Background
Business‑driven real estate lawyer. Brings sophisticated transactional experience in advising a wide range of market participants on complex real estate transactions. Handles acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, restructurings and management across multiple asset classes.
Albert’s real estate practice is informed by his strong business foundation as a former consultant and as a co-founder of two startups. He advises clients on structuring complex real estate transactions and related business matters, serving as lead counsel to developers, operators, private equity investors and lenders in acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and syndications, commercial leasing, financing, loan modifications, workouts and restructurings.
Clients look to Albert for his experience in a wide range of real estate asset classes including multifamily, industrial, retail and office properties, as well as specialty sectors such as industrial outdoor storage, life sciences and build-to-rent communities. He regularly represents clients in joint ventures, structured finance transactions (including CMBS, mezzanine debt and preferred equity) and ongoing asset management.
Prior to practicing law, Albert was a business consultant for Arthur Andersen LLP and Deloitte Consulting LLP, where he provided business process reengineering and systems consulting for Fortune 500 companies in the manufacturing, utilities and entertainment industries, and later played an integral part of forming and operating two startup companies. His legal career began in the real estate department of the Am Law 100 law firms Mayer Brown and Proskauer Rose.
Albert is active in the community. He regularly volunteers for various charities and serves on the board of directors for Narra Los Angeles Holdings, Inc. (the real estate arm of Search to Involve Pilipino Americans). He previously served on the board of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
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Credentials
EDUCATION
2006, J.D. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
1994, B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Economics and Rhetoric
ADMISSIONS
California
