Tony has been a real estate lawyer for over 30 years. His practice has emphasized the acquisition and disposition of hotels, large commercial retail, multi-family and mixed-use projects, construction and permanent lending, complex participating and convertible mortgage transactions, leasing, real estate joint ventures, partnerships and limited liability companies, real estate secured credit enhancement for tax exempt bonds, bulk loan portfolio purchases and sales, project finance, and workouts. His clients have included developers, major real estate investment trusts, money-center and foreign banks, life insurance companies, pension funds, savings and loan associations, offshore-based corporate investors and residential mortgage banking firms.

Early in his career, Tony was a partner at Morrison & Foerster. In 1985, he left MoFo and acquired a controlling interest in and served as President and Chief Operating Officer of a small mortgage banking firm headquartered in the East Bay, which he grew into a large full-service mortgage company which originated, closed and serviced over $750 million annually in FHA, VA and conventional single-family home loans through a statewide network of 22 offices with over 500 employees. After selling his interest in the mortgage company, Tony was a partner for 10 years with Coudert Brothers, a large New York-based international law firm. Tony comes to us from MBV Law LLP, and prior to that Tony was a partner at Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May. Tony is a member of the California Bar and a number of industry organizations, including the International Council of Shopping Centers and Lambda Alpha.

In addition to practicing law, Tony has successfully developed for his own account a number of multi-family and retail projects.

Tony has published a wide range of real estate related articles in a variety of publications, including the Real Estate Review and the California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) Real Property Law Reporter. He has acted as a consulting editor for CEB in connection with the publication of a number of books, including Tax Deferred Exchanges by Richard Goodman, Mortgage and Deed of Trust Practice by Roger Bernhardt, Real Property Sales Transactions, and Real Estate Finance Practice, in which he is co-author of chapter 3, The Promissory Note. He has appeared regularly over the last 20 years as a featured speaker, moderator or panelist on real estate related programs sponsored by CEB, the Banking Law Institute, the Practicing Law Institute and other industry groups.

Tony graduated from American University in Washington, D.C. with a BA in 1971, and from its Washington College of Law in 1973, where he was a Dean’s Fellow and a member of the Editorial Board of the Law Review. Tony’s avocations have included a frighteningly unsuccessful stint as an amateur and semi-professional race car driver in the 1980’s. Having matured somewhat over the last two decades, he is now an avid, but persistently mediocre, golfer.