Attorney, investor, advisor, and builder — Scott A. Chaplan brings decades of legal and transactional experience across an AV-rated law firm, a national real estate platform, a premiere advisory practice, and a 107-year-old building science company.
Scott A. Chaplan, Esq. has built one of the most distinctive careers at the intersection of law, capital, and enterprise. As Founding Member of Greene & Chaplan, LLP — an AV-rated business boutique — he has spent decades representing family offices, high net worth individuals, mid-market companies, real estate developers, investors, buyers, sellers, capital providers, and non-profit organizations.
As Executive Chairman of Del Rey Urban, he oversees a diversified national portfolio spanning residential, industrial, office, and light manufacturing assets across California and key growth markets throughout the United States.
As founder of Del Rey Advisory, Scott brings the full weight of his legal acumen and transactional experience to clients navigating complex deals, capital formation, and strategic growth — local knowledge with international reach.
As Vice Chairman of Hayward Lumber Company — a 107-year-old California institution — Scott leads the firm's expansion into the intersection of building science and human health, anchored by the Hayward Score platform.
Scott is an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law, where he served on the Advisory Board during the founding of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Law and taught entrepreneurship. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Kaplan University, where he teaches real estate. A recognized author and thought leader, Scott's five published works span corporate law, real estate, finance, and personal prosperity.
Greene & Chaplan, LLP is a business boutique law firm representing clients at the intersection of wealth, enterprise, and real property. As Founding Member, Scott A. Chaplan has built a practice defined by senior-level attention, transactional depth, and the rare capacity to serve as legal counsel, business strategist, and trusted advisor in a single relationship.
The firm holds an AV Preeminent rating — Martindale-Hubbell's highest designation — reflecting both the highest level of legal skill and the strongest ethical standards as assessed by peers and members of the judiciary. For clients navigating complex transactions, capital events, or enterprise decisions, this credential signals what they already know: they are working with counsel at the top of the field.
Greene & Chaplan serves a carefully selected client roster: family offices and multi-generational wealth holders requiring discreet, integrated counsel; high net worth individuals managing complex personal and business affairs; mid-market companies at inflection points; real estate developers, investors, buyers, sellers, and capital providers; and non-profit organizations navigating governance, transactions, and strategy.
The firm's practice is deliberately boutique — chosen clients receive partner-level engagement, not delegation. Every matter is handled with the precision, discretion, and strategic intelligence that sophisticated clients demand.
Del Rey Advisory assembles a curated roster of senior advisors — each a recognized authority in their domain — to deliver integrated legal, financial, investment, operational, and technology counsel to a select clientele.
Founded in 1918 on the California coast, Hayward Lumber Company has spent over a century supplying the materials that shape the spaces where people live, work, sleep, and raise families. That long view taught us something the industry rarely says aloud: the choices made during construction and renovation have a direct, measurable effect on human health.
As Vice Chairman, Scott A. Chaplan leads Hayward's evolution from a premier building materials supplier into a health-forward platform company. The thesis is straightforward — every building decision is also a health decision — and the Hayward Score application is the tool that finally makes that measurable.
Hayward Score assesses a home across dozens of dimensions: air quality, natural light, thermal comfort, acoustic environment, moisture and mold risk, chemical toxin load, biophilic connection, and water quality. The result is a single score — from 0 to 100 — that tells you, plainly, whether your home is working for your health or against it.
This is not certification. It is not inspection. It is a living assessment that changes as your home changes — and a roadmap for building healthier, grounded in a century of material expertise.
Scott A. Chaplan and his affiliated entities work with a select group of clients. Whether you are seeking legal counsel, advisory services, a real estate partnership, or a building health assessment — we welcome the introduction.
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