Global law firm Greenberg Traurig continues the expansion of its real estate practice in Northern California with the addition of Jasmine Tzeng Martin as a shareholder in the firm’s San Francisco office. Martin joins the firm from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Martin advises private equity real estate funds, fund managers and sponsors, developers and other institutional real estate investors and lenders. Her practice includes a particular focus on the representation of clients in connection with mezzanine financing, construction financing, joint ventures and other sophisticated financing transactions.

Goldberg Segalla added Christopher C. Surh to the firm’s transportation group in Orange County. Surh was previously with Bremer Whyte Brown and O’Meara in Newport Beach. Surh counsels and defends clients in complex civil litigation matters, with particular focus on clients in the transportation industry. His experience ranges from matters involving personal injury, workers’ compensation, and employment law to insurance defense, subrogation, contract disputes, construction defects, and real estate. Surh regularly handles litigation from inception through trial, settlement or mediation.