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I represent and advise my clients on a variety of business and real estate transactional matters, and I advise clients on and implement simple and complex estate plans, with an emphasis on estate and succession planning for closely-held businesses. Some of my transactional experience includes the following:-Representing an oil and gas operator in the sale of oil and gas assets to a large oil producer;-Representing a farmer in the sale of over 800 acres of farmland, the proceeds of which were tax-deferred in a section 1031 exchange;-Representing the seller in a leveraged buyout of a professional employer organization by a private equity group;-Representing an owner in connection with the sale of agricultural business by a private equity group;-Representing the owner in connection with the development of a 15-acre shopping center in Bakersfield, California; and-Representing the owner in the lease of a world-class luxury retail building located in the Rodeo Drive shopping district in Beverly Hills, California;-Representing a taxpayer in connection with the gifting of farmland and other assets.