WIL SMITH
FOUNDER/CEO/PRESIDENT
GREENLAW PARTNERS
WHY: Founder of Greenlaw Partners, which has completed more than $10B worth of transactions across 340-plus deals. The Irvine-based real estate company has about 12M square feet of assets under management and another 15M square feet of properties that are entitled or under development.
IN THE NEWS: Smith’s Greenlaw Partners bought Von Karman Towers in Irvine from New York Life at a 55% discount in February. Greenlaw paid $37M for the 11-story office tower at 18201 Von Karman Ave. in Irvine.
NOTABLE: Greenlaw bought 2050 Main St., a high-end 13-story office tower in Irvine, for $57.5M in 2023. A $31M loan was used to buy the property. CoStar data shows Greenlaw closed on 38 lease deals in the past year and manages nearly 2.6M square feet across 29 properties. The company’s major transactions in 2024 included properties in Houston, Las Vegas, Cerritos, Mesa, Arizona, and Knoxville, Tennessee. Some of Greenlaw’s institutional investors and private capital partners include CrossHarbor Capital Partners, Duke Realty, Dune Real Estate Partners, Guggenheim Partners, KKR, Nuveen, Oaktree Capital and Westbrook Partners.
