Ryan Iwasaka’s practice includes a broad range of real estate transactions. He has worked on the acquisition or sale of a variety of properties, including raw land, industrial facilities, office buildings, regional malls and retail complexes, and multi-family apartment and condominium developments.

Mr. Iwasaka has experience in retail, industrial and office leasing, including the long-term ground leasing of land for development. He has completed numerous conventional and syndicated financing transactions on behalf of both borrowers and lenders.

Mr. Iwasaka also advises real estate developers, including private individuals, public and privately held corporations, investment funds, and real estate investment trusts.

• Represents Costco Wholesale Corporation in the acquisition and development of retail and distribution facilities in the Western United States
• Represents the owners of the Oakland Athletics baseball franchise in the acquisition and development of over 140 acres of land for a new baseball stadium to be located in Fremont, California
• Represents a developer of luxury homes in Rancho Mirage, California, in the acquisition and financing of approximately 400 acres of land
• Represented a Southern California based fitness company in the refinancing of over $80 million of loans
• Represented one of the largest golf course owners and operators in the United States, in real estate transactions across the county, including matters in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia
• Represented the owner of a business complex in San Jose, California, in the refinancing and modification of a $30 million loan and the subsequent sale of the property for approximately $70 million
• Represented a major internet company in the lease of two floors of Class A office space in Westwood, Los Angeles, with an option to lease two adjacent floors of space
• Represented the owner of MacDonald Highlands in Henderson, Nevada, in the development and sale of luxury residential communities, including a series of transactions with an aggregate sale price in excess of $70 million
• Represented the owner of a retail shopping complex in Redondo Beach, California, in the sale of its corporate interest to a partner, which involved seller financing secured by multiple real estate assets including both fee and leasehold interests
• Represented a sports entertainment company in the lease of Class A office space in Times Square, New York

• Author, Note, From Chakrabarty to Chimeras: The Growing Need for Evolutionary Biology Theory in Patent Law, 109 Yale L.J. 1505, 2000
• Author, Book Note, The Resurrection of Publius, 107 Yale L.J. 2327, 1997 

• Member, Board of Governors, Claremont McKenna College Keck Institute of Strategic International Studies, 2006-present
• Member, Claremont McKenna College Alumni Association Giving Committee, 2002-2004
• Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Pasadena, California, 2000-01

• Listed, Southern California Rising Stars, 2007-2009
• Rhodes Scholarship, 1994