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
VISITOR RATINGS (on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being best)
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| TERESA SOUSA, President, Los Angeles Urban Communities, SunCal Companies |
relationship: represented me (public financing)
rates/fees: Expensive, but a very worthwhile value
comments: I've known Lew for many years. He is creative, brilliant and a master strategist. Lew is responsive to his clients and understands both the legal and business aspects of our industry. He is a valuable member of our development team.
| | service | 10 | | expertise | 10 | | quality | 10 | | overall | 10 | | recommend? | yes | |
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| BRUCE COOK, General Counsel, SunCal Companies |
relationship: represented me (General financing and CFD matters)
rates/fees: I approve all bills from all law firms representing us. His rates have always been reasonable based on the work performed, and we have always received good service for the work billed for.
comments: He is very concscientous regarding our interests. He is proactive in watching out for our needs and concerns and advising us of these things even when not asked. He and his firm provide excellent service to us and I have nothing but good things to say about him.
| | service | 10 | | expertise | 10 | | quality | 10 | | overall | 10 | | recommend? | yes | |
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| ANONYMOUS REVIEWER |
relationship: represented me (Bond Counsel)
rates/fees: $450-600 per hour
comments: Highly respected and knowledgeable lawyer, who is able to work with and represent both pubic and private sector clients. He provides a highly detailed knowledge of his fields of practice. Our main experience with him has been as the head of our legal team for corporate law and bond financing.
| | service | 9 | | expertise | 10 | | quality | 10 | | overall | 10 | | recommend? | yes | |
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| ANONYMOUS REVIEWER |
relationship: represented me (real estate purchase)
rates/fees: $675 per hour
comments: Excellent
| | service | 10 | | expertise | 10 | | quality | 10 | | overall | 10 | | recommend? | yes | |
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| CHRIS MARLIN, Deputy General Counsel, Lennar Corporation |
relationship: represented me (Various)
rates/fees: Rates are premium.
comments: Lew is what I refer to as a Leadership Lawyer. Regardless of the subject matter involved (whether it is within or outside of his core expertise), Lew assembles and leads the appropriate legal team for the cause. In doing so, the client gets excellent counsel and results.
| | service | 10 | | expertise | 10 | | quality | 10 | | overall | 10 | | recommend? | yes | |
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| STEPHEN HEANEY, Managing Director, Stone & Youngberg |
relationship: represented me (My Counsel on bond financings)
rates/fees: I don not have any rate information.
comments: I have worked with Lew for many years. He has represented my as counsel on underwritings and I have worked on financings where he has represented the developer the financings will benefit. He is creative and solution oriented, while at the same time being proactive in identifying areas of concern that might break a deal if not solved. He is a consumate professional and approaches assignments with an attitude that helps make the entire financing team want to work together. I highly recommend him.
| | service | 10 | | expertise | 10 | | quality | 10 | | overall | 10 | | recommend? | yes | |
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| CHRIS MODRZEJEWSKI, Principal, Sage Advisors, Inc |
relationship: Have had several clients in common (Complicated development projects and financings)
rates/fees: top tier
comments: Lew is a "can do" attorney and knows how to handle complicated situations. He breaks down the challenges, identifies the solutions, and can bring all parties along to create consensus.
| | service | 10 | | expertise | 10 | | quality | 10 | | overall | 10 | | recommend? | yes | |
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| KENNETH SEEGER, President/CEO, The Predidio Group, LLC |
relationship: represented me (Public Bond Financing/General Real Estate Matters)
rates/fees: I do not have Lew's current rate schedule.
comments: Lew is an extremely talented lawyer who enjowys wide recognition. This has placed heavy demand on him for his services and therefore the only issue that you may have to deal with is his timely availability. That said, Lew makes a concerted effort to meet his clients needs and is highly recommented.
| | service | 9 | | expertise | 10 | | quality | 10 | | overall | 10 | | recommend? | yes | |
| ANONYMOUS REVIEWER |
relationship: represented me (Community Facilities District Agreement)
rates/fees: Hourly, negotiated outside of my involvement
comments: The overall experience was positive, and the resulting agreement was good (despite the diffuiculty of the situation). Every effort was made to negotiate in a positive and productive manner with the governing agency and their counsel. | | | service | 9 | | expertise | 10 | | quality | 10 | | overall | 10 | | recommend? | yes | |
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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)
