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58 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
T: (415) 788-6330
F: (415) 391-0555
E: dbunim@hnattorneys.com

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David E. Bunim is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and the George Washington University Law School. He is a former Deputy Attorney General in the Business Law section of the California Department of Justice, where his practice centered on real estate, insurance law and corporate securities. Mr. Bunim was an adjunct professor of Insurance Law at Golden Gate University, teaching insurance law and has served on various corporate directorships. Mr. Bunim is a seasoned litigator in the areas of real estate and construction law. He is also an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, and serves on the Large Complex Construction Panel, as well as serving as a private mediator throughout the country. Mr. Bunim is actively involved in surety and construction law matters and has experience with all of the AIA design and construction contracts. He regularly counsels clients on the negotiation of design and construction contracts. In addition, he advises business owners with respect to insurance coverage and claims matters and bad faith litigation, and has given presentations at the national meetings of the American Bar Association.

Practice Areas: Real Estate

58 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
T: (415) 788-6330
F: (415) 391-0555
E: l.vanvelsor@hnattorneys.com
Van Velsor has broad experience in real estate and finance law and handling multiple and multi-faceted transactions for both buyer and sellers. Her previous experience includes energy and real estate law for Orion Energy, and for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff. Van Velsor received her J.D. from New York University, where she specialized in real estate, urban policy and environmental law.

Practice Areas: Real Estate

58 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA, 94108
T: (415) 788-6330
F: (415) 391-0555
E: ghein@hnattorneys.com

Gary M. Hein has a diverse real estate practice representing owners and developers locally and nationally in the acquisition, construction, leasing, management, financing and disposition of all types of commercial real property, with an emphasis on office buildings, industrial, multi-family, hotels, retail and shopping centers. He also represents corporate clients in a wide range of important business transactions, including sales, services, partnering and licensing agreements, stock and asset purchase agreements, internal contracting policy and governance related matters.

Mr. Hein recently was involved in the negotiation and documentation of a joint venture agreement, limited liability company operating agreement, and development agreement involving the City and Port of Oakland, a local real estate developer and a foreign capital partner regarding a large multi-family, retail and public open space development project located on the Oakland waterfront.

Mr. Hein has considerable experience in negotiating, documenting, restructuring and enforcing commercial leases. He has represented the owner of a Class A 375,000 square foot office building in the East Bay in all of its leasing and related matters, in addition to landlords and tenants in office, retail, mixed use and industrial properties both locally and nationally.

He recently represented the landlord and general partnership owner of a 225,000 square foot manufacturing facility and office complex in Texas in a commercial arbitration dispute, winning a large award for his client against the tenant for breach of the lease, payment of back rent, and declaration of future rent during the remaining lease term.

Mr. Hein graduated from The University of California Berkeley with a bachelor degree in Social Science/Modern Corporations, having served as captain on both Cal’s football and rugby teams. He received his Masters in Jurisprudence from Oxford University in England, where he also won two Varsity Blues on the rugby pitch against Cambridge University.

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

58 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA, 94108
T: (415) 788-6330
F: (415) 391-0555
E: msancimino@hnattorneys.com

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Mary G. Sancimino is a graduate of the University of California at Davis (B.A. History, 1984) and San Francisco Law School (J.D. 1989). She is a member of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the State Bar of California, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. Ms. Sancimino is certified by the State Bar of California as a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law. Ms. Sancimino’s practice emphasizes estate planning, as well as the administration of Living Trusts, probate estate administrations, and the administration of guardianships and conservatorships.

Practice Areas: Business Transactions

58 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
T: (415) 788-6330
F: (415) 391-0555
E: agumbinger@hnattorneys.com

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Aaron M. Gumbinger is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara (B.A. with honors, Political Science, 1986) and of the University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law (J.D. 1989). Mr. Gumbinger’s practice emphasizes corporate and business transactional matters, including: formation of business entities including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies; transactional work including business mergers, acquisitions and conversions, drafting purchase and sale agreements, buy-sell agreements, stock purchase agreements, warrants, incentive stock option plans and stock option award agreements and maintaining corporate and LLC minutes and records; review and preparation of various business related agreements and contracts; and securities issues relating to the issuance of stock and membership interests. Mr. Gumbinger is also involved in workouts and loan restructuring and representation of commercial and residential owners in leasing, financing and disposition of real property.

