Representative experience includes advising on the tax aspects of the following transactions:

• Advised Colony Capital, which led an investment of $1.2 billion in Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses.
• Advised Camden Properties, LLC and Camden Land Corporation in the sale of a 12-story, 207,400-square-foot property in Beverly Hills to Starpoint Properties for $193 million.
• Advised Sino-Ocean Group (“Sino-Ocean”), one of the largest real estate companies in China, in its $95 million acquisition of boutique hotel and members’ club Soho House in Chicago’s booming Fulton Market neighborhood.
• Advised Cando Partners and Wilshire-Canon Properties, LLC in the sale of a 146,300 square-foot office property in Beverly Hills to Douglas Emmett, Inc. for $143.6 million.
• Advised Burba Hotel Network, a global developer and organizer of conferences for the hotel and tourism investment community, in its collaboration with American Hotel & Lodging Association Educational Institute and sale of its hotel investment event portfolio to Northstar Travel Media.
• Advised Nyca Partners on the closing of its second venture capital fund, with more than $125 million in investor commitments.

• Frequent speaker on U.S. real estate and partnership tax issues
• Frequent speaker on U.S. and cross-border tax issues
• Former Adjunct Professor, Partnership Taxation at The University of Southern California Law School and University of San Diego
• Speaker, 2018 California Bar/Real Estate Section – Unpacking Joint Ventures
• Speaker, 2016 USC Tax Institute - Drafting Partnership and LLC Agreements - Critical Tax Considerations
• Speaker, 2013 USC Tax Institute – Limitations on the Use of Partnership Losses in Real Estate Transactions: Planning Opportunities
• Speaker, 2012 Mid-Winter ABA Tax Section -- Real Estate Funds: A Potpourri of Issues that Vex the Practical Practitioner
• Speaker 2010, Law Seminars International—Real Estate Joint Ventures and Funds–Tax Traps of Exiting Joint Ventures and Workouts of Joint Ventures

• Former Member of Advisory Forum, Stanford Center on the Legal Profession.
• Former co-chair of ABA Section of Taxation Committee on U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties Subcommittee on Portfolio Investments and Withholding Tax.
• Former chair of the Foreign Tax Section and Former chair of the Pass-Through Entities Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
• Member of the State Bar of California.