INNOVATIVE LEGAL PROBLEM-SOLVING
- Extricated Client from expensive, 'inextricable' equipment lease at no cost by confronting Lessor with illegal independent contractor status
- Obtained 300% sales price over Fair Market Value for undeveloped land for client by securing admission from assemblage buyer of deferred cost of improvements
- Saved client in litigation $240,000 by creating successful legal strategy of mathematical model of Landlord's improper rental accountings strategy
- Designed & implemented Partnership "buy-in" with complete managing authority, but without any downpayment or majority ownership
- Saved destitute, suicide-prone woman her home that had already been foreclosed, and got loan restructured with deferred payments and substantial cash into Client's pocket
- Cleared chain of title for junior lienholder with mechanic's lien and secured property after being outbid by third party at sheriff sale
- Increased real property's value 35% by advising client how to extract admission against interest by ground landlord
- Organized tailor-made film production company to shield film producer from securities claims by film investors & draft collateral documents to help bring feature film to market
-
Drafted an agreement for client that not only protected its professional license from jeopardy but also produced a large unanticipated financial opportunity [by client] when the principal sought to circumvent client
ORGANIZATION, RESOURCEFULNESS AND RESOLVE
- Doubled derelict property's value in 3 years by managing redevelopment conversion project to an acclaimed historical landmark with 95% occupancy & office-retail use plus hotel overlay
- Handled multi-faceted sale [28 schedules & 14 collateral documents] at premium price for approx. $2 million multimedia business in SF Bay Area boasting Grammy nominations & Fortune 50 accounts
- Turned around failing real estate investment partnership by tightening operations, increasing net income & disposition of underperforming assets
- Secured below-market office lease for software firm with multiple options [term extension, space enlargement and discounted purchase] for flexibility
- Replaced prior attorney and obtained private sale of trust deed clouded by layers of debtor asset protection given as security for seller financing in business sale
- Coordinated transactions & documentation for real estate acquisitions and dispositions nationwide in private syndications
- Successfully arbitrated, negotiated and leased over 11,000,000 sq. ft. in 18 transactions over a period of eight months
-
Structured and negotiated a $6,000,000 HUD development project; City liked deal so much, guaranteed funds greater than request
WRITING SKILL; PERSUASION
- Wrote three briefs to the United States Supreme Court that obtained successful relief and earned a letter of commendation

