Corie A. Edwards Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

• Prepared and negotiated purchase agreement, grant documents and other transactional materials for acquisition of San Jose, California, motel property for supportive housing funded by Project Homekey and City grants, slated for future development into mixed-use project that will include supportive, permanently affordable, and market-rate housing. • Conducted due diligence and prepared purchase documentation for acquisition of San Jose, California, property burdened by Development Agreement and $24,000,000 Proposition 1C Infill Infrastructure Grant.• Evaluated subdivision and parcel maps and other historical documents to identify access rights and emergency vehicle access over private roadway in unincorporated San Mateo County.• Negotiated utility relocation, pursued title insurance claim, and managed associated litigation, following discovery of utilities crossing development site during construction of San Francisco housing project.• Completed negotiation of commercial development agreements for sites in Daly City, California.• Prepared acquisition documents for development site in Oakland, California, including terms for physically moving two existing residential structures to adjacent site.• Evaluated and negotiated $60,000,000 financing and loan modification documents for Oakland, California multi-family housing projects.• Negotiated title insurance coverage for various residential and commercial property acquisitions, including selection of policies, evaluation of surveys, removal of exceptions to coverage, and extended coverage endorsements.• Negotiated construction contracts for multiple residential and commercial projects, including $25,000,000 residential project, wharf construction project, and tenant improvement projects.• Represented investment fund in Monterey County, California in pursuit of a judicial foreclosure action and the defense of a companion mortgage fraud claim.• Defended commercial property owner in $4.2M mechanic’s lien claim.

San Ramon, California, Us

San Ramon, California, Us

The charge of the San Ramon Planning Commission is to:• Develop such specific plans as may be necessary or desirable. It may or, if so directed by the City Council, prepare specific plans based on the General Plan and drafts of such regulations, programs and legislation as may in its judgment be required for the systematic execution of the general plan, it may recommend such plans and measures to the City Council for adoption.• Investigate and make recommendations to the City Council upon reasonable and practical means for putting into effect the General Plan or part thereof, in order that it will serve as a pattern and guide for the orderly physical growth and development of the City and as a basis for the efficient expenditure of its funds relating to the subjects of the General Plan; the measures recommended may include plans, regulations, financial report and capital budgets.• Endeavor to promote public interest in and understanding of the General Plan and regulations relating to it.• Consult with and advise public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational, professional and other organizations and citizens generally within relation to carrying out the General Plan.

San Ramon, California, Us

The purpose of the Housing Advisory Committee is to advise the Planning Commission through the staff regarding policies that will ensure that housing programs are implemented and to create and retain housing in the City of San Ramon affordable to households with incomes below 120% of the area median.I completed my first 2-year term with the Housing Advisory Committee in 2017, and was re-appointed to the position in September of 2017. I assumed the role of Chair until 2021, when I was appointed to the Planning Commission.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Developed transactional business from, e.g., mixed-use developers, planning consultant, landscape architect.• Managed litigation for and relationship with international real estate investor with property in San Francisco.• Primary client contact, with responsibility for identifying goals and objectives, completing fact investigation, and preparing documents necessary to further transactional and litigation objectives.• Prepared law & motion and presented oral argument before San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Monterey County Superior Courts, the First District Court of Appeal, the Northern District of California, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.

• Trial counsel for family-owned business in labor board proceedings in Alameda County Superior Court.• Prepared appellate briefs and presented oral argument at First District Court of Appeal.• Supported lead trial counsel, by preparing trial briefing, in limine motions, direct and cross-examination, and post-trial briefing.• Negotiated and resolved insurance coverage disputes with title insurance carriers, commercial general liability insurers, and construction sureties.• Represented private investment funds and affiliated mortgage broker in claims based on financial abuse of an elder, judicial foreclosure actions, breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits, and claim regarding sale of securities in violation of California and Federal regulations. • Counsel to real estate brokerage in numerous disputes regarding the sale of real property.

Oakland, Ca, Us

• Second-chair trial counsel and supporting attorney to trial teams representing commercial and residential developers.• Senior-level attorney responsible for managing litigation, developing strategies, conducting discovery, as well as handling settlement negotiation and mediation.• Responsible for supervising junior level attorneys as they developed their real estate litigation practice.

• Supporting member of national trial team in successful defense of multi-national medical device manufacturer.• Prepared and defended numerous percipient witnesses in connection with depositions in disability discrimination claim against Fortune 500 petrochemical company.

Juris Doctorate

Ba, Philosophy-Law & Society, Political Science