Overview
Richard Kaiser is a partner in Glaser Weil’s Real Estate Department. Rick represents large development companies, private real estate investment trusts (REITs) and retail companies in a broad range of real estate transactions. He concentrates his practice on real estate matters related to commercial developments, including neighborhood centers, lifestyle centers, regional malls, urban locations, mixed-use developments, high-street retail locations, office buildings and industrial projects.
Rick has extensive experience negotiating and drafting leases (including ground leases, build-to-suit leases, reverse build-to-suit leases, specialty leases and in-line space leases), purchase and sale agreements, site development agreements, CC&Rs, REAs, OEAs and easements. He provides practical advice that protects his clients’ interests while getting deals done.
Rick assists clients with the drafting and negotiating of:
- Leases with regional and national tenants
- Ground leases
- Build-to-suit leases
- Reverse build-to-suit leases
- Specialty leases
- In-line space leases
- Contracts related to repositioning aging retail centers into state-of-the-art mixed-use developments with retail, residential, office and entertainment components
- Purchase and sale agreements, note purchase agreements and deed-in-lieu transactions
- CC&Rs, REAs, COREAs and other related documents
Rick also co-authored a comprehensive two-volume manual on negotiating retail leases, entitled “Retail Leasing, Drafting and Negotiating the Lease,” that was published by Continuing Education of the Bar-California.
Industries
Education
Indiana University Maurer School of Law (Bloomington, Ind.), J.D.
Indiana University Kelley School of Business (Bloomington, Ind.), M.B.A.
University of Michigan, B.A., Economics, with distinction
Admissions
- California