Joshua P. Rabinowitz

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Background

Leading southern California real estate and business attorney. Thirty years of experience handling complex transactions. Trusted confidant and solutions oriented.

There are few real estate and business attorneys with the depth of knowledge, experience and solutions-oriented approach Josh Rabinowitz possesses. That’s why companies, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals seek out his counsel to handle their most intricate real estate and business issues. Josh’s practice focuses on all aspects of real estate property matters from leases and purchase and sale agreements to easements, boundary issues and construction. Representing several of the region’s leading shopping centers and large property owners, Josh handles both commercial and high-end residential transactions, and intimately understands the critical elements to draw upon to ensure transactions are as seamless as possible and accomplish the client’s goals. 

Josh’s work counseling emerging and established companies includes guiding clients through all phases of their business—entity formation, financing, planning, negotiating and drafting contracts and mergers and acquisitions. While a client may come to him with a specific issue, Josh frequently provides more than legal counsel. He is a trusted counselor clients rely upon to identify and analyze creative solutions, provide candid feedback and build a cohesive team of experts. This trait makes him an asset to the ultra-high net worth individuals and companies he counsels on legal, business and family planning matters. 

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Representative Matters

  • Counsel to the buyer/borrower in the assumption of an approximate $9,540,000 CMBS loan in connection with the purchase of a multi-tenant office building in Carpinteria, California.
  • Counsel to the buyer of an approximate 11 acre historic estate in Montecito, California, commonly known as El Fureidis.
  • Counsel to numerous regional retail, multi-tenant and commercial/industrial landlords on a range of matters including lease review, negotiation, property acquisition and disposition, portfolio strategy as well as sensitive use-specific issues including cannabis cultivation.
  • Counsel to the buyer of Rancho San Carlos, a 1930s 237 acre estate in Montecito, California. The Brownstein team provided a spectrum of services from transactional work, to the management of land use, real estate permitting, and water rights due diligence.
  • Counsel to numerous regional retail, multi-tenant and commercial/industrial landlords on a range of matters including lease review, negotiation, property acquisition and disposition, and portfolio strategy.
  • Counsel to owner of an approximate 19.5-acre estate in Montecito, California. The Brownstein team has provided a spectrum of services from negotiating and drafting design and construction contracts to land use and water rights due diligence, and real estate permitting.

Insights & Publications

Insights & Publications

Credentials

Education

  • LL.M. in Taxation, 1998, University of San Diego School of Law
  • J.D., 1995, University of San Diego School of Law
  • B.A., 1990, University of California at San Diego

Admissions

  • California

Community Involvement

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:

Board of Directors, The Towbes Group, Inc.

Board of Directors, Montecito Bank Trust

Board of Directors, Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara

Steering Committee, UC Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project 

Recognition

AWARDS:

Pacific Coast Business Times, Who’s Who in Professional Services, 2021

Pacific Coast Business Times, Who’s Who in Commercial Real Estate Construction, 2021, 2023-2025

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