Virginia Pedreira is the managing partner of the Seattle office and a member in the firm's Real Estate practice group. She has extensive experience with real estate sales and acquisitions, leasing, lending and financing in Washington and California. In addition to commercial real estate lenders, developers and investors, her client base includes a large number of companies in the agricultural lending and investment industry for which she has handled various acquisitions, financings and other matters. Virginia also advises energy companies and other clients in the acquisition and leasing of industrial real estate and the development of renewable energy projects.

Virginia practiced law in California for 12 years before relocating to the Seattle office and continues to represent a number of clients with respect to transactions in the state.

Representative Work

Commercial Real Estate Transactions

Represented a national retail company in the acquisition, sale/leaseback and financing of a 788,000 square foot regional distribution center in Eastern Washington.

Represented an institutional investor in connection with a $100,000,000 loan made by a national life insurance company and secured by a portfolio of ten commercial properties situated in California.

Represented Agbar Technologies, Inc. in its acquisition of all existing vehicle emission testing sites and related assets in the state of Washington and its implementation of the new vehicle emission testing program in the state.

Represented a national bank in connection with a $19,500,000 construction loan made to the developer of an anchored shopping center located in Roseville, California.

Represented a real estate investment company in connection with the financing of the real estate assets of a regional grocery chain located in Idaho, Montana and Washington.

Ongoing representation of several national life insurance companies on a regional basis in connection with secured permanent financing of commercial properties (industrial, office and multifamily) across the Western U.S. with loan amounts ranging from $2,000,000 to over $100,000,000.

Represented an institutional lender in connection with the $50,000,000 permanent financing of an air-space condominium comprising the hotel user within a large mixed use project located in Bellevue, Washington.

Represented private investor in connection with the acquisition, development, financing and sale of a 400-unit apartment project in Auburn, Washington.

Represented a private utility in the disposition of hydropower assets in Eastern Washington.

Represented wind project developer in the acquisition of several thousand acres of land in Eastern Washington in connection with a proposed wind power project.

Agricultural and Timber Transactions

Represented a U.S. life insurance company in the restructuring, foreclosure, acquisition and sale of several orchards and agricultural properties located in Eastern Washington.

Represented a U.S. life insurance company in connection with a $30,000,000 loan secured by a potato processing facility and 20,938 acres of related farmland in Nevada.

Represented a national banking association in connection with the financing of a cattle feeding operation in Southern California.

Represented a national banking association in connection with the origination and restructuring of a loan secured by packing facilities and surrounding orchard properties in Eastern Washington.

Represented the timber investment division of a U.S. life insurance company in the senior debt financing in the amount of $150,000,000 secured by 600,000 acres of timberlands in Oregon and Washington.

Represented an institutional lender in connection with a $25,000,000 loan secured by 14,000 acres of agricultural property (both row crops and permanent plantings) and related water rights in California's Central Valley.

Represented an institutional lender in connection with the permanent financing of a $30,000,000 loan secured by a 94,400-acre cattle ranch on the Island of Hawaii.

Represented a U.S. life insurance company in connection with a $25,000,000 loan secured by vegetable processing and mushroom production facilities located in California, Oregon, Utah and Tennessee.

Ongoing representation of the agricultural investments division of a U.S. life insurance company in connection with agricultural finance transactions with respect to properties (ranging from cotton and potato farming operations to vineyard properties) located in California and Washington with loan sizes ranging from $2,000,000 to $100,000,000.

Professional Honors & Activities

Named one of Washington's "Rising Stars" by Washington Law & Politics

Included in Chambers' America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2007-2008

Past member, Executive Committee, Real Property, Probate and Trust Section, Washington State Bar Association

Past member, Editorial Board, Real Property, Probate and Trust Section, Washington State Bar Association, 2001-2003

Chair, Real Property Roundtable Steering Committee, Fresno County Bar Association, 1998-2000

Member, State Bar of California

Member, Washington State Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Member, California Ag Lenders Society

Member, American Agricultural Law Association

Member, Pacific Real Estate Institute

Member, Urban Land Institute

Member, Commercial Real Estate Women

Fellow, American College of Mortgage Attorneys

Education

University of Southern California, J.D., 1988

Staff member, Computer Law Journal

Indiana University at Bloomington, B.A., 1983, with distinction

Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

Washington

California

District of Columbia