James R. Moore

Acquisitions and Dispositions

• Lead counsel in the acquisition and disposition of numerous high-rise office buildings and multiple commercial office and retail projects throughout California, and 16 other states.
• Representation of a Northern California federally-recognized Indian Tribe, and its affiliated entities, in connection with real property acquisitions, dispositions and financings.
• The acquisition, development and resale of a 5,000 acre award-winning master-planned new town project in San Joaquin County, including the phased sales of land and lots for more than $1.5 billion (in the aggregate) to national and regional builders.
• The acquisition and disposition of tens of thousands of acres of ranch and agricultural lands in Northern California.
• Negotiated, documented and closed the mixed-use, multi-property lease and phased acquisition of a portion of a decommissioned United States Air Force Base.
• Served as special real estate counsel to the Chapter 11 Trustee in connection with the sale, auction and disposition of the estate’s numerous real property holdings and commercial real estate portfolio in the largest bankruptcy filing in the history of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Eastern District of California.
• The acquisition of a $494 million non-performing loan encumbering a partially developed luxury residential master-planned community on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, including the acquisition of various real and personal property assets related to the project.
• The acquisition, from a national finance company, of a $13 million non-performing loan secured by sixteen underlying real and personal property secured loans, including the negotiation and documentation of the loan purchase, the diligence on the loan and the underlying collateral, and the closing of the acquisition.

Leasing

• Statewide leasing counsel for a major California financial institution with over 75 retail locations throughout California.
• Leasing counsel for the ownership of a high-rise, commercial office building in the downtown Sacramento “Capitol Mall” district.
• Negotiated and documented complex orchard development leases and ground lease option structures for major agri-business clients in Northern California’s Central Valley.
• Leasing counsel for the developer/owner of several commercial office projects and retail projects in Northern California.
• Negotiated and documented complex ground leases and option structures for one of the fastest growing commercial carwash operators in California.

Real Estate Finance

• Represented a national banking institution in connection with the complex, multi-stage, mixed collateral foreclosure of a major Northern California paper mill and related real and personal property holdings.
• Represented a federally-recognized Indian Tribe in connection with the contested foreclosure of a 160-acre commercial/industrial project.
• The development and implementation, for the CRHMFA Homebuyers Fund, of the Moderate Income Retrofit and Conversion Loan Program, including: (i) negotiation of the California Energy Commission grant contract; (ii) structuring and creating loan program documentation, vendor contracts and underwriting guidelines; and (iii) creating loan servicing guidelines in connection with long term loan program administration.
• Representation of a major investment partner and affiliated guarantor in a failed Bay Area development project, including institutional lender workout, forbearance and settlement.
• Representation of a defaulting borrower and affiliate guarantor in the workout and settlement of an $85,000,000 loan made by a major institutional lender.