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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ALLEN
MATKINS PROMOTES SEVEN TO PARTNERSHIP
Los
Angeles, CA — April 16, 2007
Allen Matkins
Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, a leading California business
and real estate law firm, announces its 2007 partners. Located in
the firm's Los Angeles office are Matt Ertman (Corporate), Chris
Safarian (Real Estate), and Frank Scollan (Litigation); in the Century
City office are Kyle Hoshide (Real Estate) and Delmar Nehrenberg
(Real Estate); in the Orange County office are Greg Clark (Real
Estate), and Brad Nielsen (Real Estate).
These elections raise the total number of partners at Allen Matkins
to 125, effective July 1, 2007. The firm currently has approximately
230 attorneys practicing in its six California offices. “This
is an incredibly talented group of attorneys and each of them exemplify
the excellence and high standards which reflect our firm."
said Brian Leck, the firm's Managing Partner.
LOS
ANGELES
Matthew J. Ertman (Corporate). Matthew, a corporate
and securities attorney in the firm's Los Angeles and San Francisco
offices, represents companies in a broad variety of industries,
including telecommunications, medical products, online mortgage
and payment facilitators, real estate, industrial manufacturing,
laser, photonics, and fiber optics. He has extensive experience
in representing public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions
and corporate finance transactions, including public and private
securities offerings of equity and debt, venture capital investments,
initial and secondary public offerings, and asset-based lending
and borrowing. Matthew also advises public companies in the filing
of current, quarterly, and annual reports with the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, compliance
with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other corporate governance
regulations, qualification and continued listing on national stock
exchanges, and on other general corporate matters.
Matthew received his J.D. from Loyola Law School Los Angeles in
1999 and his B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Redlands
in 1996.
Chris Safarian (Real Estate). Chris Safarian is
in the Real Estate Department of the firm's Los Angeles office,
and his practice focuses on real estate finance and development.
Mr. Safarian has represented all types of institutional lenders,
investors, and developers in commercial real estate transactions
throughout the United States. He has structured and documented CMBS
loans, participating loans, loans involving guarantees, letters
of credit, environmental indemnities, mixed-collateral and multi-state
collateral, as well as numerous transactions for the acquisition
and/or development of real estate projects.
Mr. Safarian received his J.D. from the University of California
at Los Angeles - School of Law and his B.A. from the University
of California at Los Angeles, magna cum laude.
Francis Scollan (Litigation). Frank Scollan is
in our Los Angeles office and his practice centers on real estate
litigation, business disputes, CEQA litigation, construction defect
cases and land subsidence matters. Frank has represented numerous
developers, from individuals to national corporations, in disputes
involving CEQA, government approvals, partnership and business disputes,
construction matters, environmental issues and related real estate
issues including purchase and sales disputes. He has brought and
defended a wide variety of writ of mandate proceedings, including
CEQA actions. Frank has represented homeowners and developers in
cases involving land subsidence, and published an article on recovering
landslide damages under homeowners’ policies. Frank has also
represented federal equity receivers appointed in SEC actions to
recover assets for defrauded investors. Frank has extensive trial
experience, including a five week trial for a national developer
to recover government fees.
Frank received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University
of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from the University of California
at Berkeley.
CENTURY CITY
Kyle Hoshide (Real Estate). Kyle is a member of
the firm's Century City real estate group. His primary practice
includes the representation of institutional investors, owners and
developers in commercial office, retail and industrial leasing transactions,
acquisition, disposition and development transactions and other
property ownership/management-related matters. Kyle's practice also
includes the representation of owners and developers in connection
with land use, construction, financing, general corporate and employment
matters. Kyle currently serves as Chair of the Commercial Leasing
Subsection (South) of the California State Bar Real Property Section.
He received his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. from Loyola
Law School, where he was an editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles
Law Review. He also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable
Alex Kozinski in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit.
Delmar Nehrenberg (Real Estate). Delmar is in our
Century City office, where he practices real estate law with an
emphasis on major construction and development, leasing, and purchase
and sale transactions. His experience includes representing a wide
range of clients, including owners, developers, contractors, landlords,
tenants, sellers, buyers, and other business enterprises. In his
work for such clients, Delmar is responsible for the preparation
and negotiation of all types of development, construction, design,
acquisition and sale documents and agreements in a broad range of
situations. He works with valued institutional clients in all aspects
of major projects in which they are involved, and regularly gives
seminars to builders, landlords, and developers on a variety of
legal issues impacting their business activities.
He received his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles
and his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego.
ORANGE COUNTY
Greg Clark (Real Estate). Greg is in our Orange
County office and his practice concentrates on the financing, development
and construction, acquisition, disposition and leasing of various
types of real estate assets. His experience includes representing
a wide range of clients, including (i) lenders in connection with
various loans (construction, permanent, bridge and mezzanine), (ii)
buyers and sellers in the acquisition, disposition and financing
various real property , (iii) landlords and tenants in the drafting
and negotiation of complex retail, industrial and office leases
and (iv) owners, contractors and consultants in the drafting and
negotiation of Construction Contracts, Architect Agreements, Engineer
Contracts, Soil Supply Contracts and other professional service
agreements. In his work for such clients, Greg has also been responsible
for the preparation and negotiation complex equipment lease and
sublease agreements, easement agreements, indemnity agreements,
CC&Rs (both traditional and industrial/office condominium),
reciprocal easement agreements, subordination, nondisturbance and
attornment agreements, telecommunications access agreements, development
agreements, and broker representation, listing and commission agreements.
Greg also has extensive experience in complex title and survey review.
Greg received
his J.D. from the University of California, Boalt Hall School of
the Law in 1999 and received his B.S., magna cum laude, from Menlo
College in 1991 . He and served as an Associate Editor for the Berkeley
Journal of International Law.
Brad Nielsen (Real Estate). Brad Nielsen is in
the firm's Orange County office and his practice involves all aspects
of real estate transactions, including primarily the preparation
and negotiation of primary and ancillary agreements related to the
acquisition, disposition and leasing of office, industrial and retail
properties and the development of commercial and residential projects.
For example, Brad currently represents numerous landlords (including
pension funds and pension fund advisors) in the leasing of (i) over
10,000,000 square feet of office space in California and Arizona,
(ii) over 1,000,000 square feet of retail space in Southern California,
and (iii) over 7,000,000 square feet of industrial space in both
Northern and Southern California and Tijuana, Mexico. Brad also
recently represented a developer client in the negotiation of 15
separate and complex "build-to-suit for sale" transactions
involving over 5,000,000 square feet of industrial space in Southern
California.
Brad is actively involved on (i) the Executive Committee of the
Urban Land Institute's Orange County Chapter, and (ii) the Legislative
Action Committee of the Southern California Chapter of the National
Association of Industrial and Office Properties, and is a member
of the American Bar Association, the United States District Court
(Central District of California), the State Bar of California and
the Orange County Bar Association.
Brad received his J.D. from Loyola Law School in 1999 (where he
was a member of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review) and his B.A.
from the University of California, Irvine in 1995.
ABOUT ALLEN MATKINS
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, founded in 1977,
is a California law firm with approximately 230 attorneys practicing
out of six strategically located offices in Orange County, Los Angeles,
Century City, Del Mar Heights, San Diego and San Francisco. The
firm's broad based areas of focus include corporate, real estate,
construction, real estate finance, business litigation, taxation,
land use, environmental, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, and employment
and labor law.
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