Richard L. Moskitis

Retired Partner

Overview

Richard L. Moskitis is a retired partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. He has over 30 years of experience in a broad range of business and real estate matters, including the formation of opportunity funds and investment entities, purchases, sales, exchanges, joint ventures, financing, commercial leasing, development, construction, brokerage and property management. Mr. Moskitis was a member of the firm's Real Estate Practice and lead the firm's focus on Public Private Partnerships.

Mr. Moskitis was responsible for hundreds of real estate acquisitions, dispositions and developments throughout the United States. He worked on properties being developed for solar energy farm projects as well as oil field co-generation facilities and related easements. Mr. Moskitis was responsible for the real estate aspects of public private partnership projects involving billions of dollars of developments across the United States.

Representative Experience

  • Served as underwriter’s real estate counsel in connection with issuance of $1.2B in military housing revenue bonds secured by leasehold mortgages on multiple locations in California
  • Represented the buyer of a portfolio of 20 office buildings including assumption of multiple insurance company loans
  • Represented the owner of 3075 acres of land in the Mojave Desert under option to be used as mitigation land for a solar energy project

Recognition

Mr. Moskitis has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system.

Education

Mr. Moskitis is a graduate of the University of Southern California Law Center, where he was an editor of the Southern California Law Review, elected to the Order of the Coif, and graduated first in his class. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University.

Admissions

Mr. Moskitis is a member of the California Bar.