Shiraz Tangri is a partner in Alston & Bird’s Environmental & Land Development Group and assists clients with the development of real estate, energy and infrastructure projects. His practice involves all aspects of land use entitlements, compliance, litigation and lobbying, including the California Environmental Quality Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Shiraz specializes in mixed-use and urban in-fill projects in Los Angeles and other Southern California cities, including housing, shopping centers and transit-oriented development. He routinely handles issues as diverse as green building, adaptive re-use, air quality and permitting, renewable energy, sustainable development and transportation planning. His residential projects have ranged from single-family homes to large, master-planned communities, and across a broad spectrum of income levels from high-end luxury homes to affordable and work-force multi-family housing. Shiraz’s expertise also includes complex multi-party and multi-site litigation involving water rights, contaminated properties, toxic torts, insurance coverage and products liability issues.
- Land use litigation counsel for an energy client; successfully defended the approval of a $400M marine oil super-tanker terminal in the Port of Los Angeles, handling all litigation activities and successfully winning the case at trial in January 2010.
- Land use and litigation counsel for the developer of a $4 billion, urban, mixed-use redevelopment project in downtown Los Angeles. Successfully negotiated the settlement agreement to quickly resolve litigation and allow project to meet milestone deadlines.
- Land use and litigation counsel for a joint powers authority responsible for developing goods movement infrastructure for the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, including a $700M bridge replacement and an expressway project. Won the state court trial defending the approvals of the expressway project.
- Real estate and land use counsel for an international renewable energy developer. Represented the client in a proposed $43M acquisition of 12,500 acres in Southern California for the development of potential wind and solar power projects. Negotiated multiple aspects of the real estate transaction and coordinated land use and environmental due diligence review.
- Land use and litigation counsel for an urban shopping center in Los Angeles. Negotiated the settlement agreement to resolve litigation and community opposition, and obtained approvals of revised project after creating a community benefits program.
- Land use and environmental counsel to a regulated electric utility in advising project development teams on issues related to obtaining approvals from the California Public Utilities Commission and other agencies for new electrical distribution facilities.
- Land use counsel for an affordable housing developer of LEED workforce multi-family housing development and joint use facility. Obtained entitlements on an expedited basis and negotiated an agreement to avoid litigation and resolve community opposition.
- Environmental and land use counsel for the developer of over 30 master-planned communities and commercial sites in Riverside County and Antelope Valley. Led the project teams and coordinated environmental and land use due diligence, acquisition and remediation activities.
- Litigation and regulatory counsel for oil companies in defending toxic tort, property damage and products liability cases arising out of environmentally impacted sites in New York and California.
- Litigation counsel for an auto maker and railroad company in environmental cost recovery and insurance coverage cases relating to manufacturing facilities and waste disposal sites around the country.
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December 30, 2011
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January 2012
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December 21, 2011
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