ADAM ROBERT SALIS

Adam Salis is a shareholder and founder of Salis Law. Mr. Salis brings almost 30 years of experience to his practice as a transactional real estate attorney, combining his skills as a legal practitioner with practical experience in the real estate industry obtained from his years outside of the practice of law. His work experience runs the gamut of the real estate life cycle, having served as an acquisitions manager, special assets loan officer, REO portfolio manager and managing partner of a syndicate that owned and managed a portfolio of shopping centers located in Southern California.

Mr. Salis’ skills and experience enable him to advise his clients on a wide range of real estate matters, including:

• Standard commercial real estate transactions, including leases, purchases and sales.

• New commercial developments, including site acquisition and due diligence, subdivision and entitlements, preparation of CC&Rs and negotiation of construction financing and related documentation.

• Representation of financial institutions in bridge, mezzanine, construction and permanent loan originations, workouts, receiverships and nonjudicial foreclosures.

• Environmental risk management, including use of indemnifications and insurance as risk allocation tools.

• Creation of affordable housing programs, including negotiation of affordable housing agreements and related documents.

• Real estate joint ventures and syndications

• Partnership workouts and dissolutions.

• Distressed asset transactions, including purchase and sale of individual notes and note portfolios.

• Negotiation of telecommunications leases.

Prior to forming Salis Law, Mr. Salis was a real estate partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP. He also previously served as a Senior Asset Manager with Archon Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman, Sachs & Company, where he managed a residential and commercial real estate portfolio of both debt and equity assets.