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Practice Areas
- Real Estate
- Corporate and Business Law
Experience
- Handled numerous merger and acquisition transactions, representing public and privately-held companies
- Counseled real estate clients on numerous housing bond restructurings and re-financings.
- Represented major lenders and borrowers on complicated multi-faceted real estate workout matters.
- Acted as arbitrator in several major complex case arbitrations for AAA.
- Counsel to CEOs of public companies on corporate governance issues.
- Counseled real estate clients on large multi-property Fannie Mae financings.
- Represented companies and investors in complicated venture capital transactions.
- Appointed as judicial referee in partition lawsuit involving extensive family real estate holdings. Successfully mediated the entire dispute.
- Served as expert witness regarding partnerships, real estate and attorney responsibility issues in various matters.
Education
- Columbia University School of Law, cum laude (1965)
- Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, undergraduate degree in American History and Literature (1962)
Professional Affiliations and Admissions
- Member of the San Diego County Bar Association
- Member of the California State Bar
- Martindale-Hubbell AV® Rated
- Admitted to practice law in New York in 1966 and in California in 1973
- Associated for six years with the New York City law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Served on the board of directors of Fairbanks Ranch Country Club
- Serves as membership chairman and a founding member of the board of governors of Business Counsel, Inc., a legal referral network of approximately 35 law firms in the United States, Great Britain and Canada
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