August 17, 2022 – Accomplished corporate real estate attorney Andrew Yocopis has joined Procopio as its latest Partner, based in its Scottsdale, Arizona office. The award-winning attorney represents a wide range of clients, including developers, landowners and lenders, in an array of multi-million-dollar construction projects in Arizona and other parts of the United States.

“All of us at Procopio are pleased to welcome Andrew Yocopis as our newest Partner,” said Procopio Managing Partner John D. Alessio. “He’s earned a great reputation in Arizona for his stellar real estate practice, making him a strong fit for one of our most established, comprehensive and fastest-growing practice areas.”

Andrew represents clients in the acquisition, development, financing, leasing, and disposition of various commercial properties, including multifamily and mixed-use developments, office buildings, shopping centers, industrial sites, and hotels. Andrew also has experience representing financial institutions, REITs, CMBS trusts, homebuilders, commercial developers, and various non-real estate-related companies. Among his services are secured finance including non-traditional structures and collateral; acquisition, planning, development, financing, operation and disposition of real estate developments; and state trust lands.

Andrew is recognized as a Super Lawyers® Rising Star for Business Real Estate and a Best Lawyers® One to Watch for Real Estate Law, and was named a Next Generation of Legal Leaders in 2021 by the Phoenix Business Journal. He serves on the boards of the Berkeley Law Foundation and the Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona. Andrew earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, during which time he served as the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Member Relations Editor. He earned a B.S. from Arizona State University, graduating summa cum laude.

“I joined Procopio because I saw an opportunity to grow my practice while joining an amazing group of real estate attorneys at one of the premier full-service law firms in Southern California,” Andrew said. “I am eager to contribute to the real estate practice group and expand the firm’s presence in Arizona and the southwestern United States.”

You can find Procopio’s dozens of Real Estate attorneys in our San Diego, Del Mar Heights, Orange County, Silicon Valley and Scottsdale offices, providing a wide range of experience in many types of complex transactions. Its attorneys provide a full range of value-added services to real estate owners, investors, lenders, developers, property managers and real estate professionals, including purchase and sale transactions; portfolio acquisitions and dispositions; option agreements and 1031 exchanges; entity formation and joint ventures; due diligence; land use and entitlements; environmental and CEQA regulations; commercial loans, public finance and tax credits; commercial, transient-oriented and mixed-use development; subdivision documents for master-planned communities and high-rise projects; leasing of retail, office, industrial, medical, biotech and R&D space; and hotel and golf course developments. Legal areas of focus include acquisitions and dispositions; land use entitlements and project management; landlord and tenant lease representation; rural and urban development projects; real estate finance; and environmental and natural resources law.