JD, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 1986

BA, Loyola Marymount University, 1983

• California State Bar

• Advised on a US$4.9 billion APM train system to ease access in and out of an international airport which also connects travelers to a light rail, intermodal transportation facility and a rental car center. Now under construction, it is the first APM system procured through an availability payment public-private partnership delivery model and earned several national and international awards.
• Advised on a rental car facility project at an international airport that will relocate and centralize car rental facilities and provide direct access to major freeways. When completed, Tthe US$2 billion project will be the largest such facility in the world.  It was procured using an availability payment public-private partnership delivery model.
• Advised on a US$1.8 billion P3, which included a multi-faceted upgrade of an international airport terminal and the development and management of a new concessions program within the terminal. The project combined an availability structure with shared revenue risk on the concessions program.
• Advised a major university system on a US$1.3 billion P3 project that doubled the size of a campus with the addition of new facilities, including student housing, classrooms, recreational facilities and associated infrastructure. The award-winning project is the first university availability payment P3 to close in the United States and achieved substantial completion on schedule and on budget in June 2020. The project was awarded platinum LEED, making it the first public research university to be certified as carbon neutral and one of the only universities in the world designed to achieve triple net zero (energy, waste and greenhouse gas emissions).
• Advised on the design and construction of a new US$756 million tunnel which will expand capacity and improve safety for travelers utilizing the tunnel, the sole connection between two major peninsulas.
• Advised on the development and negotiation of contract and procurement documents for a US$2.3 billion highway development across two large counties in Florida. The availability payment P3 project will rebuild 15 major interchanges, add or replace 127 bridges and build four tolled express lanes partially funded through a US$949 million TIFIA loan.
• Advised on the development of a new 1.5-mile cable-stayed bridge to serve one of the world’s largest and busiest container ports. Assisted with the US$957.5 million procurement and with contract administration, including claims resolution and project acceptance. Negotiated agreements for property acquisitions and utility relocations, as well as agreements for transfer of property to the State of California. Also negotiated an agreement with the state concerning reimbursement of operation and maintenance costs. The project opened to traffic in 2020.
• Advised on procurement and delivery of a US$1.8 billion public-private partnership aimed at alleviating congestion on a main east-west traffic corridor in South Florida. Advised on procurement and contract documents and the financing structure, and addressed issues that arose throughout design and construction. The project, the first US transportation project with an availability payment scheme, won numerous honors and opened for operation in March 2014.
• Advised on the US$1.35 billion design-build contract to replace a 60-year-old elevated freeway with what was at the time the world’s largest-diameter bored tunnel. The two-mile waterfront tunnel opened in February 2019. It incorporates a double-decked roadway with incoming and outgoing traffic on different levels.
• Advised on procurement, financing and delivery of twin 42-foot tunnels at one of the world’s busiest cruise ship ports, the public-private partnership, which greatly reduced traffic on city street in a Florida city. The US$800 million availability payment project, which opened on schedule and on budget in August 2014, won many awards included the construction of twin 42-foot tunnels.

• Chambers Global, Chambers and Partners, Projects, PPP – Nationwide, 2012-2023 (Band 1 for 2020-2023)
• Chambers USA, Chambers and Partners, , Projects, PPP – Nationwide, 2011-2023 (Band 1 for 2020-2023)
• Named a Top 100 Lawyer, Los Angeles Business Journal, 2023
• Recipient of the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award - Infrastructure, Daily Journal, 2019
• Named a Top 100 Lawyer, Daily Journal, 2018, 2020
• Named to the Minority Leaders of Influence: Attorneys list, Los Angeles Business Journal, 2021 and 2019
• Recognized as one of the 2021 Visionaries in Banking and Finance, Los Angeles Times, 2021
• The Legal 500 United States, Industry Focus: Finance/Project Finance - Advice to Sponsors, 2019-2023
• Recognized as a California Trailblazer, Recorder, 2019
• Recognized as a Leader in Law for Real Estate, Los Angeles Business Journal, 2018
• Project Finance MVP, Law360, 2014, and 2016
• AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

• Co-Author, "US Infra Faces New Stresses," Project Finance International, January 13, 2021
• Co-Author, "Lessons Learned from Progressive Design-Build Implementation on Airport Projects," Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, November 1, 2019
• Co-Author, "I-4: The Ultimate Project," Project Finance International, January 1, 2015
• Co-Author, "Florida's Forward Thinking," World Highways, October 2014
• Author, "I-4 Ultimate Financial Close A P3 Benchmark," Public Works Financing, September 1, 2014

• Moderator, "Using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to Help Universities Have More Community Engagement," 2023 Public-Private Partnership Higher Education Summit, San Diego, CA, November 2023
• Discussion Leader, "Building a Safer, Resilient California," 2023 Mobility 21 Southern California Transportation Summit, Anaheim, CA, September 29, 2023
• Speaker, "The Meritocracy Myth: Pipeline Development and Advancement for Diverse Candidates," Driving Diversity in Law and Leadership Summit, Los Angeles, CA, September 21, 2023
• Moderator, "California Electric Vehicles & Charging Infrastructure," 4th Infraday California, Los Angeles, CA, April 18, 2023
• Speaker, "Risk Allocation for Alternative Delivery Projects: Legal Issues," Private Client Presentation, January 25, 2023
• Speaker, "Resiliency in Transportation Planning," Cornell University Breakfast Briefing, October 2, 2020
• Speaker, "Resiliency Matters," 2020 Mobility 21 Southern California Transportation Summit: Generation Transportation, September 17, 2020
• Speaker, "The Influence of the Interstate Commerce Clause on Transportation," 2020 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 12, 2020
• Panelist, "US Infrastructure Trends and Policy for Federal, State and Local Government," 2019 American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 9, 2019
• Panelist, "Assessing the Impact of State-Level P3 Laws on Development," US P3 Forum 2019, New York City. June 13, 2019
• Moderator, "P3 Showcase Session – LAWA’s Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility (ConRAC) Project," 2019 Public-Private Partnership Conference and Expo, Dallas, TX, March 5, 2019
• Speaker, "History of and Improvements in P3 Legislation," Transportation Research Board 2019 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 14, 2019
• Speaker, "Lessons Learned from Progressive Design-Build Implementation on Airport Projects," Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 13, 2019
• Panelist, "Looking to the Future: Puerto Rico’s Student Life and Public Safety Training Center Projects," 2018 P3 Higher Education Summit, San Diego, CA, September 12, 2018
• Panelist, "Is There Value in Long-term Partnerships through P3’s For Small and Medium Sized Projects?," P3C Public- Private Partnership Conference and Expo, Dallas, TX, February 27, 2018
• Panelist, "Implementing Higher Education P3s: The UC Merced, Ohio State University and University of Massachusetts Experience," 2017 P3 Higher Education Summit, San Diego, CA, October 2, 2017
• Panelist, "Comparison of Alternative Delivery Models," The Public-Private Partnership Airport Summit, San Diego, CA, July 25, 2017
• Panelist, "The New World of Public-Private Partnerships," USC Gould School of Law 2017 Real Estate Law and Business Forum, Los Angeles, CA, March 9, 2017
• Speaker, "UC Merced 2020 Project – A Path Breaking Social Infrastructure P3 Project," P3C Public-Private Partnership Conference and Expo, Dallas, TX, February 27, 2017

• USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Price School of Public Policy, Adjunct Instructor
• Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy, Advisory Board
• American Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Construction Lawyers Society of America, Fellow