Maura O'Connor
O'Connor Cochran LLP
Maura O’Connor is the managing partner of O’Connor Cochran LLP, a real estate boutique firm based in Los Angeles, California. She is the former Chairman (and first woman chair) of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation. Ms. O'Connor writes the national real estate industry law blog, Practical Counsel, for www.GlobeSt.com, the premier national commercial real estate web portal. Maura was named one of the top 10 real estate lawyers in Southern California by Real Estate Southern California.
Maura has extensive experience in complex real estate and financing transactions, workouts and foreclosures, dating back to the late 1980s, as well as in real estate acquisitions and leasing. Prior to founding O’Connor Cochran LLP, Maura built and chaired the California real estate departments for two major national law firms. Maura has successfully restructured many bad loans, foreclosed on many different types of real estate, and originated myriad senior and mezzanine loans, lease financings, securitized transactions, ground leases and equity investments for a wide variety of banks, servicers, investors and others. She has also handled many purchases and sales of environmentally contaminated properties. She has served as lead counsel for myriad senior and mezzanine loans, lease financings, securitized transactions, ground leases and equity investments for a wide variety of investors, banks, insurance companies and others. Ms. O’Connor has also successfully handled the acquisition, entitlement, and development of major industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, warehouse and distribution facilities, including an industrial land transfer and boundary change between the two principal shipping port authorities in Los Angeles County.
Maura O’Connor has designed and implemented large-scale systematized and scalable programs to deliver cost-effective legal services in real estate matters, frequently on a fixed fee basis. She created and implemented several large-scale acquisitions programs for retailers, including one multinational retailer that resulted in the successful acquisition of more than 150 sites totaling in value over $1.2 Billion over 18 months. Recently, she designed and implemented business processes to enforce commercial real estate loans on a systematized and cost-effective basis, drawing on her extensive experience in resolving troubled assets for lenders and special servicers.
