In his over two-decade commercial real estate and finance practice, Michael Capaldi has guided financial organizations, institutional and entrepreneurial developers, property owners, and investors through complex asset acquisitions and dispositions, the highly-sensitive planning and entitlement stage of real property development, a variety of sophisticated equity and debt financings, commercial leasing and leasing strategies, and challenging workouts and restructurings. Highly valued by Michael's clients is his work as an entrepreneur and founder of a real estate development company, which has added to his legal expertise a practical business sense unique among even the most experienced attorneys.His clients include major home builders, office portfolio owners, land development companies, and some of the largest commercial and institutional property owners and operators in southern California.Michael is known nationally in politics and government. He has had a significant impact on public policy in Orange County, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C. He has appeared in national news reports, including in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Businessweek, and Politico. His own articles have been carried by National Review Online, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, and other print and online outlets. Michael speaks frequently about business, government, and politics in settings ranging from legislative bodies to university campuses. He has appeared numerous times on television on a variety of public policy programs.After many years of practice with Spach, Capaldi, and Waggaman, LLP, Michael and his partner, Madison Spach, are pleased to expand their practice under Frost Brown Todd LLP, an exceptional, national law firm of attorneys practicing in many disciplines at the highest level. They look forward to working alongside their long-time clients, and those to come, as they always have, on a strong foundation of professional excellence and trust.