Builder, Leader, and Outside Attorney and Counselor to Whole Foods Market from 1992 to 2023.Serving in key strategic and legal counsel roles in Whole Foods Market’s real estate expansion for 30 years, supporting its sustained growth from 25 stores in the US to over 500 stores globally.Leading the real estate negotiations in all transactions throughout the United State and Canada, including complex, multiuse, multiparty deal structures from Manhattan to San Francisco.Providing real estate related strategic and legal support through numerous successful acquisitions (e.g., Wild Oats) and ultimately Whole Foods Market’s 2018 acquisition by Amazon. Creating solutions to difficult obstacles, and synthesizing multifaceted transactional issues into direct, clean business decisions.Building constructive relationships with Whole Foods Market Executives, Whole Foods Market Operations and Construction Leadership and with real estate developers and brokers.Leading, selecting and managing real estate counsel.Honored as a “Global All Star” at Whole Foods Market, as outside counsel.

Providing legal counsel in all facets of commercial real transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, leasing and mortgage lending.