David Waite, partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, has been awarded the CRE (Counselor of Real Estate) credential by The Counselors of Real Estate, an international group of distinguished real estate practitioners who provide expert advisory services on complex real property and land use related matters. The accreditation was awarded at the Counselors’ 2017 Annual Convention in Montréal.
Waite has more than 25 years of real estate, land use and environmental law experience, with particular expertise in CEQA, climate change, complex development agreements, discretionary permits and entitlements, infrastructure agreements, public-private partnerships, subdivisions, zoning, environmental regulatory compliance, CERCLA, RCRA and Proposition 65. He is a recommended attorney in the real estate category on the 2017 Legal 500 USA list, and has been named a top attorney in Southern California by Super Lawyers for seven consecutive years. He also has been recognized by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the top 50 development attorneys in California, and is a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.
Waite regularly appears before planning commissions, city councils and other federal, state and local government agencies on land use and regulatory matters. He has worked on a number of widely publicized matters, including his recent work processing the land use, environmental and regulatory approvals for the development of the notable Porsche Experience Center at a 53-acre Brownfield site in Carson.
Membership in The Counselors of Real Estate is selective and extended by invitation only, attesting to the practitioner’s expertise and proven competence in his or her chosen area of real estate. Members receive the CRE credential in recognition of proven superior problem-solving ability. Counselors are recognized in the marketplace as having consistently demonstrated the highest levels of knowledge, experience, integrity and judgment. Fewer than 1,100 real estate professionals currently hold the designation.
The Counselors of Real Estate, established in 1953 and headquartered in Chicago, is an international professional organization whose members provide objective, reliable advice and counsel on matters affecting all forms of real property in the United States and abroad. Members include ranking representatives of real estate consulting, financial, legal and accounting firms as well as leaders of Wall Street, government and academia.
