jcallister@calawyers.com

Mr. Callister is a transactional attorney with broad based real estate experience involving a diverse array of real estate related assets.  His experience includes representing clients in the development, acquisition, disposition, financing, and leasing of residential, multifamily, commercial, and mixed-use developments.  Mr. Callister has represented clients from a variety of areas within the real estate industry including developers of master planned communities as well as commercial and residential projects, REIT’s, retailers,  institutional lenders, pension fund advisors and homebuilders.  Mr. Callister also represents general corporate clients in connection with their real estate related needs, including companies in the healthcare, life sciences, food service, and technology industries among others.  Examples of Mr. Callister’s professional experience include advising on matters related to the development of large master planned communities and the negotiation and documentation of development agreements, merchant builder agreements, credit facilities, mezzanine financing, residential and commercial construction loans, construction contracts, complex joint venture arrangements, purchase and sale agreements, leases (including office, retail, industrial and other commercial leases), management agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, CC&Rs, and other real estate related contracts. 

Mr. Callister is a member of the Real Property Section of the California Bar Association and a member of the Urban Land Institute.  In 2005, 2006 and again in 2007 he was named as a Southern California Rising Star in Super Lawyers magazine.  Prior to joining Sherry Meyerhoff Hanson & Crance LLP in April of 2008, Mr. Callister was Counsel in the Newport Beach office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP and assistant general counsel of Shea Properties.  Mr. Callister received a BA in History from Brigham Young University in 1998 and graduated magna cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University where he was Order of the Coif and Lead Articles Editor of the Brigham Young University Law Review.