Louis K. Raymond is Of Counsel at Stuart Kane LLP, and practices in the Real Estate Group.
Experience
Mr. Raymond has broad transactional experience in commercial real estate, with a specialty in retail and office leasing. Before joining Stuart Kane, Mr. Raymond served 19 years as general counsel for The Irvine Company retail division, where he was primarily responsible for the division’s leasing, development, operations, litigation, environmental and compliance legal work. In his last three years at The Irvine Company, Mr. Raymond also led the Irvine Company office division legal team on leasing, operations, and litigation work.
Mr. Raymond’s retail lease negotiating experience is extensive, including department store, grocery, and other anchor store leases; large and small format restaurant leases; national retail chain store leases; as well as retail leases with “mom and pop” tenants. Mr. Raymond also has considerable experience reviewing the contractual rights of commercial parties under declarations of covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs), reciprocal easement agreements (REAs) and other third-party restrictions, helping clients make operational and leasing decisions and facilitating strategic resolution of operational disputes.
Prior to his role at The Irvine Company, Mr. Raymond held an Executive Counsel role with the real estate legal group of The Walt Disney Company. Mr. Raymond also spent 12 years of private law firm practice, mostly with the firm then known as Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, where he gained significant real estate transactional experience, including high-rise office leasing and commercial purchase and sale transactions. Mr. Raymond is also a California licensed real estate broker, has been a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) since 1998, and is a 7-time speaker at the annual ICSC Law Conference.