Michael P. Muzzy

Partner
Michael P. Muzzy
Services

Education

  • Golden Gate University School of Law (J.D. 2001)
    • With Honors
  • Golden Gate University, Ageno School of Business (M.B.A. 2001)
  • University of California, San Diego (B.S. Biology, 1996)
    • Minor in Film Studies

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • California

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

Judicial Clerkships

  • Extern to Honorable Elizabeth D. Laporte, United States District Court, Northern District of California

Publications & Speaking Engagements

Publications

  • Consultant and Comments Author, Ground Lease Practice (2d ed. Cal. CEB 2009)
  • Featured Expert, Table of Experts, “Opportunity Zones – How Investors, Business and Cities Can Benefit from Qualified Opportunity Zones,” San Francisco Business Times, June 2019

Speaking Engagements

  • Speaker, “Future-Proofing Multifamily, Tech, Sustainability & Smart Apartments,” Bisnow Annual Conference, September 15, 2022
  • Speaker, “Attractive Asset Classes and Policy in SF: Bay Area,” Bisnow Annual Conference, April 26, 2021
  • Speaker, “Capital Markets Office Outlook: The 5 Year Plan,” Bisnow Annual Conference, September 19, 2017
  • Speaker, “The Great Investment Debate – QOZ versus 1031,” Webinar Hosted by Old Republic Title Company, IPX Exchange, Baker Tilly and Lubin Olson
  • Speaker, “Transfer Tax and Reassessment – When Are They Due and How Can you Structure Your Transaction to Avoid Them,” State Bar Real Property Law Section Annual Retreat, May 2015

Michael P. Muzzy is a partner in Lubin Olson’s Real Estate, Business, and Finance & Workouts service groups. He specializes in real estate transactions, joint ventures and other complex negotiations, development, finance, loan restructures and workouts, construction, and general business law. He has vast experience in all aspects of developer/owner representation, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, financings, leasing, loan and partnership workouts, co-ownership and TICs, and family office luxury property purchases. 

His clients value his reputation for efficiently handling all elements of property ownership and development from acquisition, debt and equity financing, and lease-up through disposition. Mr. Muzzy balances business and legal considerations to result in effective and cost-efficient representation while maintaining positive relationships with all parties. 

Mr. Muzzy has been practicing law for 22 years and with Lubin Olson since 2003. During his career, he has worked on just about every conceivable type of real estate transaction through three economic cycles. He has represented investors, owners, landlords, tenants, lenders, developers, and operators in all real estate product types, including single-asset, portfolio, and entity acquisitions and sales; troubled real estate loans and developments; and private lenders, hotels, mortgage funds, and institutional lenders.

Mr. Muzzy is a member of the State Bar of California in the Real Property, Taxation, and Business Law sections and the Bar Association of San Francisco in the Environmental, Land Use, and Real Estate sections.

Prior to joining Lubin Olson, Mr. Muzzy practiced at a boutique firm in San Francisco where he represented family offices and closely-held businesses in tax and real estate.

In a cooler past life, Mr. Muzzy worked as a ski patroller (EMT) at a major resort in Colorado, on a marine science research team capturing, tagging, and tracking great white sharks off the coast of California and on a Pacific grey whale survey team.

He is a native Californian. In his spare time, you can find him coaching basketball and baseball, working out, wandering in the remote backcountry, surfing, or pretending to play music.