Miller Starr Regalia (MSR), a preeminent California real estate law firm for more than 60 years, announced today the addition of Kierston Cannon to the firm’s Transactional Department. She joins the firm’s Walnut Creek headquarters office.

“Kierston’s skills and background attending to general corporate matters, supporting complex transactions, and providing thorough due diligence needed to successfully complete transactions will help deepen our bench strength,” said Xavier L. Gutierrez, chair of Miller Starr Regalia’s Transactional Department. “We’re thrilled to welcome her to our group.”

Cannon brings experience supporting large, complex mergers and acquisitions, conducting due diligence, compiling diligence memorandums and disclosure schedules, and drafting ancillary documents including organizational documents and commercial contracts.

“We are excited to have Kierston join MSR.  She will be a great asset to our Transactional Department,” said Ella K. Gower, MSR’s Managing Shareholder.

Cannon earned her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and received her B.A. in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Earlier in her career, she served as a disability rights intern for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. 

MSR’s Transactional Department assists clients involved in all aspects of the commercial real estate industry, including many of the world’s largest technology companies.  The firm represents developers and owners as well as tenants of commercial office, retail, mixed-use, hospitality, warehouse, data center, industrial, and residential projects of all sizes; national and regional retailers; restaurant chains; banks and other financial institutions; and real estate management companies and entrepreneurs. The firm structures, negotiates, and documents complex transactions throughout the United States and overseas.

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Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than sixty-years.  For nearly all that time, our firm has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law.  We call it “the Book.”  The Book is the most-widely used and judicially-recognized real estate treatise in California and is cited by practicing attorneys and courts throughout the state.  Our firm has experience in all real property matters, including full-service litigation and dispute resolution services, transactions, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, common interest development, construction, management, title insurance, environmental law, and land use. For more information, visit www.msrlegal.com.