TimothyJ.
Reimers

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Timothy Reimers

Overview

Tim Reimers advises clients in the real estate space — including private equity sponsors, developers, healthcare systems, mission-driven investors, and public entities — on high-stakes real estate and finance transactions. Known for his strategic insight and creative structuring, Tim is a trusted advisor helping clients clarify the path forward while navigating complexity.

Tim represents clients across a range of real estate and capital projects, including acquisitions, joint ventures, development, credit facilities, sale-leasebacks, public-private partnerships, and tax-advantaged structures. His work spans sectors including multifamily, hospitals, senior housing, behavioral health, industrial, infrastructure, and mixed-use assets. He brings fluency in healthcare regulatory, nonprofit, tax, and canon law considerations, offering pragmatic solutions at the intersection of legal risk and business strategy.

He also advises public agencies, hospitals, underwriters, and investors in connection with public finance matters, including capital markets transactions, disclosure obligations, and securities compliance.

Tim works with impact investors to strategically align capital and values. He delivers projects that create thriving, equitable opportunities and support diverse communities. His work incentivizes economic equality and worker empowerment, reverses adverse environmental impacts, and drives meaningful, measurable change.

Clients value Tim’s personal investment in their success. He’s known for caring deeply—for the work, for the outcomes, and for the people behind them. That care, paired with sharp judgment and creative problem-solving, makes him a valued thought partner and advisor in navigating complexity.

Tim has recruited, mentored, and developed a diverse, high-performing team of professionals who share his passion for excellence, creativity, and client service.

Experience

Real Estate

  • Represented a real estate group in connection with the purchase and redevelopment of 3300 Mission Street in San Francisco, providing advice in connection with all aspects of the development including, acquisition, entitlements, financing, construction and other matters. 
  • Served as seller’s counsel in connection with the cross-border sale of a portfolio of distressed hospitals and hospital properties in Southern California.
  • Assisted a large health care system in connection with the acquisition of a fully licensed, community-based, health center to provide affordable, primary medical care in Orange County, California.
  • Assisted a large health care system in connection with the acquisition of a surgery center and medical office building on its hospital campus and requiring renegotiation of its reciprocal easement and parking arrangements in connection with its related facilities.
  • Assisted a large health care system with the development of a leading on-site wellness center program, including leasing, subleasing and coordination of related regulator matters.
  • Assisted a large California health care system in connection with the leasing of over one million square feet of hospital, medical office building and related healthcare space.  
  • Assisted a large health care system in connection with strategic acquisition of hospital adjacent assemblage for further hospital development.  
  • Seller’s counsel in connection with the disposition of a large airport adjacent hotel property.
  • Represented an investor-owned utility in connection with the acquisition of environmentally sensitive land for the development of a substation and in connection with the sale of surplus property in connection with a significant retail development.
  • Represented a large institutional property manager in dozens of leasing matters, including successfully negotiating a build-to-suit lease with a publicly traded biotech company for an approximately 320,000-square-foot industrial building in California.
  • Negotiated acquisition of replacement rights-of-way from the State of California and a redevelopment agency of the City of Los Angeles; a multi-user access road Master Easement; street dedications; various infrastructure easements; and a post-closing cooperation agreement. Negotiated with the end users of the access road the terms of their easements to satisfy replacement property right requirements. Structured transactions to comply in connection with the California Surplus Land Statute. Prepared forms of purchase agreements for bulk sales of real property, together with forms of bidders’ instructions, disclaimers, deeds, bidders’ certificates and addenda for local professionals. Prepared reservation of rights letter forms for use by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) officers in connection with defaulted loans providing for partial re-conveyances, acceptance of payment or partial payment and provision for advances.

