Richard C.Mendelson
Partner
Real Estate
rmendelson@seyfarth.com
Rich is a deal lawyer who prides himself on fostering long-standing client partnerships while adding value in complex commercial real estate transactions.
More About Rich
Rich has particular knowledge in the areas of acquisitions, joint ventures, and financing transactions, as well as in workouts and restructurings. He has extensive experience in representing both domestic and international insurance companies and banks, public pension funds (and their advisors), private equity funds, and significant family-owned real estate companies in all matters relating to commercial property.
Rich has a keen perspective of both sides of a deal and provides clients with sophisticated deal structuring advice that is grounded by his constant presence in the marketplace on behalf of his clients. His practice operates across Seyfarth’s national platform which gives Rich a true pulse on deal trends throughout the country. He is quick to identify key issues and manages unexpected deal challenges with practical and focused advice.
Chambers & Partners ranks Rich highly in their Chambers USA guide, having referenced him as "a precise and skilled technician with a sterling track record," and citing a market source describing him as a "really superb and responsive lawyer." Rich is also listed in The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2013, 2016, 2018-2021) and in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) (2006, 2015-2022) for real estate law. He has been named a "Southern California Super Lawyer" by Super Lawyers magazine (Thomson Reuters) (2005-2020), as the result of a research project conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Los Angeles magazines.
Rich has a keen perspective of both sides of a deal and provides clients with sophisticated deal structuring advice that is grounded by his constant presence in the marketplace on behalf of his clients. His practice operates across Seyfarth’s national platform which gives Rich a true pulse on deal trends throughout the country. He is quick to identify key issues and manages unexpected deal challenges with practical and focused advice.
Chambers & Partners ranks Rich highly in their Chambers USA guide, having referenced him as "a precise and skilled technician with a sterling track record," and citing a market source describing him as a "really superb and responsive lawyer." Rich is also listed in The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2013, 2016, 2018-2021) and in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) (2006, 2015-2022) for real estate law. He has been named a "Southern California Super Lawyer" by Super Lawyers magazine (Thomson Reuters) (2005-2020), as the result of a research project conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Los Angeles magazines.
- JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Cum laude
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, associate editor - AB, Rutgers University
- California
- New Jersey
- New York
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- Representing a major real estate fund company in its acquisition of a million-square-foot office and retail complex in Irvine, California, and the related assumption and restructuring of a securitized loan that was in special servicing.
- Representing a major American life insurance company and a leading Canada-based financial services group in connection with the US$270 million purchase of an office complex in downtown San Francisco.
- Representing a Fortune 100 life insurance company in a US $90 million financing of industrial portfolios that included 19 properties in eight states.
- Representing the regents of a university as trustees of the institution's retirement plan in real estate transactions dating from 2007, including financings, acquisitions and joint ventures.
- Serving as outside counsel for a county's employees retirement association since 1996. Transactions for the association include acquisitions, dispositions, financings and joint ventures.
Related News & Insights
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Firm News
Jun 4, 2026
Seyfarth Earns Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2026
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Recognition
10/19/2025
Stacy Paek and Richard Mendelson Named Los Angeles Times 2025 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries
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Recognition
08/21/2025
231 Seyfarth Lawyers Selected as Leaders in Their Fields by Best Lawyers in America 2026; 8 Seyfarth Attorneys Honored as “Lawyer of the Year” in Their Practices
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Recognition
06/05/2025
Seyfarth Receives Strong Recognition Again in Chambers USA 2025
- Selected to Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2006, 2015-2026)
- Named as a 2025 Commercial Real Estate Visionary by Los Angeles Times (2025)
- Recognized as a Notable Practitioner, Band 2 in Real Estate (California: Southern) by Chambers USA (2012-2025)
- Selected to Connect CRE for Lawyers in Real Estate (2023)
- Recognized in the Top 10 Real Estate Lawyers in Southern California 2023 by Business Today
- Recognized Attorney for Real Estate (Nationwide) (2013, 2016, 2018-2021) and Cannabis (2021) by The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.)
- Recognized as "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2021)
- Listed in Southern California Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) for Real Estate: Business (2005-2020)
No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
- Pension Real Estate Association
- Urban Land Institute
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
Rich is a deal lawyer who prides himself on fostering long-standing client partnerships while adding value in complex commercial real estate transactions.
