Looking out the window of Mayer Brown’s office in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, real estate partner M. Scott Cooper said he’d been involved in the financing of “well over half” of the buildings within view.
That expertise made him and his longtime colleague Daniel Liffmann a catch for Mayer Brown, which hired them away this week from Sidley Austin. Philip Recht, partner-in-charge of Mayer Brown’s Los Angeles office and a leader of the firm’s California government relations and public law practice, said the new hires bring Mayer Brown’s local real estate presence back to about a dozen lawyers.
