Spencer Kallick

Partner at Allen Matkins

Speaker

Spencer has decades of experience advising national investors, developers, institutional entities, high-net-worth individuals, and family offices in complex land use entitlements and real estate transactions. As operating partner of the Century City office, Spencer provides his clients with concierge legal services to deliver efficient, practical solutions that get deals done. Clients value the legal and management experience Spencer brings to their businesses, and many look to him as outside general counsel on a broad range of matters.

Spencer helps clients obtain entitlements, with extensive experience navigating a myriad of federal, state, county, and city land use and zoning regulations, including the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the California Coastal Act, and Density Bonus Law. He has worked on urban infill, mixed-use, transit-oriented, affordable housing, senior living, digital signage, hospitality, multifamily, and retail projects, with experience across virtually every major asset class. Spencer’s clients include some of the most prestigious developers and investors in the world, such as Alliance Residential, AvalonBay Communities, American Realty Advisors, Artisan Ventures, Blackstone, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Choice Hotels, Digital Realty, EOS Investors, Faring, Goldrich Kest, Hines, Hudson Pacific Properties, JPMorgan, Kilroy, Link Logistics, Lincoln Property Company, Oaktree, Pendulum Property Partners, RLJ Lodging Trust, Silver Creek Development, and Westbrook.

As a former city attorney handling land use matters, Spencer leverages his deep understanding of government processes and long-standing relationships at the federal, state, and local levels to resolve issues quickly for his clients. Having worked on development from both the public and private side of the aisle, Spencer has a holistic understanding of land use matters, and he’s able to create consensus on potentially contentious projects. Further, he has a curated contact list of architects, traffic engineers, environmental consultants, and other specialists enabling him to quickly assemble the right mix of personnel to further his clients’ business objectives.

• Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (2023 - 2025)
• Named to Southern California Rising Stars by Super Lawyers (2022)