August 9, 2022 (California) – Experienced residential, commercial, and mixed-use common interest real estate development attorney Tara Castro Narayanan has joined Procopio as a Partner, based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. She has represented developers, builders, owners, and title insurance companies in both state and federal jurisdictions on a wide variety of projects, including large and small residential planned developments and condominiums, master-planned communities, high‐rise mixed-use condominiums, industrial and commercial parks, senior housing, and affordable housing.

“Tara Castro Narayanan is a perfect addition to Procopio as our newest Partner,” said Procopio Managing Partner John D. Alessio. “Real estate law dates back to the firm’s founding and remains one of our most comprehensive and active practice areas. Tara’s experience and understanding of critical real estate issues such as common interest development and title insurance complements and deepens an already strong area of law for Procopio.”

Among other services, Tara assists clients with preparing governing documents and related easement, land sharing, and maintenance agreements for residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use fee simple and ground lease developments. She works with clients on obtaining local and state project approvals and evaluating the benefits of air space parcels and/or condominium structures. Tara also advises clients on issues related to the Subdivision Map Act, Subdivided Lands Act, Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, Commercial and Industrial Common Interest Development Act, and the Right to Repair Law (SB 800). In addition, she helps resolve clients’ title insurance and other real property disputes, including quieting title regarding easements, encroachments, and illegal subdivisions.

“I joined Procopio because of the quality of its attorneys and to offer clients the potential for complete representation that comes from working with a high-caliber, full-service law firm,” Tara said. “I am eager to contribute to the real estate practice group. I look forward to the mentorship and learning that I will receive as much as I welcome the opportunity to share my own knowledge and expertise in common interest developments.”

Tara is active in the legal and professional community, including service on the Department of Real Estate Committee for the Bay Area chapter of the Building Industry Association; service on the Legal Affairs Committee and Department of Real Estate Committee for the California Building Industry Association; and service in other organizations such as Professional Women in Building, the California Minority Counsel Program, and the Bay Area Council. She has served as Pro Bono Counsel for Habitat for Humanity. Tara earned her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law following a Phi Beta Kappa BA from University of California, Berkeley.

Procopio’s Real Estate attorneys provide a wide range of experience in many types of complex transactions. Its attorneys 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.