Braeden Mansouri is a member of the Real Estate Practice Group in the Firm’s San Francisco office. Mr. Mansouri focuses his practice on land use and environmental issues, including real estate development, zoning, permitting, and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance. His practice includes assisting a broad range of private and public sector clients with due diligence review, land use entitlements, permitting, the approval of both affordable and market rate housing developments, and land use litigation. His practice additionally includes election law matters, especially with respect to land use planning initiatives and referenda.

Mr. Mansouri has extensive prior experience working on major development projects with public agencies in California, including past work representing numerous cities and special districts across Northern California. Previously, he clerked at the Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney and served as a judicial extern in the Land Law, Environmental, and Natural Resources Divisions at the Office of the California Attorney General in Sacramento.

In October 2022, Mr. Mansouri was elected to a seat on the Advisory Board of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District in San Francisco. Since January 2023, he has been Co-Chair of the Cultural District’s Land Use Committee.

Mr. Mansouri earned his J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where he served as an Articles Editor on the UC Davis Law Review. He also was the recipient of the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in Constitutional Law II, First Amendment. Mr. Mansouri earned his B.A. with majors in Political Science and Economics from the University of California, Irvine.