Practice Areas: Acquisition, development, disposition, financing and leasing of improved and unimproved real properties, individually and as portfolios, including shopping centers, office buildings, industrial parks, mixed use developments, master planned communities and state trust and Indian trust lands.

Bar Admissions: 1984, Arizona.

Professional Activities: Member, State Bar of Arizona; Member, International Council of Shopping Centers.

Education and Honors: Northwestern University, B.A. (Economics), 1980; Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 1984; Pedrick Scholar; Order of the Coif; Hornbook, Am Jur, Prentice Hall and Corpus Juris awards.

• Selected for The Best Lawyers in America (1995-2010) (Real Estate Law)
• Selected as Phoenix Real Estate Lawyer of the Year (2010) by The Best Lawyers in America
• Selected for The Legal 500 (2007-2010) (Real Estate Law)
• Selected for Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers (2003-2010) (First Tier, Real Estate Law)
• Selected as one of the top 50 Arizona Attorneys in Southwest Super Lawyers – 2007-2009

Significant Transactions: Development of the Scottsdale Pavilions, an open air power center developed on Indian Trust Land; development of Desert Ridge Marketplace, an open air power center and lifestyle and entertainment center developed on state trust land; development of Tempe Marketplace, an open air power center and lifestyle and entertainment center developed on a brownfields re-development site; acquisition of Century Plaza Hotel and Tower in Los Angeles, California; acquisition and subsequent disposition of 650 California Street, a high rise office building in San Francisco, California; development of the District at Tustin Legacy, an open air power center and lifestyle and entertainment center developed on the former Tustin Naval Air Station in Orange County, California; acquisition and subsequent disposition of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona; acquisition and subsequent disposition of Tower A and Tower B, Camelback Esplanade, Phoenix, Arizona; development of Esplanade Place, a high rise residential condominium at the Camelback Esplanade in Phoenix, Arizona; acquisition of vacant land at the Camelback Esplanade from the Resolution Trust Corporation and subsequent re-development; acquisition of GM proving grounds in Maricopa County, Arizona; negotiation of acquisition, development and construction financing for Sun City Summerlin in Clark County, Nevada; representation of Bank of America (regional headquarters lease), Phoenix, Arizona; representation of Del Webb Corporation (headquarters leases), Phoenix, Arizona; representation of Alliance Bank of Arizona (headquarters lease), Phoenix, Arizona; negotiation of air rights lease for outdoor advertising display Times Square, New York City; representation of Cabazon Band of Mission Indians in connection with the financing of the Colmac Bio-Mass Energy Plant in Coachella, California; development of Yuma Palms, an open air regional mall in Yuma, Arizona; acquisition, development and disposition of West Wing Mountain, Peoria, Arizona; and numerous portfolio acquisitions (loans, shopping centers, raw land, residential lots, office buildings, billboards, auto parts stores, drug stores, restaurants, bank branches and service stations).

Public Service/Community Affairs: Valley Partnership: legal counsel 1995-present, Member of Board of Directors 1998-2000.