With a background in commercial real estate brokerage, lending, and investment property transactions, this expert witness has over 40 years of experience, including more than 30 years in an expert capacity involving consultation, deposition, and courtroom testimony. Their work focuses on brokerage practices, private money loans, and commercial real estate transactions, with experience related to standard-of-care issues within real estate and mortgage banking activities. Their educational background includes studies in real estate and economics.

Their professional experience encompasses multiple areas of commercial real estate and finance. Core areas include brokerage and leasing of office, retail, and industrial properties, including leasing or supervising leasing of more than two million square feet and transactions exceeding one billion dollars. Their work in mortgage banking and real estate lending includes loan underwriting, credit analysis, loan documentation, and investment property lending, with involvement in more than 1,500 mortgage loans with significant aggregate value. Additional areas of work include customary commissions, office building valuation, and commercial real estate transactions, including leases and brokerage activities across commercial and industrial properties.

Their experience also includes property management and development activities, including supervision of more than one million square feet of commercial space and development of office buildings. In legal matters, their work addresses brokerage, lending practices, and loan underwriting in matters involving commercial loans, private money loans, and investment property transactions. This expert has been retained for consulting, valuation, research, and expert testimony by corporations, insurance companies, financial institutions, and law firms. Professional involvement includes participation with the California Mortgage Association, as well as affiliations with the Building Owners and Managers Association and the International Council of Shopping Centers. These activities reflect involvement in industry practices related to commercial real estate and lending.