Practice emphasizes real estate law. Work with a variety of real estate clients, including real estate investments trusts, financial institutions, partnerships, corporations and limited liability companies. Handle properties including high-rise commercial office buildings, regional shopping centers, mixed-use office buildings and industrial facilities.

Leasing
Represent landlords in negotiation of several hundred lease documents for office and industrial leases of buildings throughout the Western United States ranging from under 10,000 square feet to 92,000 square feet.

Represent major national healthcare tenant and national college test preparation company in leases of up to 80,000 square feet in markets throughout the United States.

Created lease forms for retail, retail conominium, office and mixed-use multi-use tenant properties.

Drafted template leases for strategic tenants of major national landlord; tenants included national insurance companies, accounting firms, and business consultants.

Negotiated dozens of communication license agreements for major national landlord with several national telecommunication companies in buildings throughout the country.

Acquisitions and Dispositions
Represented real estate investment trusts, insurance companies, retirement funds, local developers, and other real estate investment entities in purchases and sales of office parks, urban multi-use buildings and retail shopping centers, including negotiating purchase agreements, analyzing due diligence materials and drafting closing documents.

Represented well-known winery in combined inter-company purchase and 1031 Exchange valued at over $16.8 million for various vineyard properties located in California.

Represented buyer in $14.5 million exercise of option to purchase six properties in various California counties.

Represented national waste management company in five separate corporate “swaps” to acquire dozens of parcels of real estate in several states over an 18-month period.

Related Real Estate Documents
Drafted property management agreements for management of office complexes.

Reviewed and amended Conditions, Covenants, and Restrictions (CC&R's) for office projects and Reciprocal Easement Agreements (REA's) for retail and medical centers.

MEMBERSHIPS

State Bar of California, Real Property Section, Member

Sacramento County Bar Association, Real Property Section, Member

Association of Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Board of Directors, Special Director

Beyers Lane Community Service District, Board of Directors, Past President

Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), Member

Commercial Lease Law Insider Board of Advisors, Member

EDUCATION

University of California, Davis School of Law (J.D., 1993)
Brown University (A.B., 1985)

PUBLICATIONS

Commercial Lease Law Insider , Fall 2007 – present, Board of Advisors

ACRE Newsletter, Legal Tips Columnist, Fall 2006 - present

Continuing Education of the Bar, California, Retail Leasing, 2007, Contributor

26 UC Davis Law Review 1005 “Shattered Plans: Amending A General Plan Through The Initiative Process,” 1993, Comment

UC Davis Law Review, Former Research Editor

PRESENTATIONS

ACRE, "Make More Money" Educational Series, "Commercial Lease Issues for Brokers," September 2008, Presenter

International Facilities Managers Association, "Lease Issues for Facilities Managers," September 2008, Presenter

“Deal Approval Sheets,” seminar for leasing agents and property managers, Portland and Seattle, 2002, Presenter

Equity Office Properties Denver Regional Conference, on the use of work letters, 2000, Presenter

charitable

Sierra Adoption Services, Board Development Committe, Member