David Hitchcock

United States

Buchalter Law Firm · J. David Hitchcock is a Shareholder in the Los Angeles office of Buchalter, a member of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group, and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Cannabis & Hemp Industry Law Group. Mr. Hitchcock’s practice focuses on real estate acquisitions and dispositions, loan originations, loan workouts and restructurings, loan sales, secured real estate finance, joint ventures, and general real estate matters. He has extensive experience representing clients in all areas of the real estate market – private equity funds, real estate developers, core and value-add real estate owners/operators, public school districts, as well as publicly traded REITs. Before returning to the practice of law in 2011, Mr. Hitchcock was a Vice President with an international private equity fund, in charge of a $1 billion portfolio of distressed commercial real estate mortgages and related real estate collateral. In this capacity, Mr. Hitchcock negotiated and resolved numerous defaulted loans, ran multi-state foreclosures and receiverships, managed REO, and bought and sold performing and non-performing debt. Before joining the fund, Mr. Hitchcock ran his own real estate development and mortgage brokerage company. Mr. Hitchcock has been named one of the The Best Lawyers in America in Real Estate Law from 2019-2026. He has also been named a 2023 Visionary in the real estate category by Los Angeles Times B2B Publishing.

United States