Member

Representative Matters

• Representation of numerous lenders including banks and financial service companies in connection with workouts, prejudgment strategy and remedies, trustee's sales foreclosures, UCC remedies and enforcement. Including representation in matters with complex multi-state collateral.  
• Representation of title insurance companies, their insureds, escrow companies and escrow agents in connection with title insurance claims, negligence claims, priority claims, boundary disputes and foreclosure and trustee's sale proceedings.
• Multiple financing transactions, including multi-state collateralized transactions from $2,000,000 to $200,000,000 and the restructuring of existing financing arrangements.
• Acquisition, development, sale, and financing of vacant and improved real property, for residential, commercial and industrial use, including master planned communities, multi-family and condominium. retail and shopping centers, commercial office, warehouse and industrial and manufacturing facilities.
• Preparation, negotiation and review of commercial office, retail, shopping center, warehouse, industrial, ground leases, build-to-suit leases.
• Preparation, negotiation and review of construction documents for developers, contractors, subcontractors and other design professionals for commercial. retail, mixed use and industrial projects ranging from $5,000,000 to $500,000,000.

Professional Activities

• Admitted Arizona, 1976
• Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
• Member, State Bar of Arizona Real Property Section
• Member, American Bar Association
• Legislative Drafting Committee, Arizona Condominium Act
• Council and District Level, Boy Scouts of America
• Member, Maricopa County Bar Association
• Council of 100, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
• Member, Legislative Committee, Valley Partnership
• Member, Lambda Alpha International, Phoenix Chapter

Education

• Juris Doctor, cum laude, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, 1976
  • Editorial Staff, Arizona State Law Journal
• Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics, Northwestern University, 1973

Honors and Awards

• Recognized in the "Attorneys to Know" section of Arizona Commercial Real Estate's 2009-2010 edition of "Top People to Know in Commercial Real Estate"