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• Specializations: contracts, commercial and corporate business, real estate, landlord-tenant (commercial and residential), and private lending• Engages in the acquisition, development, financing, leasing, sale and management of office, industrial, retail and mixed-use properties, incl. negotiating/drafting construction contracts, leases (office, industrial, residential, ground and retail), purchase and sale agreements, CC&Rs, development agreements, acquisition, development, construction and permanent financing and all other types of lending transactions• Represents property owners in regards to all matters relating to the ownership and management of commercial real estate, in addition to representing both lenders/borrowers in a variety of finance transactions (loan originations - workouts of troubled loans)• Assists landlords, property/asset managers and other clients in regards to resolving landlord-tenant disputes, FED (eviction) actions, rent collections, and the enforcement of creditors’ rights in bankruptcy, in addition to other types of commercial and real estate litigation• Provides counseling as well as services in forming limited liability companies, partnerships and corporations, drafting operating agreements, partnership agreements, joint venture agreements, shareholders agreements and buy/sell agreements, employment agreements, non-competition and confidentiality agreements, negotiating and documenting all other forms of business transactions• Managed document review projects, discovery motions; experienced in taking and defending depositions, legal research, preparing legal memoranda: Complaints, Answers, demand letters, AZ Corporation Commission filings, corporate dissolutions, and liquor licensing

Associate Attorney • Specializations: contracts, corporate business, real estate, landlord/tenant, private lending/financing• Practice involves representing owners of real property in purchase and sale transactions, the leasing of retail, office and industrial space, and all other matters relating to the ownership and management of commercial real estate, in addition to representing both lenders and borrowers in a variety of real estate finance transactions, including loan originations and workouts of troubled loans.• Proficient in litigation (state/federal) and transactional business (including advising various institutional developers, owners and managers of office, industrial, retail and mixed-use properties, as well as production home builders and land developers, in addition to residential property matters)• Engaged in the acquisition, development, financing, leasing, management and sale of office, industrial, retail and mixed-use properties, including negotiating and drafting construction contracts, office, industrial and retail leases, purchase and sale agreements, ground leases, reciprocal easement agreements, covenants, conditions and restrictions and development agreements, acquisition, development, construction and permanent financing and all other types of lending transactions (including issuing legal opinion letters for borrowers in secured real estate loan transactions)• Provides general business counseling and transactional services such as forming limited liability companies, partnerships and corporations, drafting operating agreements, partnership agreements, joint venture agreements, shareholders agreements and buy/sell agreements, handling business and asset purchases and sales, preparing employment agreements, non-competition agreements and confidentiality agreements, negotiating and documenting all other forms of business transactions

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law

Bachelor’S Degree, Journalism (Broadcast And Written), Communication, And Related Programs

High School