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EDITORIAL REVIEW This creative legal strategist has helped public and private sector clients raise over $70B in debt and equity for some of the nation's most significant real estate developments. — Lawdragon,
January 2008
It all adds up: $50 billion in Feldman-led real estate deals, including master-planned communities, retail malls and brownfield remediation projects. — Lawdragon, July 2007
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Lewis G. Feldman, a member of Goodwin Procter’s National Executive Committee, serves as the Chair of Goodwin Procter LLP's Los Angeles offices and heads the firm’s
Public/Private Development practice. Mr. Feldman is considered to be among the nation’s leading real estate and public
finance attorneys, specializing in structuring, entitling, and executing large-scale financings for real estate industry
participants and the public sector. Mr. Feldman has advised clients on more than $70 billion in debt and equity financings
for market-rate and affordable apartments, master-planned residential communities, industrial and manufacturing facilities,
urban entertainment centers, primary, secondary and university educational facilities, retail malls, hospitals, mixed-use
projects, destination resorts and hotels, brownfield remediation efforts, green building, mitigation banks, transportation
projects and all forms of public infrastructure. He lectures and publishes frequently on real estate finance and
public-private sector financing matters. He earned his JD at the University of California, Davis, serving as the Executive
Editor of the Law Review.
Professional Activities Mr. Feldman is a Founding Member of and serves on the Board of Directors of the University of California, Los Angeles Ziman Center for Real Estate, the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate, the City of Hope Cancer Center Real Estate Industry Council, and the United Way of Greater Los Angeles. Mr. Feldman also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Carlthorp School. He is a Member of the Urban Land Institute, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, California's Coalition for Adequate School Housing and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Honors and Awards Mr. Feldman is listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America® (2000-2007), Lawdragon Top 500 (out of 11 million attorneys) , Leading Dealmakers in America (2007) , and is individually rated “AV” (highest) by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Feldman is recognized as one of "California's Leading Rainmakers" by The Daily Journal , as one of the “Top 100 Lawyers in California” by The Daily Journal (2007), as one of "The Best of Bar" by the Los Angeles Business Journal's, "Who's Who in Law" (2007), as one of the “Top 10 Southern California Real Estate Lawyers” by Real Estate Southern California (www.remedianetwork.com), as one of Los Angeles County’s “Top 100 Attorneys” by American Lawyer Media (2004-2006) (www.americanlawyer.com), included in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Who’s Who in Law” (2007), and is recognized as one of the “California Super Lawyers” by Los Angeles Magazine (1st Edition through 2007). Mr. Feldman served as lead counsel to the California State Treasurer on the State of California's $11 billion Economic Recovery Bonds, which is the largest public sector bond transaction in American history. That transaction received The Bond Buyer's Far West Deal of the Year Award (2005). Publications and Presentations As a frequent lecturer on finance matters, Mr. Feldman has been a featured speaker for many associations and groups, including the California Redevelopment Agency, the League of California Cities, the Urban Land Institute, the Milken Institute, the Pacific Coast Builders Conference, the Building Industry Association, the California Association for Local Economic Development, the Council of Development Finance Agencies, the National Federation of Municipal Finance Analysts, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, the University of California Anderson School of Business, the University of California Los Angeles Real Estate Forecast, the Los Angeles County Bar Association Benjamin Crocker Symposium, the Real Estate Conference Group, Information Management Network and the University of Southern California Lusk 100 Real Estate Conference. He has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and as an expert witness in high-stakes real estate and public finance litigation matters. Articles and comments by Mr. Feldman appear in numerous publications such as Urban Land Magazine, the NAREIT Report, Fixed Income Daily, Commercial Property News, The Daily Journal, The Los Angeles Business Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Recorder, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Sacramento Bee, The New York Times, The Bond Buyer, The Daily Deal, The California Real Estate Journal, Real Estate Forum, Western Cities Magazine, The San Diego Tribune, Forbes and Fortune Magazine. Bar and Court Admissions Mr. Feldman is admitted to practice in California. Education J.D., University of California at Davis, 1982 (Executive Editor, Law Review) B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, 1978 (with highest honors)
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