Management Team
Executive Leadership
Jonathan Schaefler
General Counsel
Jonathan Schaefler joined Karney Properties in October 2026. Jonathan has over 15 years of commercial real estate experience as a transactional attorney and capital markets advisor, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financings, and leasing. As the Company’s chief legal officer, he oversees all legal and governance matters and supports the Company’s real estate and financial transactions.
Prior to joining Karney Properties, Jonathan was a Senior Managing Director on Newmark’s San Francisco Capital Markets team, where he held a multi-faceted role, completing billions in sales across office, life science, and industrial transactions.
Jonathan began his career as a real estate attorney in New York before joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles, where he represented a wide variety of institutional clients in transactions involving nearly all product types.
Jonathan earned a JD/MBA from the University of Southern California and earned a bachelor’s degree in history with honors from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the California and New York bars and a licensed California real estate broker.
