Louis Huskins, partner emeritus with Irell & Manella LLP, is a resident of the firm's Los Angeles office. Mr. Huskins specializes in the representation of real estate owners and in structuring the business and tax aspects of a broad range of joint venture business entities (e.g., general and limited partnerships and limited liability companies) with involvements in all aspects of real estate ownership, development and investment. A veteran of the economic cycles that impact real estate all too frequently, his activities include the financial restructuring of Southern California companies and the work-out of distressed real estate projects and loans. Having spent more than thirty years with Irell & Manella, Mr. Huskins has represented numerous real estate investors, developers, lending institutions, lessors and lessees in a wide array of transactions involving raw land, office buildings, shopping centers, industrial properties, hotels, condominiums, single family home developments, and mixed use and master communities.

Mr. Huskins has given numerous lectures and written extensively on real estate and tax-related subjects for the California Education of the Bar, Urban Land Institute and other professional organizations. He has been a featured speaker at University of Southern California Tax Institute four times and has published four articles in the Institute Proceedings. He has taught real property subjects at the law schools of University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California and Hastings, and served for many years as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University's masters in tax program where he teaches Federal Income Tax Consequences of Real Property Transactions and Partnership Taxation.

Not only has Mr. Huskins given lectures and written extensively, but he has also received many awards and honors. In 2007, he was named to the Southern California "Super Lawyers" list by Los Angeles Magazine. Mr. Huskins has also been named in The Best Lawyers in America for over twenty years.

After attending University of Chicago School of Law, Mr. Huskins was assistant professor of law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, where he taught courses in real estate, business planning and insolvency reorganization for two years before leaving to join Irell & Manella.

Bar & Court Admissions

• 1968, Illinois
• 1970, California