Profile
Brady McShane provides legal advice to clients on political, regulatory, and environmental issues involved in developing property in California and Colorado. His practice focuses on securing land use approvals, regulatory permits, and environmental clearance from government agencies, directing public policy and government relations strategies and counseling clients on land use issues pertaining to the acquisition, disposition, and financing of properties.
Brady’s broad range of land use experience includes work on single and multifamily residential communities, hotels, hospitals, regional shopping centers, big box and specialty retail stores, industrial warehouse and logistics centers, mining projects, restaurants, performing arts theaters, sports stadiums, and self-storage facilities. He also advises institutional lenders on land use and entitlement issues associated with distressed assets.
Brady has deep experience with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the Subdivision Map Act, the Coastal Act, the Mello Act, and other local, state, and federal land use regulations. He regularly represents clients in public hearings before agencies, boards, commissions, and legislative bodies and defends development projects in court against CEQA and other land use-related claims.
Concentrations
- Affordable and workforce housing
- California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
- Condominium and mixed-use developments
- Economic development and incentives
- Environmental and natural resources policy and regulation
- Hospitals and healthcare
- Hotels and hospitality
- Industrial leasing and development
- Infill and transit-oriented developments
- Land use and development
- Land use litigation
- Local government advocacy
- Master-planned communities and subdivisions
- Residential and multifamily development
- Retail leasing and development
- Sustainable development
Capabilities
Experience
- Obtained discretionary entitlements and approval under the California Environmental Quality Act from the City of Los Angeles for the development of an industrial office park in Los Angeles.
- Obtained certification of an EIR and discretionary land use entitlements for a 1.8 million square foot warehouse distribution and logistics center in the County of Riverside.
- Obtained certification of an EIR and discretionary land use entitlements for the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in the City of Beverly Hills. The project consisted of the adaptive reuse of a 38,000-square foot historic federal post office building and development of a new state-of-the-art, 28,000-square foot, 500-seat live performance theatre, 150-seat studio theater/rehearsal hall, theatre school, sculpture garden, café, gift shop, and three-level subterranean public parking garage.°
- Obtained discretionary entitlements for the major renovation and expansion of the Hermes luxury retail flagship store located on Rodeo Drive in the City of Beverly Hills.°
- Obtained certification of an EIR and discretionary land use entitlements on behalf of Casden Properties to develop 340 single-family residential units in the City of Oxnard. The discretionary project approvals consisted of a development agreement, general plan and specific plan amendments, zone changes, special use permits and tentative tract maps.°
- Obtained certification of an EIR and discretionary land use entitlements, including a general plan amendment, specific plan, zoning code amendment and vesting parcel map for the development of an approximately 250,000-square-foot, regional commercial shopping center and 50 residential units in the City of Atascadero.°
- Obtained certification of an EIR and discretionary land use entitlements, including a zoning code amendment, conditional use permit and precise plan approval for the major remodel and expansion of an approximately 150,000-square-foot, big box retail store in the City of Cerritos.°
- Obtained CEQA clearance and discretionary land use entitlements for the expansion and major remodel of an approximately 100,000-square-foot retail membership club store in the City of Gardena.°
- Obtained certification of an EIR and discretionary land use entitlements to expand a regional hospital in the City of Corona, including the addition of 200,000 square feet of medical uses and a 120,000 square foot medical office building, for a total area of almost 500,000 square feet when combined with the existing hospital.°
- Obtained discretionary entitlements and approval under the California Environmental Quality Act for a major expansion of a regional hospital in the City of Murrieta.
- Obtained discretionary entitlements and approval under the California Environmental Quality Act for a major expansion of a regional hospital in the City of Wildomar including extending the trauma center as well as addition of a new seven-story 290,000 square foot tower with 202 patient beds.
- Obtained certification of an EIR and discretionary land use entitlements on behalf of Universal Health Services for construction and operation of helipad in the City of Temecula.°
- Obtained discretionary land use entitlements for the construction and operation of Raising Cane’s fast food restaurant located in the City of Laguna Hills.°
- Obtained discretionary land use entitlements for construction and operation of Vodka micro-distillery for Pernod Ricard in the City of Los Angeles.°
- Obtained discretionary conditional use permit on behalf of Health Net, Inc. for the operation of a behavioral health services medical facility located in the City of San Marcos.°
- Obtained local agency approval on behalf of Health Net, Inc. for the operation of a behavioral health services medical facility located in the City of Pleasanton.°
- Successfully defended development projects in Los Angeles and other cities throughout California against CEQA and other land-use related litigation.°
- Advised on advocacy strategies, lobbying of elected and appointed officials and orchestrating coalitions of businesses, not-for-profit entities, community-based organizations and other grassroots groups to support lobbying initiatives of international retail chain.°
- Advised multi-national banking firm on land use entitlement, CEQA, litigation, and other development matters in connection with the City of Sacramento approval of the Sacramento Kings Arena and 1.5 million square feet of additional office, retail, hotel, and residential units.°
- Advised GMAC ResCap in connection with the evaluation and disposition of numerous distressed master-planned residential developments located throughout California, including with respect to existing project entitlements, remaining on- and off-site development obligations and applicable environmental mitigation measures, pending litigation and operating expenses such as development fees, impact fees and property taxes and municipal bond assessments.°
- Advised on land use and environmental issues in connection with the acquisition, development, and ultimate operation of large solar energy projects located throughout California.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. McShane prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Land Use and Zoning Law, 2024-2025
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2023
- Team Member, a Law360 “Environmental Practice Group of the Year,” 2022
- Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2018 and 2022
- Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Real Estate - Land Use/Zoning, 2018 and 2024
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Southern California “Rising Star,” 2008, 2010-2014
- Recipient, St. Joseph Center “Everybody Shines” Community Service Award
- Member, Central Association of Los Angeles
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Board of Directors, Special Olympics of Southern California
Credentials
- J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2001
- B.S., Communication, Arizona State University, 1997
- Colorado
- California