Representative Experience
Counsel clients regarding the management, operation, development, acquisition and leasing of conventional and “distressed” real estate (including restaurant and retail businesses)

Counsel clients concerning investment and limited partnerships, as well as condominium and other mutual benefit housing associations

Represent banks and borrowers in real estate secured loan transactions

Provide general counseling to both start-up and established business entities whose primary focus in the ownership, management, development and operation of investment real property

Prior Experience
Partner, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, Portland, Oregon

Vice President and General Counsel, Pacific Realty Associates, LP and Property Development Associates, Portland, Oregon

Senior Associate, Donahue, Gallagher, Thomas and Woods, Oakland, California

Representative Transactions
Represent buyer in the negotiation and documentation of a 200,000 square foot office building in Montvale, New Jersey, for a purchase price of $13,625,000.00.

Represent tenant in the negotiation and documentation of a 35,000 square foot long-term industrial space in San Francisco, California, with a leasehold value of $1.8M over the initial term.

Represent tenant in the negotiation and documentation of a 27,500 square foot “build-to-suit” retail lease in Madison, Wisconsin, with a leasehold value of approximately $5M over the initial term.

Represent landlord and tenants in the negotiation and documentation of retail leases at Gresham Square, Bridgeport Village, Eastport Plaza, The Point at Bridgeport, and Bridgeport Place Shopping Centers.

Represent tenant in the negotiation and documentation of a 100,000-plus square foot industrial/office lease.

Represent tenant in the negotiation and documentation of a 22,000 and a 14,000 square foot medical office lease with a value of +/- $1M over the initial term.

Represent landlord in the negotiation and documentation of a 31,000 square foot office lease for corporate headquarters of a local utility with a value of +/- $4M over the initial term.

Presentations
“Real Estate Transactions: Simple Becomes Solid,” National Business Institute Seminar, November 2006

“Retail Leasing,” Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Oregon State Bar, Real Estate Section Retreat, August 2006

“Broker Duties in Sale Transactions,” Commercial Association of Realtors Education Seminar, March 2006

“Listing Agreements and Letters of Intent,” Commercial Real Estate Women Seminar, September 2005

“Standard Documentation in Real Estate Closings,” Lorman Seminar, February 2005

“Top Ten Reasons Why Deals Don’t Close,” Commercial Association of Realtors Education Seminar, August 2004

Publications
Co-author, "Legislature sends builders back to school," The Daily Journal of Commerce, August 23, 2007

Co-author, "Legislative changes sweep up chimney workers, more," The Daily Journal of Commerce, August 24, 2007

Co-author, “Real property letters of intent: Are they really nonbinding?,” Portland Business Journal, October 2006

Co-author, "Tenant-in-common exchanges pose risks," Portland Business Journal, April 1, 2005

Co-author, “Shopping Centers Feel the Heat During the Energy Crisis,” Shopping Center Business, June 2001

Author, “Taking the Stress out of Distressed Property,” Real Estate Issues, Winter 2000/2001

Author, “Negotiating Leases,” Retail Issues Section, September 2000

Memberships and Activities
Oregon State Bar Association, Active License

Washington State Bar Association, Active License

California State Bar Association, Active License

Nevada State Bar Association, Active License

American Bar Association, Member

Multnomah Bar Association, Member

International Council of Shopping Centers, Member

Commercial Association of Realtors Oregon/Southwest Washington, General Counsel and Director; “Member of the Year,” 2005

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Law & Politics, 2006

Listed in Chambers USA; American Leading Lawyers for Business, 2007

Oregon State Bar, House of Delegates, Current Delegate

Oregon State Bar, Quality of Life Committee 2003-2005 (past Chair)

Artists Repertory Theater, Vice Chair and Director

Education
J.D., Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California, 1977

B.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1974