Overview

Peter Weil is the managing partner of Glaser Weil. Peter is widely recognized for driving large-scale and innovative real estate and corporate transactions and for his leadership in the firm and community. Peter’s extensive experience encompasses envelope-pushing matters ranging from the acquisition and disposition of businesses to real estate development, construction, leasing, financing and restructuring. His list of clients has included Fortune 500 companies, significant real estate investors and developers, major studios and successful entrepreneurs. Peter served as lead outside counsel for MGM Mirage in connection with all legal aspects of the largest privately funded construction project in U.S. history, CityCenter, a $9 billion, 20 million-square-foot mixed-use project in Las Vegas.

Consistently receiving top professional rankings, Peter has been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Leading Attorneys in California” by the Daily Journal and as both a “Leaders in Law” finalist and one of the “Top 50 Leading Lawyers in Los Angeles” by the Los Angeles Business Journal. The Century City Bar Association has recognized him as its “Real Estate Lawyer of the Year” and he regularly appears on the list of Best Lawyers in America.

For many years, Peter has held leadership positions in prominent civic organizations, including president of the City of Los Angeles Planning Commission, chairman of the City of Los Angeles Board of Zoning Appeals and a member of the City of Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners. In the professional realm, he is a past president of the Century City Bar Association and a former trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. In addition, Peter has lectured widely on a variety of real estate topics.

Peter is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Skirball Cultural Center and Board of Counselors of the USC Rossier School of Education. He previously served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Skirball Center and president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hillel. Peter also served as president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Jewish Committee, president of the Western Region of the American Friends of The Hebrew University and as a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the University of Wisconsin Foundation. He has received the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles Legal Division’s Bruce I. Hochman Maimonides Torch of Justice Award.

Results

Peter’s notable experience includes his representation of:

Real Estate Purchases and Sales
  • Prominent real estate companies, including GPI, Blatteis & Schnur, Inc., Arden Realty, Inc., Hudson Pacific Properties and Douglas Emmett, Inc., in the acquisitions and dispositions of numerous office buildings and shopping centers.
  • Purchasers and sellers, including Hudson Pacific Properties, The Pick-Vanoff Company, Raleigh Studios, American Broadcasting Company and Columbia Pictures, in the sales of large production studios in Los Angeles.
Real Estate Leasing
  • MGM Studios, the anchor tenant, in its lease of 400,000 square feet in a prestigious Los Angeles high-rise office tower (the largest-dollar lease in L.A. County history).
  • Majestic Realty, a leading commercial real estate developer, in a number of large industrial leases.
Real Estate Development
  • MGM Mirage in leading the Glaser Weil team that handled all legal aspects (entitlements, constructions contracts, architectural contracts, financings, insurance, LEED compliance, hotel management contracts) of a $9 billion, 20 million-square-foot mixed-use project in Las Vegas – the largest privately funded construction project in U.S. history.
  • GPI, a prominent full-service real estate company, in several major development projects, including a 1.3 million-square-foot mixed-use project in North Hollywood.
Corporate
  • Various real estate clients and investment partners in forming several large real estate joint ventures involving hotels and office buildings.
  • Various real estate and corporate clients in restructuring billions of dollars of loans during the Great Recession.

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Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

“Top 100 Leading Attorneys in California,” Daily Journal, multiple years

“Top 50 Leading Lawyers in Los Angeles,” Los Angeles Business Journal, multiple years

“Leaders in Law” Real Estate Finalist, Los Angeles Business Journal

Bruce I. Hochman Maimonides Torch of Justice Award, The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles Legal Division

Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Wisconsin Alumni Association

“Real Estate Lawyer of the Year,” Century City Bar Association

The Best Lawyers in America®, multiple years

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Leadership and Community

Member and past board chair, Board of Trustees, Skirball Cultural Center

Member, Board of Counselors, USC Rossier School of Education

Past president, City of Los Angeles Planning Commission

Past chair, City of Los Angeles Board of Zoning Appeals

Former member, City of Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners

Past president, Century City Bar Association

Former trustee, Los Angeles County Bar Association

Past president, Los Angeles Chapter of the American Jewish Committee

Past member, Los Angeles Chapter of the American Jewish Committee National Board of Governors

Past president, Western Region of the American Friends of The Hebrew University

Former member, Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, University of Wisconsin Foundation

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison, J.D., cum laude

University of California, Berkeley, M.A., History

University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A., History, with honors

Admissions

  • California

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