Los Angeles, Ca., USA - November 5, 2009, Los Angeles, Ca., USA - Jerold B. Neuman and Michael J. Kiely have joined the Los Angeles/Downtown office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partners in the firm's Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental practice group.
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Mr. Neuman's practice is focused on governmental, land use, real estate, environmental, administrative, and public finance law. The services he provides range from managing the entire entitlement process, including overseeing technical consultants and presiding as primary negotiator with governmental agencies, to reviewing previously negotiated entitlement documentation with a view towards identifying problem areas which may affect the timing of the project's development.
Mr. Neuman is and has been the lead negotiator and project coordinator for many of Southern California's most important real estate projects and governmental procurements, including the Millennium Partners', Capitol Records proposed 1.2 million square foot development, the multi-module retail/entertainment center at Hollywood and Highland, the Walt Disney Company's Grand Central Terminal Corporate Campus, the 110 acre Burbank Empire Center, the Airbus A380 airport readiness program and Scottish Powers renewable energy placement efforts.
Mr. Neuman is currently appointed to the State of California's Economic Strategy Panel in which he currently holds the longest standing seat and was selected by Mayor Villaraigosa to the Mixed-Income Housing Technical Advisory Committee for the City of Los Angeles. He received a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1987 and an undergraduate degree from University of Arizona in 1984.
Mr. Kiely's legal practice has spanned all areas of real estate, including finance, development, and land use. He has extensive experience in representing developers, sellers and buyers, investors and promoters, lenders and real estate joint ventures, with a particular emphasis on projects involving the intersection of private real estate development and government.
Mr. Kiely's lending practice has included the representation of dozens of borrowers in construction loans and permanent financing from private funds, pensions and governmental lenders. His practice includes a substantial public/private emphasis, including redevelopment, relocation, mixed-use and transit-oriented development projects, and public finance, including tax increment financing, Section 108 loans, Community Development Block Grants, Economic Development Initiative grants, Brownfield Economic Development Initiative grants, Mello Roos bond financing and parking, lease and other types of revenue bonds.
Mr. Kiely's representative development matters include the Hollywood & Highland Project (including the Kodak Theater), the Walt Disney Company's Grand Central Terminal Project in Glendale, the Del Mar Station mixed use transit-oriented development in Pasadena, the Blossom Plaza mixed use transit-oriented development in Chinatown, and the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services building in South Los Angeles.
Mr. Kiely recently completed $114 million of Market Tax Credits financings for projects ranging from Pacoima to South Los Angeles and a $40 million financing of the Autumn Terrace Affordable Housing Project in San Marcos. He received a J.D. from UCLA Law School in 1989 and an undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1986. ■