Eric specializes in real estate finance, acquisitions, dispositions, development, leasing, taxation, and workouts. He also represents clients in corporate acquisitions, mergers, and recapitalizations. His clients include national and regional banks, developers, financial services companies, including insurance and mortgage banking firms; REITs; foreign and U.S. investors; contractors; pension advisors; and private individuals and families.

In his 29 years of practice, Eric has played diverse roles in representing his clients. He served as counsel to the seller on a $468 million “UPREIT” transaction, which involved 17 different apartment projects in four western states. He also served as general counsel to a regional mortgage banking company and as outside counsel to a financial services company, directing real estate, finance, and tax workouts on a nationwide real estate portfolio of more than $4 billion. He also directed loan workouts for a major regional development company on 24 different deals, with national, institutional and regional lenders, over a six year period from 1992-1998.

Eric has had significant experience directing and assisting the purchase and sale of real estate loans. As in-house counsel and later in private practice, he has devised and implemented action plans for the sale of real estate loan portfolios and individual loans, for several regional banks and thrifts. Eric formerly represented the California State Insurance Commissioner in the liquidation of the real estate loan portfolios, as receiver for failed insurance companies. He currently counsels private clients and institutions in the acquisition of individual notes and loan portfolios throughout the western United States.

Eric serves as outside counsel for several national banks, for loan originations as well as workouts and foreclosures. He regularly handles real estate loan workouts of all sizes and levels of complexity, from single-asset loans to entire debt portfolios of national real estate companies.

Eric was admitted to the California State Bar in 1980 and is a member of the California Bar Association, the Mortgage Bankers Association, and NAIOP. He has served as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business since 1987. Eric has also lectured extensively and contributed to Miller & Starr, Current Law of California Real Estate, and The Real Estate Tax Digest. He is AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell.

Eric received his B.A. in History from Brandeis University, graduating Magna Cum Laude with high honors in History, and his J.D. from Hastings College of the Law. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Lambda Alpha International.

Eric lives in San Francisco with his wife, Gayle, and their son, Daniel. He enjoys music, international travel, and serves on the boards of several local charities. In his spare time, Eric can be found on the golf course, or at a Giants game, holding out hope for a winning season.