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

58 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
T: (415) 788-6330
F: (415) 391-0555
E: lbeck@hnattorneys.com

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Lawrence P. Beck is a graduate of Brandeis University and Golden Gate University School of Law. Mr. Beck also holds an L.L.M. in Taxation from Golden Gate University. When he joined the firm in 1984, Mr. Beck brought four years of experience as a tax accountant at Hood & Strong, Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Beck is a member of the State Bar of California and the U.S. Tax Court. His practice emphasizes estate planning, including Living Trusts, Insurance Trusts, Charitable Trusts, Family Limited Partnerships and Qualified Personal Residence Trusts. He also handles trust administration, probates, and advises clients regarding incorporations, general partnerships, buy-sell agreements, real estate purchases and conservatorships. He has given estate planning workshops for the Internal Revenue Service, California Retired Teachers Association, Sons in Retirement, and many other distinguished organizations and companies.

Practice Areas: Litigation

58 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA, 94108
T: (415) 788-6330
F: (415) 391-0555
E: prosenberg@hnattorneys.com

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Patricia G. Rosenberg is a graduate of Brandeis University and the University of San Francisco School of Law. She is a member of the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Eastern Districts of California and the State Bar of California. She is a Past President of Queen’s Bench Bar Association. Ms. Rosenberg’s practice includes a broad range of commercial litigation with an emphasis on construction and real estate litigation. Ms. Rosenberg also holds directorships in various non-profit organization

Practice Areas: Real Estate

58 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
T: (415) 788-6330
F: (415) 391-0555
E: rnicholas@hnattorneys.com

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Robert C. Nicholas maintains a diverse real estate practice representing owners and developers in the acquisition, disposition, leasing, financing, construction and management of all types of commercial real property, with an emphasis on hotels, office buildings, multi-family and mixed-use projects and shopping centers. A substantial part of his practice also involves the negotiation of third-party and “brand” hotel management agreements and hotel franchise agreements.

Mr. Nicholas recently represented Zarsion Holdings Group Co., Ltd., a developer from Beijing, China in forming a joint venture with Signature Development Group to complete the horizontal development of a 1.5 billion dollar urban infill project in Oakland, California, known as “Brooklyn Basin”. This engagement involved the assembly of a due diligence team to perform the legal due diligence on behalf of Zarsion and the negotiation of a joint venture agreement.

He also recently represented Fullwel Management Inc. and Faustus Capital LLC in forming a joint venture with a developer from China, Oceanwide Real Estate Group, to acquire a nearly fully entitled urban infill project known as “Fig Central” in downtown Los Angeles. This engagement involved the negotiation of joint venture documents, the negotiation of a purchase and sale agreement with the seller, the Moinian Group, the assembly of a due diligence team and the supervision of the due diligence.

A few of Mr. Nicholas’ other note worthy engagements include the representation of the seller of the landmark Renaissance Ilikai Hotel in Honolulu, the buyer of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites in Los Angeles and Rim Hotel Group in the disposition of the company’s portfolio of hotels.

Mr. Nicholas has considerable experience in negotiating, documenting, restructuring and enforcing commercial leases. He represents the owner of 71 Stevenson Place, a Class A office building in San Francisco in all of its leasing and related matters and, in that capacity, recently negotiated and drafted leases for over 250,000 square feet of office space.

He also acts as outside general counsel to FIT Investment Corporation with respect to all of its domestic real estate matters. In that role, he has handled numerous acquisitions and dispositions of hotels, office buildings and warehouse facilities located throughout the United States.

Mr. Nicholas regularly counsels a number of commercial brokerage firms on legal developments, was a guest lecturer in an advanced real estate transactions course at Stanford Law School, enjoys an “A/V” Martindale rating and is a member of the Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys, Asian Hotel Owners Association, American Hotel & Lodging Association and the Real Property Section of the American Bar, California State Bar and San Francisco Bar Associations.

Practice Areas: Business Transactions, Government Contracts

58 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
T: (415) 788-6330
F: (415) 391-0555
E: lhaas@hnattorneys.com
Louis N. Haas is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford Law School. While on active duty as an Army lawyer and officer, he served as chief trial attorney representing the government in contract dispute cases before the U.S. Army Board of Contract Appeals, Europe. Mr. Haas also performed trial work and advised clients in all areas of labor relations law as an associate with the firm of Littler, Mendelson & Fastiff before he co-founded Haas & Najarian in 1973. He has tried and supervised government contract disputes in virtually every forum in the country, including contract appeals boards, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Federal District and Circuit Courts, U.S. Supreme Court and the GAO. Mr. Haas is a member of the State Bar of California and the Federal and American Bar Associations (sections on Public Contract Law and Labor Relations Law). He is a member of the Association of General Contractors Legal Advisory Committee and writes and lectures on construction and government contracts matters. In addition to his work in the government contracts area, Mr. Haas regularly provides business advice to clients in a wide range of industries including real estate, manufacturing, mining, technology and an array of service businesses. Mr. Haas provides advice and services to his business clients regarding the structuring of transactions and entities, financing and credit arrangements, and other general business and corporate matters. Mr. Haas also advises a number of nonprofit entities and has served on several nonprofit boards.