David Louis Preiss

David Preiss is a partner at Holland & Knight LLP in its San Francisco office and a member of the firm’s West Coast Land Use and Environmental Practice Group. His practice focuses on land use, real estate, and surface mining law. Mr. Preiss represents private and public sector clients in a wide range of zoning, subdivision, and other land use permitting, agreements (including development agreements, affordable housing agreements, and PLA’s), CEQA, and regulatory matters for new and existing residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use projects and related land use disputes. His real estate practice includes the negotiation and documentation of real property purchase and sales, ground leases, financing, easements, and CC&R’s, as well as complex title matters. Mr. Preiss also concentrates in California surface mining permitting, reclamation, and compliance matters, as well as related operations, acquisition, lease, and royalty agreements.

Mr. Preiss joined Holland & Knight in 2010. He previously was a partner and worked at other national and regional law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Preiss also previously served as vice president counsel for a developer of large master planned communities in Northern California. He received his law degree from the University of California Davis School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from Williams College, magna cum laude.

Mr. Preiss is a frequent writer and lecturer on land use topics. He is a co-author of “California Subdivision Map Act Practice,” CEB, 1987; “California Easements and Boundaries: Law and Litigation,” CEB, 2008; and “Office Leasing – Drafting and Negotiating the Lease,” CEB, 1996. Mr. Preiss has served as an adjunct professor of land use at the University of California Hastings College of Law. He has been named on multiple occasions to Best Lawyers in America (real estate), Northern California Super Lawyers (land use and zoning), and The Legal 500 USA (Real Estate & Construction; Land Use/Zoning).