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Overview
Steve Berkman is a partner in the Real Estate practice of the Paul Hastings San Francisco office. His practice primarily consists of representing institutional owners and corporate users of various types of real estate assets, both nationally and internationally. Mr. Berkman has extensive experience representing major corporate users of real estate, advising on headquarters and other facilities acquisitions and leasing (including some of the largest headquarters transactions in the Bay Area), sale/leaseback transactions, ground leases, and disposition of excess property. He also spends significant time representing buyers and sellers of major office, retail, apartment, industrial, gaming, and hospitality projects, whether in single asset or portfolio transactions.
As part of his real estate practice, Mr. Berkman has developed a nationally recognized practice representing users, operators, and private equity investors with respect to the development, leasing, and operation of data centers.
Recognitions
- Chambers USA, Northern California Real Estate (2016-2018, 2021-2023)
Education
- University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 1992
- University of California Berkeley, B.S. (with honors), 1987
Representations
Representative clients include Facebook, salesforce.com, LinkedIn, Stripe, Okta, Palantir, Rockwood Capital, and BioMarin Pharmaceuticals
Recent Headquarters and Leasing Transactions:
- Salesforce.com in the leasing in San Francisco of Salesforce Tower (approximately 881,000 square feet), 445,000 square feet at 350 Mission, 500,000 square feet at 50 Fremont, 230,000 square feet at One Rincon and the project in San Francisco known as Parcel F
- Facebook in the leasing of portions of 3 buildings within Hudson Yards in New York City, which was the largest office lease transaction in Manhattan in 2019
- Facebook in the acquisition of its Menlo Park campus, including subsequent land acquisitions and leases of multiple adjacent sites
- Facebook in the lease of 435,000 square feet at 181 Fremont, San Francisco and 756,000 feet at Park Tower, San Francisco
- LinkedIn in the swap with Google of various land and leases comprising the LinkedIn and Google headquarters in Mountain View and Sunnyvale
- LinkedIn in the lease of 450,000 square feet at 222 Second Street, San Francisco
- Stripe in the lease of 2 buildings within the Oyster Point development in South San Francisco
- Okta in its headquarters lease at 100 First, San Francisco
- LinkedIn in the lease of 456,000 square feet at San Antonio Center in Mountain View and the subsequent assignment of the lease to WeWork
- Salesforce.com in numerous U.S. and international office leases, including Salesforce Tower Chicago, Salesforce Tower New York, Salesforce Tower Indianapolis and Salesforce Tower Atlanta
- Salesforce.com in the 25 year naming rights agreement with Transbay Joint Powers Authority for the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco
Recent Data Center Transactions:
- Facebook with respect to various U.S. and international data center developments, including in Singapore, New Mexico, Nebraska, Oregon, North Carolina, Texas and Alabama
- Salesforce.com with respect to U.S. and international data center locations
- TierPoint in the acquisition of CoSentry, Windstream and other data center companies
news
- Paul Hastings Selected as Counsel to Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of WeWork - November 21st, 2023
- Paul Hastings Advises OpenAI in Lease Agreements with Uber - October 31st, 2023
- Paul Hastings Ranked as Top Three Firm for New Rankings and Recognized for Numerous Practice Strength and Growth in Chambers USA 2021 - May 21st, 2021
- Paul Hastings Named ‘Real Estate Group of the Year’ by Law360 - December 23rd, 2020
- San Francisco Marks Largest Office Lease in City’s History with Facebook Transaction - May 31st, 2018
- Paul Hastings Practices and Lawyers Score Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2018 - May 11th, 2018
- Okta Enters into Lease Agreement for New San Francisco Headquarters - December 6th, 2017
- LinkedIn Enters into Lease Assignment Agreement with WeWork - November 3rd, 2017
- Delta Dental Enters into Oakland Office Lease Agreement with CIM Group - August 4th, 2017
- Paul Hastings Practices and Lawyers Score Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2017 - June 5th, 2017
- LinkedIn Acquires Google Properties - July 12th, 2016
- Paul Hastings Practices and Lawyers Score Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2016 - June 8th, 2016
- Paul Hastings Represents TierPoint in its Acquisition by Management, Investor Group - June 11th, 2014
- Paul Hastings advises LinkedIn on lease of new San Francisco office building - April 30th, 2014
- Paul Hastings Represents Salesforce.com in Lease of San Francisco’s Premier Office Project - April 11th, 2014
- Paul Hastings Advises Four Corners Properties and Rockwood Capital in the Biggest 2013 Lease Deal in Silicon Valley with Google - September 16th, 2013
- Paul Hastings Launches Data Center Practice - June 27th, 2013
- Paul Hastings Advises Cequel Data Centers in Acquisition of Baltimore Technology Park - June 27th, 2013
- Paul Hastings Represents Salesforce.com in European Data Centre Expansion - May 3rd, 2013
- Paul Hastings Advises Salesforce.com in San Francisco Lease at One Rincon - January 3rd, 2013
Recognitions
- Paul Hastings Real Estate Practice Recognized by Chambers USA 2022 - June 1st, 2022
- Paul Hastings' Real Estate Practice Awarded Top Tier Ranking in 2021 Legal 500 U.S. Guide - June 18th, 2021
- Recognized by Chambers USA 2021 - May 21st, 2021
- Recognized as an NLJ Trailblazer in Real Estate Law - April 1st, 2020
- Recognized by Chambers USA 2018 - May 15th, 2018
- Recognized by Chambers USA 2017 - June 5th, 2017
- Recognized by Chambers USA 2016 - June 8th, 2016
insights
- PH COVID-19 Client Alert Series: California Judicial Council Prohibits All Evictions and Judicial Foreclosures - April 10th, 2020
- PH COVID-19 Client Alert Series: Public Health Orders Overview and Preemptive Measures - March 20th, 2020
- How is the tech industry driving real estate and data center developments? - December 9th, 2014
- What trends in the real estate industry will have the biggest impact on data centers over the next 12 months? - May 16th, 2014
- Data Centers: Critical for Users; A New and Fast-Growing Asset Class for Investors - June 26th, 2013
Involvement
- Member of the State Bar of California