Profile
Stanton E. Johnson handles a broad range of complex commercial real estate transactions for national and local clients involving the acquisition, financing, development, and leasing of real estate projects and the negotiation of joint ventures. Stan represents developers, private equity groups, lenders, and tenants in industrial, office, retail, multi-family (apartment, condominium, and student housing), single-family residential (for-sale, SFR, and BTR), medical, tech, and hospitality properties. Stan’s practice also includes the development and strategic re-positioning of mixed-use projects, and the development of master-planned communities and other projects on state auction land and on long-term ground leases from government and private owners.
תחומי התמחות
ניסיון מקצועי
- Represented institutional investors in the purchase and sale of office, industrial, multi-family, retail, and mixed-use projects.°
- Represented national and local homebuilders in property acquisition and financing matters.°
- Represented a regional commercial developer in its portfolio disposition.°
- Represented a national assisted-living facilities operator in the acquisition of multiple facilities.°
- Represented banks and other lenders in the acquisition (through foreclosure and deeds in lieu), repositioning, and subsequent sale of distressed commercial properties.°
- Represented court-appointed receivers in the management, repositioning and sale of hotels, retail centers, and industrial properties.°
- Represented a national developer in its development of a 20,000+ acre master planned community, including land acquisition, management, and commercial and homebuilder sales.°
- Drafted and advised on commercial covenants, conditions and restrictions, common operation and reciprocal easement agreements, and other easement and property owner association documents in industrial, retail, office, and mixed-use projects.°
- Represented a semiconductor technologies company in the partial sale and redevelopment of its industrial campus.°
- Represented a developer in a joint venture for redevelopment of prime urban property as a mixed-use project.°
- Represented a regional developer in the development of mixed-use properties with office, restaurant, hotel, and retail components.°
- Represented institutional landlords and tenants in office and retail leases.°
- Represented a franchisee restaurant owner in a series of retail center leases.°
- Represented doctor practice groups in medical office leases.°
- Represented lenders (national and regional banks) and borrowers (investors and homebuilders) in commercial real estate financing for acquisitions and construction.°
- Represented a privately held investment firms in land banking transactions covering more than 1,500 residential lots, involving equity and debt financing.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Johnson prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
הישגים ותפקידי מפתח
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law, 2016 and 2020-2026
- Listed, Super Lawyers Magazine, Southwest Super Lawyers, 2021-2025
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2023
- Past Board Member, Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona, 2013-2017
- Member, State Bar of Arizona
- Member, Real Estate Property Section
- Member, Maricopa County Bar Association
- Member, Real Property Section
- Member, Urban Land Institute
- Member, Wills for Heroes Foundation, 2007-2010
הכשרה מקצועית וכישורי שפה
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J.D., University of Utah College of Law
- Order of the Coif
- Member, Utah Law Review
- B.S., Brigham Young University
- Arizona