The Partners Jerry A. Brown , Jr. Jerry A. Brown, Jr. is a real estate, business transactions and entertainment attorney. Mr. Brown has significant experience in the acquisition, financing and asset management of varied real estate properties including apartments, retail centers, industrial complexes and other income producing properties. Mr. Brown's entertainment experience includes all aspects of television and motion picture production, acquisition, sales and distribution including negotiating and drafting acquisition financing, production and co-production agreements, talent and writing contracts, as well as foreign and domestic distribution agreements.
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Stephen B. Fainsbert is the senior and founding partner of the Firm and has been engaged in the private practice of law for forty years,specializing in real estate transactions. Mr. Fainsbert's practice encompasses the representation of clients in connection with the purchase and sale of residential and commercial property, including office buildings, apartment buildings, warehouses, retail buildings, single family residences and vacant land; negotiation and drafting of residential and commercial leases; structuring of real property acquisitions; real estate financing issues including the negotiation and documentation of loans secured by real property; resolution of easement disputes; avoidance of reassessment upon transfers of property; and title issues. He is a leading authority on all aspects of tax deferred real property exchanges under section 1033 of the Internal Revenue Code, including the structuring and implementation of multi-party deferred exchanges. In addition to his experience in transactional matters, Mr. Fainsbert has developed significant expertise in connection with the resolution of commission disputes on behalf of brokers and their clients as well as the resolution of escrow disputes for escrow companies and their customers. Mr. Fainsbert works closely with the Firm's litigation department on all disputes involving real estate and has frequently acted as an expert witness in real estate litigation matters. He has been designated one of Southern California's "Real Estate Super Lawyers" in both Los Angeles Magazine and Southern California Super Lawyers magazine every year since 2004 and is a frequent lecturer and author of numerous publications on real estate matters.
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John A. Mase is a corporate and real estate transactions attorney with an emphasis in taxation. Mr. Mase is certified by the State Bar of California as a Specialist in Taxation Law and has passed the CPA examination. Mr. Mase lectures regularly on a variety of business and taxation issues and has taught classes at University of Southern California, Golden Gate University and Boston University. He is particularly experienced in negotiating, documenting and closing complex real estate, corporate and partnership transactions. Mr. Mase has been a special tax consultant to NBC Channel 4 News.
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Lawrence A. Snyder practices in the area of business transactions, including real estate and taxation law. He is certified by the State Bar of California as a Specialist in Taxation Law, and is a California Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Snyder's has extensive experience in the acquisition, disposition, development, financing and leasing of real property, including apartment complexes, office buildings, shopping centers, restaurants, retail projects and industrial complexes. In addition, he represents clients in mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions of and for privately held corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. Mr. Snyder also practices in the area of strategic planning for and implementation of complex tax-deferred exchanges under Internal Revenue Code section 1031. Mr Snyder has been designated one of Southern California's "Real Estate Super Lawyers" in Los Angeles Magazine for 2006 and 2007.
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David S. White is a senior civil litigation partner, specializing in litigation in state and federal courts involving all aspects of real estate law, business disputes, intellectual property, defense of employers and alternative dispute resolution including mediation and arbitration. Areas of real estate law in which Mr. White has actively litigated include: adverse possession, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, accretion and “wharfing out,” lateral and subjacent support, landslides, earthquake insurance claims, brokers’ and salesperson’ liabilities and duties, easements, encroachment, CC&R disputes, access, commercial leasehold disputes including landlord/tenant, fraud, constructive fraud, disclosure and non-disclosure issues and duties, fiduciary duties of general partners, agents and brokers, title insurance claims, trespass, oil and gas (including stripper wells, unitization, slant drilling, and oil price regulation), disaster recovery (from riots, fires, floods, landslides, and earthquakes), mold liability and remediation, homeowner association and condominium disputes, destruction to growing plants and trees, broker and salesperson disciplinary matters before California DRE, nuisance, zoning, land use, agricultural use, inverse condemnation and eminent domain, development (including slope density issues in the Santa Monica Mountains), lender liability, subdivisions, toxics, and real estate finance and foreclosures. Mr. White is a licensed California real estate broker, teaches continuing education courses for real estate brokers and also serves as an expert witness on brokers' duties and liabilities. He works closely with the Firm's real estate department on litigation matters and avoidance of litigation.
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Richard E. Wirick practices in the areas of complex insurance coverage and reinsurance disputes, general business litigation and intellectual property. He represents both insurers and policyholders in coverage litigation especially in the areas of environmental contamination, weather related disasters, toxic torts, health care, partnership dissolution, newspaper and magazine publications, banking and franchising. He is on the editorial boards of various legal and non-legal publications and is a frequent contributor to the Journal of Insurance Coverage, the National Law Journal, the Business Trial Lawyer and the L.A. Daily Journal.
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