Lawrence Brown represents clients in a broad range of finance, real estate, and business transactions. He advises clients in connection with credit facilities, financings, acquisitions and sales, loan restructurings, enforcement actions, joint ventures, and development projects. Lawrence's commercial real estate development experience includes entity formation, land acquisition, joint venture agreements, easements and CC&Rs, construction and permanent financing, and leasing. He also advises owners, lenders, and distressed debt purchasers in connection with restructurings and forbearances related to both single assets and property portfolios.
Representative Transactions
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- Represented lending syndicates in multiple homebuilder credit facilities exceeding $250,000,000 each
- Represented buyer and developer of downtown Phoenix assemblage for commercial development
- Represented borrower in connection with inventory, warehouse, and securitization credit facilities
- Represented joint venture in development and leasing of multi-phased Scottsdale mixed-use project
- Represented foreign financial institution in financing $100,000,000 cement plant
- Represented foreign financial institution in connection with liens on aircraft serviced in United States
- Represented borrower in three-tiered credit arrangement to finance operations
- Represented USAID contractor with agency contracting issues in former Soviet republics
- Represented Arizona business from formation to ultimate sale
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1998)
- Primary Editor, The Tax Lawyer
- American Graduate School of International Management (M.B.A., 1993)
- University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1992)
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court of Arizona
Professional Memberships & Activities
- State Bar of Arizona
- American Bar Association
- Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations
Representative Presentations & Publications
- Cayman Islands Corporation Engaged in U.S. Trade or Business: Inverworld v. Commissioner, 50 Tax Law 659 (1997)
- Has conducted in-house seminars for clients and attorneys regarding title insurance, surveys, loan documentation, and other real estate issues
- Has spoken at schools ranging from grade schools through graduate schools on topics including the practice of law and access to credit markets
Community Involvement
- American Heart Association, Phoenix Heart Walk Committee (2002-2004)
- Volunteer Lawyers Program
- YMCA Coach
- Mountain Park Community Church
Other Professional Experience
- Commonwealth of Independent States Contracts, Burson-Marsteller, Financial Administrator, Washington, DC
- Ruesch International, Currency Trader, Washington, DC
