ArentFox Schiff

Real Estate

Partner

David focuses on providing practical business advice and insight to his real estate, finance, and corporate clients. He handles strategic commercial real estate finance, acquisition and disposition transactions, real estate restructuring matters, distressed debt transactions, corporate and banking acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial lending, and other finance transactions.

Through his experiences as both outside counsel and general counsel for a major commercial finance company and a development-stage telecommunications company, David has developed an informed perspective on supporting and achieving a client’s goals and objectives. His time as a general counsel gives him a novel understanding of the issues and challenges faced by in-house attorneys, including those conducting business internationally. With more than 30 years of experience representing companies in several industries through positive and adverse economic cycles, David is well-positioned to provide clients with comprehensive legal advice to help them efficiently achieve and maximize their business objectives through changing economic conditions.

Washington Housing Conservancy, Member of the Board of Directors; Maryland Carey School of Law, Member of the Board of Visitors; Connelly School of the Holy Child, Former Member of the Board of Trustees; CapitalSource Charitable Foundation, Member of the Board of Directors

University of Maryland School of Law, JD, Order of the Coif, 1988 The Catholic University of America, BA, cum laude, 1984