Michael P. Muzzy

Michael P. Muzzy is a partner in Lubin Olson’s Real Estate, Business, and Finance & Workouts service groups. He specializes in real estate transactions, joint ventures and other complex negotiations, development, finance, loan restructures and workouts, construction, and general business law. He has vast experience in all aspects of developer/owner representation, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, financings, leasing, loan and partnership workouts, co-ownership and TICs, public-private partnerships, tax credit financings and family office luxury property purchases.

His clients value his reputation for efficiently handling all aspects of property ownership and development from acquisition, debt and equity financing, and lease-up through disposition. Mr. Muzzy balances business and legal considerations to result in effective and cost-efficient representation while maintaining positive relationships with all parties.

Mr. Muzzy has been practicing law for 23 years, the last 20 at Lubin Olson. During his career, he has worked on nearly every conceivable type of real estate transaction through three economic cycles. He has represented investors, owners, landlords, tenants, lenders, developers, and operators in all real estate product types, including single-asset, portfolio, and entity acquisitions and sales; troubled real estate loans and developments; and private lenders, hotels, mortgage funds, and institutional lenders.

Mr. Muzzy is a member of the Real Property, Taxation, and Business Law sections of the California State Bar, and the Bar Association of San Francisco in the  Land Use, and Real Estate sections. Prior to joining Lubin Olson, Mr. Muzzy practiced at a boutique firm in San Francisco where he represented family offices and closely-held businesses in tax and real estate.

In a more adventurous earlier part of his career, Mr. Muzzy was a ski patroller (EMT) at a major resort in Colorado and a field researcher on marine science teams tagging and tracking great white sharks off the coast of California and surveying Pacific grey whales for the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Mr. Muzzy is a native Californian. In his spare time, you can find him involved in athletics, working out, exploring the remote backcountry, surfing, fishing, cooking or trying to play music.