OVERVIEW
Peter Kline has been with the firm since 1975. His principal experience has been in commercial real estate transactions (acquisitions, disposition, real estate finance, joint venture development, simple and complex leasing transactions and land use) as well as corporate, partnership and limited liability company transactions. Peter has been selected to the Northern California Super Lawyers 2010 and Northern California Super Lawyers 2009.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

	•		Formation and representation of an investor group to acquire a retail shopping center containing approximately 228,139 square feet of rentable space situated on leased land, the refinance of the existing financing with a conduit lender and the coordination of the eventual sale of the shopping center for $51,000,000.
	•		Negotiation and documentation of the sale of a 422,536 square foot downtown office complex.
	•		Negotiation and documentation of the acquisition of a 661 unit apartment complex in Sacramento, California.
	•		Negotiation and documentation of the acquisition and development (with tax credit financing) of approximately 1.9 acres of undeveloped land for the construction of approximately 250 low cost housing units.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

	•		Member, California Bar Association
	•		Co-sponsor (with Investment Property Exchange Services, Inc), Professional Brokers Forum
	•		Member, Landlord-Tenant Committee, State Bar of California
	•		Lecturer, Lorman Seminars, Commercial Lending Documentation
	•		Former Affiliated Member, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors
	•		Former Member, Committee on Legal Opinions in Real Estate Transactions, American Bar Association

CIVIC AND CHARITABLE WORK

	•		Chairman, Trustees of the Builders Exchange of Santa Clara County Scholarship Fund
	•		Past Chairman, Santa Clara County Council of Boy Scouts Golf Tournament
	•		Director, Boys & Girls Club of Silicon Valley
	•		13 years coaching A.Y.S.O. Soccer

EDUCATION

			J.D., cum laude, University of San Francisco School of Law, 1974
			B.A., Rutgers College, 1970

Peter A. Kline

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