Real Estate Finance

  • Served as borrower’s counsel in connection with over $250,000,000 of financing and refinancing of prop-co and op-co loans for the acquisition, construction, development and operation of behavioral health and chemical dependency facilities in California, Arizona, Illinois and Texas.
  • Served as borrower’s counsel in connection with over $1,000,000,000 of real estate secured and mezzanine financings. 
  • Served as lender’s counsel in connection with over $103,000,000 financing for the acquisition and strategic further development of a multi-property medical office building portfolio.
  • Advised the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in connection with the securitization of mortgage loans and the re-securitization of interests in securitizations acquired from failed banks.
  • Served as counsel to the FDIC in connection with its first structured loan sale targeted at small investors.
  • Assisted a large health care system in connection with the syndication of various medical office building projects.

Public Finance

  • Served as disclosure counsel in connection with the sale of $230 million in Veterans General Obligation Bonds and Home Purchase Revenue Bonds to finance the CalVet Home Loan Program, pursuant to which CalVet assists eligible veterans in financing the purchase of a home.
  • Served Los Angeles World Airports as disclosure counsel and co-bond counsel in over $3 billion of bonds issued to finance capital projects, including construction of various elements of the Bradley West Terminal Project and construction of the Central Utility Plant Project.
  • Assisted California Department of Veterans Affairs (Cal Vets) in developing its credit and served as an integral part of Cal Vet’s financing team for the creation and successful execution a new “double barreled” State of California General Obligation/Cal Vets credit.
  • Developed a creative financing structure for a high speed rail borrower wherein the borrower’s joint venture guarantors also provide debt service reserve fund sureties, which were not otherwise available at reasonable rates, in support of the loan. The adoption of this structure permitted a stalled and otherwise economically unviable key component of the client’s financing program to proceed.
  • Served as part of the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles’ financing team in connection with its highly publicized and successful formal tender solicitation transaction. This transaction received Bond Buyer Deal of the Year consideration. 
  • Advised on 11 bond series for the San Francisco Airport Commission in excess of $1.1 billion, including six variable rate series, Build American Bonds, and a successful tender transaction.
  • Served in a bond counsel role, as underwriters’ counsel and disclosure counsel in connection with over $20 billion State of California new money general obligation bonds and general obligation refunding bonds. Served as disclosure counsel and underwriters’ counsel in connection with over $500 million State Public Works Board lease revenue bonds, which benefited, among others, the Department of General Services, Department of Education, Department of Developmental Services, and the Trustees of the California State University.
  • Represented a national bank in connection with the replacement of a letter of credit securing and providing liquidity for their borrower’s payments on industrial development bonds and re-collateralization of the credit facility and additional loans made under this lending relationship.
  • Served in a bond counsel role in connection with the competitive issuance of over $700 million of Water Revenue Bonds by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) issued to finance, among other things, a portion of the design, acquisition, and construction of various capital projects in furtherance of SFPUC’s Water System Improvement Program.
  • Served as bank counsel in connection with a loan to the Broad Beach Geological Hazard Abatement District for a project to repair Broad Beach located in Malibu, CA.
Credentials
Education

J.D., University of Connecticut, 2001

B.A., University of California, Riverside, 1998

Admissions

California

Honors

Commercial Real Estate Visionary, Los Angeles Times Commercial Real Estate: Updates, Trends & Visionaries, 2023, 2025

Recognized in Real Estate - Construction, Legal 500 US, 2023-2024

Best Lawyers in America, Health Care Law, 2022-2026

Healthcare Influencer, GlobeSt’s Real Estate Forum, 2022, 2024

Southern California Rising Stars, Bonds/Government Finance, Super Lawyers, 2013

Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2024
Memberships

Board of Trustees, Maranatha High School, Pasadena, CA, where he leads the Advancement Committee, the Capital Campaign Committee and other committees.

Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Directors, Southern California Leadership Network, an organization that provides cohort-based, in-class and experiential learning to support the development of the skills, knowledge and aptitude of compassionate, emotionally intelligent, cross-sector leaders.

Thought Leadership

With an eye toward anticipating risk and avoiding the pitfalls that often typify complex transactions, Tim leads training seminars on various topics, including healthcare real estate, securities and disclosure responsibilities and rules for SEC compliance intended for staff and attorneys, as well as opportunities for real estate lenders in the public finance markets.