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WilliamTicknor

Partner
Los Angeles

O 310.382.1326

WilliamTicknor

Partner

Bill, a partner in the Real Estate group, focuses on complex commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions and finance. He represents real estate funds, developers, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional and non-institutional investors.

Bill’s experience includes negotiating single- and multi-asset portfolios; traditional acquisition and construction loans; refinancings; loan assumptions; defeasances; workouts; syndicated, participating and securitized loans; mezzanine financings; and preferred equity. He advises on transactions involving single trophy assets as well as multi-asset and whole-company deals and encompassing a broad range of commercial properties, including industrial facilities, luxury hotels and resorts, office buildings, shopping centers, parking garages, self-storage facilities, student housing, and multifamily apartments.

Named to the 2025 and 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers list (Real Estate Transactions)

Legal 500 Los Angeles Elise - Real Estate 2026
Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2026
Recognized in Best Lawyers 2027

Focus Areas

Examples of Bill’s experience include:

  • Representing an institutional real estate investor in its $5.1 billion acquisition of a large affordable housing portfolio comprised of more than 80,000 units across more than 650 assets nationwide.
  • Representing a large national jewelry chain in its new lease of a new flagship store in Pasadena.
  • Representing a large social impact investment firm in construction loan financing for a variety of healthcare related projects.
  • Representing an institutional real estate investor in its acquisition and financing of a portfolio of 39 industrial properties totaling approximately 6 million square feet, located in key logistics markets in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Harrisburg, Houston, and Orlando. The loans were structured as mortgage and mezzanine-level debt with a revolving credit facility component.
  • Advising a developer on its acquisition and construction financing of a 71,776-square-foot creative space building, including office and retail, in Santa Monica, California.
  • Representing a private real estate syndicator in its acquisition, development, financing, and management of an approximately $850 million portfolio of multifamily projects located throughout the U.S.
  • Representing an institutional real estate investor in its financing of a 347-room luxury hotel in Santa Monica, California.
  • Advising an institutional real estate investor on its acquisition and financing of a trophy asset shopping center that included a retail complex with office space and a parking garage located in Pasadena, California.
  • Representing an institutional real estate investor in its financing of an institutional quality portfolio of eight office properties totaling approximately 2.1 million square feet located throughout Orange County California’s Greater Airport Area submarket.
  • Advising an institutional real estate investor on its acquisition and financing of a portfolio of office buildings totaling 426,863 square feet and a tenancy in common interest in a 1,594-stall parking structure located in California.
  • Listed as a Recommended Lawyer in the inaugural edition of Legal 500 City Elite – Los Angeles for Real Estate, 2026
  • Listed as a Recommended Lawyer in Legal 500, Real Estate: Large Cap (+500M+), 2026
  • Named to the 2025 and 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers list (Real Estate Transactions)
  • AV Preeminent® Peer Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024-2027 for Real Estate Law

Community Activities

  • Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
  • Union Station Homeless Services Housing Innovation Committee, chair

Education

  • University of Southern California Gould School of Law, J.D., 1999
  • University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1995

Bar Admissions

  • California