Roy S. Geiger

Roy Geiger’s practice focuses on real estate and real estate finance. Mr. Geiger is a former partner of Irell & Manella LLP, where he was a member of the real estate and banking practice groups for over 25 years. He has been involved with major financings and workouts, representing both borrowers and lenders, and has worked on numerous acquisitions and leases, representing purchasers and sellers and landlords and tenants. He has spearheaded financings throughout the country for banks and life companies involving office buildings, apartment complexes, golf courses, hotels, casinos and mixed-use projects, and has worked on international commercial transactions and leveraged buyouts. He has worked closely with bankruptcy attorneys on workouts, restructurings, dissolutions, and foreclosures. Mr. Geiger has also participated in the drafting of legislation, including California Civil Code Section 2938, which rewrote California law on assignment of rents.

Mr. Geiger has written and spoken extensively on topics relating to real property and finance. Among Mr. Geiger’s publications are “Lenders and Leases” (co- author), “Dover Mobile Estates v. Fiber Form Products Inc.: The Subordinate Tenant Walks and the Court .Enforces an Automatic Subordination Provision in a Lease,” “AB1735: The Remediation of Hazardous Lending; and Bank of Southern California v. Dombrow: Depublished but not Dead” (co-author), all of which were published in the California Real Property Journal, and “Fool with a Pen” (co- author) in Los Angeles Law, and “A Brief History of Rents: The Evolution of Assignments of Rents and Related Enforcement Procedures in California” in Miller & Starr Real Estate Newsalert (co-author). He is also co-author of the chapter on real estate legal opinions in the CEB publication Real Estate Finance Practice and the author of the chapter on fraudulent conveyances in Bankruptcy Litigation (Thompson West, Howard Steinberg, editor).

Mr. Geiger has served as associate editor of the California Real Property Journal and as co-chair of the Real Property Section of the State Bar of California. He was the co-chair of the Joint Committee on Legal Opinions in California Real Estate Transactions, a joint project of the State Bar Real Property Law Section and the Los Angeles County Bar.

Mr. Geiger has been selected for inclusion in Southern California “Super Lawyers” and the Best Lawyers in America since 2006. He is proficient in Spanish (Mr. Geiger was on a program panel on Mexican real estate law) and is involved with the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA, where he has participated with the Director of the Center in an undergraduate course on law and religion.

Professional Activities

Member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers Bar & Court Admissions 1979, California

Practice Areas

Real Estate

Bankruptcy, Reorganization & Creditors’ Rights

Education

University of California, Berkeley (J.D., 1979)

University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1972); Phi Beta Kappa

Santa Monica Office
310-656-8000
rgeiger@gormanmiller.com