Cases
Experience: Real Estate: Served as seller's counsel in connection with the cross-border sale of a portfolio of distressed hospitals
hospital properties in Southern California.
Assisted a large health care system in connection with the acquisition of a fully licensed, community-based, health center to provide affordable, primary medical care in Orange County, California.
Assisted a large health care system in connection with the acquisition of a surgery center
medical office building on its hospital campus
requiring renegotiation of its reciprocal easement
parking arrangements in connection with its related facilities.
Assisted a large health care system with the development of a leading on-site wellness center program, including leasing, subleasing
coordination of related regulator matters.
Assisted a large California health care system in connection with the leasing of over one million square feet of hospital, medical office building
related healthcare space.
Assisted a large health care system in connection with strategic acquisition of hospital adjacent assemblage for further hospital development.
Seller's counsel in connection with the disposition of a large airport adjacent hotel property.
Represented an investor-owned utility in connection with the acquisition of environmentally sensitive l
for the development of a substation
in connection with the sale of surplus property in connection with a significant retail development.
Represented a large institutional property manager in dozens of leasing matters, including successfully negotiating a build-to-suit lease with a publicly traded biotech company for an approximately 320,000-square-foot industrial building in California.
Negotiated acquisition of replacement rights-of-way from the State of California
a redevelopment agency of the City of Los Angeles
a multi-user access road Master Easement
street dedications
various infrastructure easements
a post-closing cooperation agreement. Negotiated with the end users of the access road the terms of their easements to satisfy replacement property right requirements. Structured transactions to comply in connection with the California Surplus L
Statute. Prepared forms of purchase agreements for bulk sales of real property, together with forms of bidders' instructions, disclaimers, deeds, bidders' certificates
addenda for local professionals. Prepared reservation of rights letter forms for use by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) officers in connection with defaulted loans providing for partial re-conveyances, acceptance of payment or partial payment
provision for advances.
Real Estate Finance: Served as borrower's counsel in connection with over $250,000,000 of financing
refinancing of prop-co
op-co loans for the acquisition, construction, development
operation of behavioral health
chemical dependency facilities in California, Arizona, Illinois
Texas.
Served as borrower's counsel in connection with over $1,000,000,000 of real estate secured
mezzanine financings.
Served as lender's counsel in connection with over $103,000,000 financing for the acquisition
strategic further development of a multi-property medical office building portfolio.
Advised the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in connection with the securitization of mortgage loans
the re-securitization of interests in securitizations acquired from failed banks.
Served as counsel to the FDIC in connection with its first structured loan sale targeted at small investors.
Assisted a large health care system in connection with the syndication of various medical office building projects.
Public Finance: Served Los Angeles World Airports as disclosure counsel
co-bond counsel in over $3 billion of bonds issued to finance capital projects, including construction of various elements of the Bradley West Terminal Project
construction of the Central Utility Plant Project.
Assisted California Department of Veterans Affairs (Cal Vets) in developing its credit
served as an integral part of Cal Vet's financing team for the creation
successful execution a new 'double barreled' State of California General Obligation/Cal Vets credit.
Developed a creative financing structure for a high speed rail borrower wherein the borrower's joint venture guarantors also provide debt service reserve fund sureties, which were not otherwise available at reasonable rates, in support of the loan. The adoption of this structure permitted a stalled
otherwise economically unviable key component of the client's financing program to proceed.
Served as part of the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles' financing team in connection with its highly publicized
successful formal tender solicitation transaction. This transaction received Bond Buyer Deal of the Year consideration.
Advised on 11 bond series for the San Francisco Airport Commission in excess of $1.1 billion, including six variable rate series, Build American Bonds,
a successful tender transaction.
Served in a bond counsel role, as underwriters' counsel
disclosure counsel in connection with over $20 billion State of California new money general obligation bonds
general obligation refunding bonds. Served as disclosure counsel
underwriters' counsel in connection with over $500 million State Public Works Board lease revenue bonds, which benefited, among others, the Department of General Services, Department of Education, Department of Developmental Services,
the Trustees of the California State University.
Represented a national bank in connection with the replacement of a letter of credit securing
providing liquidity for their borrower's payments on industrial development bonds
re-collateralization of the credit facility
additional loans made under this lending relationship.
Served in a bond counsel role in connection with the competitive issuance of over $700 million of Water Revenue Bonds by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) issued to finance, among other things, a portion of the design, acquisition,
construction of various capital projects in furtherance of SFPUC's Water System Improvement Program.
Served as bank counsel in connection with a loan to the Broad Beach Geological Hazard Abatement District for a project to repair Broad Beach located in Malibu, CA.
