Corin M. Korenaga

Corin Korenaga is a leading transactional real estate attorney who delivers battle-tested advice and strategies built on more than two decades of experience navigating complex acquisitions, dispositions, space leasing, ground leasing, mergers and acquisitions, and joint venture deals across multiple real estate product types.

Corin represents real estate owners, developers, and investors, as well as landlords and tenants of office, residential, industrial, retail, and medical office properties. His deep fluency in how deals are structured, negotiated, and ultimately closed — and where they most often break down — allows him to anticipate risk, protect his clients' interests, and drive transactions to successful outcomes.

Homebuilder Representation

Corin has particular expertise representing homebuilders in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, development, and joint ventures. With more than two decades immersed in the homebuilding sector, he has developed an intimate understanding of the business know-how, industry practices, market dynamics, and regulatory issues that apply to homebuilder transactions. He represents both public and private homebuilder buyers and sellers in transactions throughout the US, having overseen more than $2 billion in homebuilder M&A.

What distinguishes Corin's counsel is his ability to grasp and process the full architecture of a deal — understanding not just what each document says, but how the interplay among the deal elements and documents create or mitigate risk for his clients. Clients rely on him to translate that hard-earned insight into forward-thinking and practical advice that keeps deals on track and protects their interests after the closing.

Lease Representation

Corin represents landlords and tenants in office and industrial leasing, property management, operational matters, and disputes, and advises commercial clients in acquisitions, dispositions, and development transactions. He currently counsels clients on more than one million square feet of office and industrial leases annually. His experience across hundreds of lease negotiations gives him the instincts to understand where deals need to settle in order to best serve his clients over the life of a tenancy.

Ground Leasing

Corin represents both landlords and tenants in complex ground lease transactions for industrial, retail, office, residential, and medical office properties nationwide. Ground leases involve complicated relationships among interest holders — fee owners, fee lenders, leasehold mortgagees, subtenants, contractors, insurers, and others — and the issues that arise across a ground lease's long life demand counsel who understands and can appropriately balance those relationships. Corin brings that understanding to every engagement, advising clients not just on deal terms but on how those terms will interact with financing, development, and exit strategies over decades.

Represented Biscayne Homes in its disposition of business assets in Florida to DRB Homes.

Represented Southern Impression Homes (a private build-to-rent residential developer) in its Florida business disposition to Gehan Homes and roll-over of equity into the buyer entity.

Represented Shea Homes in North Carolina in its disposition of business assets in North Carolina to Empire Communities and roll-over of equity into the buyer entity.

Represented Hanover Homes in its disposition of business assets in Florida to Landsea Homes.

Represented American West Homes in its disposition of business assets in Las Vegas, NV to Pulte Homes.

Represented a private residential developer with its disposition of business assets in Texas.

Represented a major public residential developer with its acquisition of assets from private residential developers in Texas, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Represented a regional landlord in connection with office, retail and industrial projects in Northern and Southern California.

Represented the buyer of the Playboy Mansion in what was, at the time, the largest residential sales transaction in Los Angeles County history.

Represented a state pension fund in $500+ million recapitalization and merger deal with a national multifamily developer.

Represented a foreign investor in acquiring the REIT interests of an entity owning an office project located in Mountain View, CA, with a global tech company as the sole tenant.

Represented a major private residential developer in connection with the development and disposition of a 900+ unit mixed-use development in Napa, CA.

Honors & Recognitions

Lawdragon, Top 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers, 2025

Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2014-2019

Professional Affiliations

State Bar of California

State Bar of Illinois

State Bar of Hawaii

Stanford Professionals In Real Estate

BOMA - Greater Los Angeles, Member