Grant Puleo

Grant Puleo focuses his practice on a wide variety of real estate, finance and business transactions, and leads the firm’s Multifamily and Student Housing group. He has extensive experience in a broad array of commercial, multi-family and educational facility (student housing) real estate transactions, including acquisitions, development, construction, affordable housing, P3, syndication, dispositions and specialized leasing and financing of all product types throughout California and the United States. Mr. Puleo's finance experience includes both borrower and lender representation in the origination and workout of complicated debt and equity transactions, such as acquisition and construction financing, mezzanine financing and synthetic leasing transactions. He also represents clients in business matters involving the transfer of business assets and property and the formation and restructuring of joint ventures, private placements, opportunity funds and other business entities.

Mr. Puleo is also a seasoned trial attorney, having tried over a dozen jury trials and several dozen binding arbitrations and mediations involving real estate, finance and business disputes, lis pendens, quiet title and partition actions, as well as risk management and litigation avoidance counseling. Mr. Puleo has also testified as an expert witness in trial, binding arbitration and in deposition. In addition to representing hundreds of clients in mediations and mandatory settlement conferences, Mr. Puleo has received training as a mediator, which includes AAA Advanced Mediation and Dispute Resolution, and 40 hours of training in Mediating the Litigated Case at Pepperdine University's prestigious Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Partner, 2014-present
• Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
  - Partner, 2004-2014
• Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
  - Associate, 2003
• Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP
  - Associate, 2000-2003

• American Bar Association - Advisory Panel
• Trusted Charitable Advisor at the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego
• Endeavor Bank - Advisory Board
• Pro Bono legal counsel for various charitable organizations

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, J.D., With Great Distinction, 1995