Practice Areas
- Real Estate
- Finance, Lending and Banking
- Workout, Loan Restructuring and Bankruptcy
- Joint Venture Formation, Mergers and Acquisitions
- Property Tax appeals
- Condemnations
Representative Transactions
Representing lenders, developers and investors in all aspects of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, financings, development, joint venture formation, leasing and sales
Representing institutional owners of income producing real estate in the management, leasing and re-financing of their properties
Representing lenders and borrowers in the enforcement and restructuring of problem real estate loans
Representing owners and investors in closely held businesses with a wide variety of corporate matters and business deals
Publications
Comment, “The Derivative Use of Attorney’s Opinion Work Product in IRS Summons Enforcement Proceedings,” 65 Minnesota Law Review 488 (1981)
Frequent lecturer on real estate subjects for Minnesota Continuing Legal Education
Professional Organizations and Achievements
Selected for “Best Lawyers in America”
Minnesota “Super Lawyer”
Certified Real Property Law Specialist, Real Property Section of Minnesota State Bar Association
Qualified Neutral under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice
Member, Real Property Section of Minnesota and Hennepin County Bar Associations
Judicial Clerkship
Law Clerk, Chief Justice Douglas K. Amdahl, Supreme Court of Minnesota, 1982-83
Education
- J.D., University of Minnesota, cum laude, 1982 (Note and Comment Editor, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 66)
- B.A., Macalester College, magna cum laude, 1979 (Honors Program, Wall Street Journal Award)
Admissions
- State of Minnesota
- United States District Court, Minnesota
- United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
