• Real estate purchase/sale agreements, including multifamily, commercial and industrial properties.
• Retail, office and industrial leasing, representing both landlords and tenants.
• Real estate development and related agreements, including easements, lot line adjustments, tenancy-in-common agreements, boundary disputes and other development matters, especially for luxury homes and shopping centers.
• Real estate loans, promissory notes and deeds of trust.
• Purchase/sale of businesses – assets purchases and stock purchases.
• Formation and structuring of business and real estate ventures, including LLC operating agreements, partnership agreements, corporate documents and shareholder agreements.
• Evaluating start-up business investments for affluent investors, including legal and business due diligence, and drafting and negotiating investment agreements.

My role is to help you solve your problem or accomplish your goal, and to do it in the way that is best for you, with a minimum of headache and a minimum of risk.

My approach is (1) to understand your situation, your needs and your goals, (2) to help you understand and balance the pertinent legal and business issues, (3) to give you options on how to solve the problem or achieve your goal so we can agree on a plan of action, and then (4) to execute that plan, for you or with you, always adapting as the situation evolves. I try to avoid litigation, and I try to settle it if it has already begun. But sometimes litigation is the only option. If that is true in your situation, I will give you the names of several litigators who could represent you.

I am licensed in the state of California. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University, a Juris Doctor (law) degree from the University of California at Berkeley and also a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

I look forward to working with you. Schedule your free, initial consultation today.