve’s clients routinely comment that he is “their other partner”.
Other significant capabilities include real estate tax issues, entity formation/asset management for portfolio owners, restructuring and securitization of holdings, entitlement work, purchases and sales, commercial leasing and title matters. Many clients are offshore investors who benefit greatly from his guidance. In the corporate and general business realm, he has successfully handled numerous mid-market merger and acquisition transactions as well as formation and capitalization advice for many start-up and growth stage companies.
Steve has been an expert witness in two recent, significant jury trials involving real estate issues. In the recent past, he advised a major state-controlled Vietnamese bank in its successful first business venture in the U.S, advised the country’s national airline and advised a PRC state-owned real estate investment entity.
Steve has traveled widely on business in Asia, and for 10 years led post-Perestroika humanitarian orphanage support work in the Ryazan region of CIS. His humanitarian endeavors have also included Africa and South America. In 2013, he lectured Chambers of Commerce throughout Indonesia on trade with the US. In 2017, he was a member of the San Francisco Mayor’s economic and trade delegation to Vietnam.
往績記錄
執業資格
發表篇章
會員身份
公開活動
Earlier in his career, Steve actively litigated for property owners and real estate professionals, and was responsible for decisions which heavily influenced the real estate industry.
Easton v. Strassburger (1984) 152 Cal. App. 3d 90, established the modern standard for residential real estate disclosure.
Twain Harte Associates, Ltd. v. County of Tuolumne (1990) 217 Cal. App. 3d 71, is one of the most-cited cases in the area of downzoning.
‘Qualified Opportunity Zones: Promise Remains (Or Does It?)’ Thomson Reuters’ Taxation of Exempts - November/December 2020, co-author
‘Qualified Opportunity Zones: Promise Remains (Or Does It?)’ Thomson Reuters’ Practical Tax Strategies - November 2020, co-author
‘California’s Proposition 15 to impact owners of non-exempt commercial and industrial real estate,’ Withers Insight - October 26, 2020, co-author
Stanford Professionals in Real Estate (formation team, charter member)
Board Member, Asian Pacific American Heritage (APAH) Foundation
Board Member, HealthRight 360 Foundation
‘Qualified Opportunity Zones After Four Years: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly,’ CalCPA Real Estate Conference, Burlingame, CA, November 2021
‘A Top-Down View of US Real Estate Acquisition by Offshore Investors,’ CalCPA International Tax Committee (ITAX), San Francisco, CA, August 2017
Qualified Opportunity Zones (18 presentations since October 2018)
個人簡介
Life in law for me is generative
學歷背景
語言
- English