Attorney Profile

Lance S. Davidson, Esq.'s practice focuses on business and corporate, commercial and real estate law. His legal successes are testimony to his ability to provide superior and resourceful representation to business organizations, governmental agencies, and individuals.

Specific examples of  Mr. Davidson's expertise in handling, structuring or reviewing almost $3 billion of transactions, include a $430 million leveraged buy-out; an $18 million financial lease; a $30 million, 215-room hotel development; rehabilitation of a historic hotel into a retail-office-hotel complex; commercial contracts for software and multimedia firms; national multi-state syndications and numerous sales and financings. He has formed and helped manage numerous corporate, limited liability company and partnership entities. Finally, he has worked on numerous related matters, including property development, ground leases, banking, and tax law.

Mr. Davidson provides sophisticated, thorough results in counseling, transactions and litigation, e.g., acquisitions and sales; business planning, formation, syndication and management; real estate development and operations; commercial, corporate, and financial transactions; tax and regulatory research and employment and litigation management; trust and estate issues; and intellectual property matters.

Lance S. Davidson, besides being an attorney, has been Nationally Certified as a Commercial-Investment Real Estate Specialist (CCIM). He has also served on the economic research staffs at two Washington, D.C. think tanks: The Brookings Institution and the Institute for Defense Analyses. Accordingly, he is the rare attorney who, seeking business solutions, can understand the true financial consequences of his advice.

Mr. Davidson earned his A.B. in Economics from Stanford University and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law. He is licensed as an attorney in Arizona, California and Oregon, and as a real estate broker in Arizona and California. Mr. Davidson has published numerous articles in leading law and real estate scholarly journals, e.g., The American Law Institute, New York University; University of California's Hastings College of Law and the Commercial-Investment Real Estate Council. In his capacity as legal counsel with three national investment and development companies, Mr. Davidson was responsible for the firms' transactions, management, and asset development.

Mr. Davidson's mission is simple: to achieve his clients' goals while maximizing their legal position. His long-term relationships with clients attest to his absolute loyalty to them, and their appreciation for his professionalism.