More About Rich
Rich has particular knowledge in the areas of acquisitions, joint ventures, and financing transactions, as well as in workouts and restructurings. He has extensive experience in representing both domestic and international insurance companies and banks, public pension funds (and their advisors), private equity funds, and significant family-owned real estate companies in all matters relating to commercial property.
Rich has a keen perspective of both sides of a deal and provides clients with sophisticated deal structuring advice that is grounded by his constant presence in the marketplace on behalf of his clients. His practice operates across Seyfarth’s national platform which gives Rich a true pulse on deal trends throughout the country. He is quick to identify key issues and manages unexpected deal challenges with practical and focused advice.
Chambers & Partners ranks Rich highly in their Chambers USA guide, having referenced him as "a precise and skilled technician with a sterling track record," and citing a market source describing him as a "really superb and responsive lawyer." Rich is also listed in The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2013, 2016, 2018-2021) and in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) (2006, 2015-2022) for real estate law. He has been named a "Southern California Super Lawyer" by Super Lawyers magazine (Thomson Reuters) (2005-2020), as the result of a research project conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Los Angeles magazines.
Rich has a keen perspective of both sides of a deal and provides clients with sophisticated deal structuring advice that is grounded by his constant presence in the marketplace on behalf of his clients. His practice operates across Seyfarth’s national platform which gives Rich a true pulse on deal trends throughout the country. He is quick to identify key issues and manages unexpected deal challenges with practical and focused advice.
Chambers & Partners ranks Rich highly in their Chambers USA guide, having referenced him as "a precise and skilled technician with a sterling track record," and citing a market source describing him as a "really superb and responsive lawyer." Rich is also listed in The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2013, 2016, 2018-2021) and in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) (2006, 2015-2022) for real estate law. He has been named a "Southern California Super Lawyer" by Super Lawyers magazine (Thomson Reuters) (2005-2020), as the result of a research project conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Los Angeles magazines.
- JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Cum laude
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, associate editor - AB, Rutgers University
- California
- New Jersey
- New York
Related Services
Related Key Industries
- Representing a major real estate fund company in its acquisition of a million-square-foot office and retail complex in Irvine, California, and the related assumption and restructuring of a securitized loan that was in special servicing.
- Representing a major American life insurance company and a leading Canada-based financial services group in connection with the US$270 million purchase of an office complex in downtown San Francisco.
- Representing a Fortune 100 life insurance company in a US $90 million financing of industrial portfolios that included 19 properties in eight states.
- Representing the regents of a university as trustees of the institution's retirement plan in real estate transactions dating from 2007, including financings, acquisitions and joint ventures.
- Serving as outside counsel for a county's employees retirement association since 1996. Transactions for the association include acquisitions, dispositions, financings and joint ventures.
Related News & Insights
-
Firm News
Jun 4, 2026
Seyfarth Earns Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2026
-
Recognition
10/19/2025
Stacy Paek and Richard Mendelson Named Los Angeles Times 2025 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries
-
Recognition
08/21/2025
231 Seyfarth Lawyers Selected as Leaders in Their Fields by Best Lawyers in America 2026; 8 Seyfarth Attorneys Honored as “Lawyer of the Year” in Their Practices
-
Recognition
06/05/2025
Seyfarth Receives Strong Recognition Again in Chambers USA 2025
- Selected to Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2006, 2015-2026)
- Named as a 2025 Commercial Real Estate Visionary by Los Angeles Times (2025)
- Recognized as a Notable Practitioner, Band 2 in Real Estate (California: Southern) by Chambers USA (2012-2025)
- Selected to Connect CRE for Lawyers in Real Estate (2023)
- Recognized in the Top 10 Real Estate Lawyers in Southern California 2023 by Business Today
- Recognized Attorney for Real Estate (Nationwide) (2013, 2016, 2018-2021) and Cannabis (2021) by The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.)
- Recognized as "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2021)
- Listed in Southern California Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) for Real Estate: Business (2005-2020)
No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
- Pension Real Estate Association
- Urban Land Institute
- Los Angeles County Bar Association