Professional Experience

Ms. Tecimer’s practice is primarily focused on acquisitions, dispositions, restructuring and lease transactions.  She has advised a wide variety of clients such as pension funds, industrial and multi-family apartment developers, office building owners, an NBA team, national hospital corporations, an oil refinery and those in the apparel and entertainment industries.

Ms. Tecimer also has represented institutional lenders in real estate fee and leasehold financings, refinancings and workouts involving manufacturing facilities, office buildings and hotels located locally as well as in multiple states, where both real and personal property collateral has been pledged.  Ms. Tecimer’s acquisition and sale experience has included contaminated manufacturing facilities, industrial warehouses, hotels, regional shopping centers with complex reciprocal parking and easement agreements and office buildings.  She has documented all types of lending arrangements involving simple construction and permanent loan financings to restructurings and work-outs, deeds in lieu, forbearance and modification agreements, intercreditor and  tri-party  agreements as well as completion guarantees. 

In addition to representing landlords and tenants in lease transactions involving office buildings, big-box stores, shopping centers and national retail chain store leases, she has significant experience in negotiating reciprocal easement agreements, tenant improvement work letters and assignments and subleases.

In 1988, Ms. Tecimer took a leave of absence from law to establish a start-up women’s apparel manufacturing company, which she continued to successfully own and manage until its sale in 1992. Ms. Tecimer has served as an Instructor at the University of Southern California School of Paralegal Studies, teaching Real Estate Law.

Education

Loyola Law School, J.D., 1981.
Associate Editor, Loyola University Law Review, 1980-1981.

Loyola University Law Review, 1979-1981.

University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., Near Eastern Studies, cum laude, 1977.

Representative Matters

• Represents various multifamily housing developers in assembly acquisitions of multiple SFR inner-city parcels involving title, leasing and rent control evaluation as well as other acquisitions of existing projects (average size of 300-400 units) for turnaround, involving bond financing, multitiered partnerships and pension fund investors.
• Represents a national hospital corporation in connection with multiple purchases and sales of hospital campuses located in California, each in excess of $60 million, requiring the evaluation, and in some cases renegotiation, of reciprocal parking agreements and ground leases, as well as medical office building leases, option agreements, and use licenses.

• Represents multiple owners in the purchase and sale of office buildings and shopping centers in mixed use retail sites as well as a major pension fund in the sale of a 340,000-sq.-ft. West Los Angeles office building with more than 50 tenants to another major pension fund for a purchase price in excess of $70 million.

• Represents architects, general contractors and owners in connection with the negotiation of AIA agreements for both commercial and residential projects.

• Represents industrial real estate developer in multiple acquisitions and dispositions of multiple one- and two- story manufacturing facilities, located on mid size, inner city parcels, including lease and loan negotiations.

• Represents various major apparel distributors in the leasing of more than 10 warehouse facilities averaging 200,000 sq. ft. each, involving letters of credit, extensive tenant improvement work letters, subleases and parking/access agreements.

Memberships & Activities

Member, American Bar Association and Los Angeles County Bar Association, Real Property Section.

Chair, Board of Trustees, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Southern California & Nevada Chapter (NMSS), 2012 to 2013; Member, Board of Trustees, 1995 to present; Executive Committee Member, 2001 to 2003; Chair, Golden Circle Campaign Committee, 2001 to 2003; Member, Board of Trustees, Marilyn Hilton MS Achievement Center at UCLA, 2003 to 2010; Member, Governance Committee, 2009 to present.

Publications

"Cramer v. Tyars: An Anomaly in California Civil Commitment Case Law," Loyola University Law Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, December 1980.

Languages

Spanish, French and Persian.