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CG33 Attorneys Honored as Business Women of the Year Finalists by the San Diego Business Journal
Amelia Sanchez, Priya Huggett, and Riley Cutner-Orrantia named Business Women of the Year for 2025
SAN DIEGO (November 24, 2025) – Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson (CGS3) attorneys Riley Cutner-Orrantia, Priya Huggett and Amelia Sanchez have been recognized by the San Diego Business Journal as 2025 Business Women of the Year Finalists.
The annual program honors San Diego’s most influential businesswomen, lauding their professional achievements, industry leadership and ongoing commitment to the community. Finalist are featured in the November 24th and December 8th editions of the publication, with winners to be announced at the awards ceremony on Wednesday, December 11th, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla-Aventine.
CGS3 founding partner Sean Southard praised the honorees as “exceptional attorneys whose legal acumen, community engagement and ability to navigate complex real estate matters make them indispensable to our team. Each has a proven record of driving business outcomes, resolving sophisticated issues and facilitating high-profile transactions with precision and strategic insight.”
Since joining CGS3 as a partner in 2022, Huggett has drawn on more than two decades of experience spanning private equity, development, acquisitions, dispositions, and complex commercial transactions. Before CGS3, she served as general counsel of Brixton Capital, overseeing a real estate investment portfolio exceeding $1 billion, and held similar roles at Kelly Investment Group and Sea Breeze Properties. She has also worked for Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP and Solomon Ward Seidenwurm and Smith LLP.
Her practice centers on corporate and commercial real estate transactions – including joint ventures, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, financing, and vendor and licensing contracts – across multifamily, retail, residential, hospitality and office sectors. Huggett also serves on the board of directors for NAIOP San Diego and previously served on the board of the New Children’s Museum. Her pro bono commitments include work with Casa Cornelia Law Center, providing legal services to victims of human and civil rights violations.
Sanchez joined CGS3 in 2015 and became partner in 2022, bringing more than 20 years of commercial real estate and transactional experience in both in-house and national law firm settings. She represents companies across all asset classes, advising on complex leasing transactions including retail, office, life science, mixed-use, industrial, telecommunications and solar – as well as purchase and sale deals and a wide range of business matters. She was recently appointed to lead the firm’s newly formed sustainability and renewable energy practice group – helping developers, investors, and property owners navigate the evolving world of green development and renewable energy initiatives.
Before CGS3, Sanchez served as senior legal counsel for Cricket Communications and held roles at Newland Communities and Sheppard Mullin. Outside her legal practice, she co-founded the SES Tennis Center, a nonprofit dedicated to building public tennis courts and expanding youth access in Tecate, Mexico.
Also a key member of the firm’s sustainability and renewable energy practice, Cutner-Orantia joined CGS3 in 2022 and represents developers and investors in all stages of commercial real estate projects including acquisition, financing, construction and development of commercial, residential and mixed-use assets. Skilled in negotiating renewable energy transactions, she also helps clients enhance the value of their commercial properties through the installation of electric vehicle charging stations and sustainable energy systems. She previously honed her skills at Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP in Denver, working on real estate, renewable energy and P3 infrastructure matters.
Her environmental experience is equally noteworthy: she has worked with Earthjustice, served as managing editor of the Colorado Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Review, and has long been recognized for her contributions to environmental and sustainability initiatives.
About Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3)
CGS3 is a recognized leader among a new generation of commercial real estate law firms with practice areas covering the entire commercial real estate life cycle, including finance, acquisition/disposition, entity formation, tax, construction & development, land use, leasing, distressed asset workouts and dispute resolution. Earning a reputation as one of California’s leading commercial real estate law firms, CGS3 recruits some of the state’s top real estate attorneys from both large corporate firms and senior in-house positions. For more information, visit http://www.cgs3.com.