Experience

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  FUND MANAGEMENT ADVISORS, INC. (PAG REAL ESTATE)

  • President and Founder

    • 2006 - Present

    Provide legal and advisory services for real estate private equity funds and companies in connection with fund and investment vehicle formation, investor relations, reporting, compliance, and transactions. Primary focus has been working with senior management and the investment professionals of PAG Real Estate (previously Secured Capital Japan) to raise, operate, and invest more than a dozen real estate private equity funds each with $1-3 billion of investment capital as well as grow the organization through public offerings, strategic corporate investment relationships, merger, and tender offer transaction to take the company private.

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  SECURED CAPITAL CORP (CURRENTLY EASTDIL SECURED)

  • Managing Director and General Counsel

    • 1991 - 2006

    Responsible for legal, compliance and investor support to work with senior management and the real estate professional teams in growing the domestic real estate agency and broker-dealer business and offshore investment management business. Results included various corporate sale and public exit transactions and raising serveral billion dollars of investment capital for numerous separate account, joint venture and private equity fund structures.

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  INTERREDEC, INC

  • Savanah, GA and Los Angeles, CA

  • Executive VP & General Counsel

    • 1987 - 1991
    • Savanah, GA and Los Angeles, CA

    Responsible for Legal, Compliance & Transaction Management for all U.S. Operations of a Real Estate Development and Investment Management Company. Primary accomplishments included restructuring of corporate banking relationships, dispositions of non-real estate investments, and focus on fully developing and improving values of commercial real estate holdings as well as buying out investors to take 100% ownership of increased value of real estate holdings.

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  MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

  • Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • Attorney At Law

    • 1983 - 1987
    • Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

    Senior Associate in the Tax Department with Primary Focus on Real Estate Related Transactions Including REIT’s, Tax Exempt Bond Financing of Commercial Real Estate, and Bank Financing of Commercial Real Estate

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  IRELL & MANELLA LLP

  • Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • Attorney At Law

    • 1981 - 1983
    • Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

    Associate in the Real Estate Department Focused on Structuring and Documentation of Commercial Real Estate Transactions