Fragner Seifert Pace & Winograd, LLP Welcomes Andrew S. Kwok
Fragner Seifert Pace & Winograd, LLP is pleased to announce that Andrew S. Kwok is joining the Firm effective January 6, 2014.
- Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA (1888PressRelease) January 08, 2014 - The law firm of Fragner Seifert Pace & Winograd, LLP is pleased to announce that Andrew S. Kwok will be joining the Firm as a Partner effective as of January 6, 2014.
Andrew S. Kwok's career as a corporate attorney is long and distinguished. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Magna Cum Laude in 1990 and Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994, Mr. Kwok began his legal career as an associate attorney with Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City. He joined the New York office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Schriver & Jacobson LLP as an associate attorney in the corporate department in 1996, and was elevated by that firm to partner in 2002. In 2003, along with another partner and a group of seven associates comprising the entire structured finance department, he left Fried Frank to join the New York law firm of McKee Nelson.
In 2004, Mr. Kwok left private practice for the legal department of the U.S. capital markets division of RBS. Mr. Kwok performed a variety of senior legal roles there, from heading legal coverage in the U.S. for structured credit to, more recently, Latin America, structured finance and non-core markets.
With almost 20 years of sophisticated financial products and corporate experience, Mr. Kwok is a very highly regarded expert on legal issues related to structured finance and securitized products (CLO's, CMBS, RMBS, ABS and the like). He also is well known for his extensive legal work related to special out-of-court restructuring situations involving certain of RBS's largest and most complex legacy exposures.
Mr. Kwok will be a partner in the Firm's Downtown Los Angeles office, located at 601 South Figueroa Street, Suite 2380, Los Angeles, CA 90017. Mr. Kwok is a member of the New York bar. The Firm expects Mr. Kwok's practice to continue to focus on sophisticated financial products, private equity and general corporate matters.
Fragner Seifert Pace & Winograd, LLP is a well known boutique transactional real estate firm with offices in both Downtown Los Angeles and West Los Angeles. Formed in 2005, the attorneys at FSPW have successfully handled billions of dollars of high profile commercial real estate and related transactions, including the following:
• acting as lead counsel for a purchaser of a portfolio of existing Southern California office buildings for over $1.4 billion,
• acting as lead counsel for the acquisition of the Hollywood & Highland® shopping center in Hollywood, California (including a 637 room hotel, a major "live performance" theater and a retail shopping complex) for a price in excess of $200 million,
• acting as lead counsel in negotiating disposition and development agreements for mixed use projects in San Diego, San Jose, Huntington Beach, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Brea, San Pedro, Pomona, Anaheim and West Hollywood, representing an aggregate investment of over $400 million.
• handling California aspects of and preparation and delivering legal opinions on enforceability of loan documents to support the mortgage and mezzanine financing ($1.5+ billion) of a portfolio of performing California commercial real estate.
• handling California aspects of and preparation and delivering legal opinions for the mortgage financing of a 60+ story office tower in downtown Los Angeles ($100+ million), two office buildings west of Downtown Los Angeles (twice; the first time for $90+ million and again several years later for $85+ million), a to-be-built office tower in Orange County, CA ($57+ million), and a portfolio of Southern California office buildings ($27 million),
• representing both buyers and sellers in bulk purchases and sales of pools of mortgage loans ranging from $10 million to over $200 million,
• representing office and retail shopping center developers and owners in virtually all aspects of purchasing, financing, developing leasing, operating and disposing of California commercial real estate, and
• acting as lead counsel for acquirer by a negotiated deed-in-lieu of foreclosure of a portfolio of 22 apartment buildings in San Francisco.
The attorneys at Fragner Seifert Pace & Winograd seek to provide the highest quality legal services while adding value to their clients' objectives, striving to be as efficient as possible, using common sense approaches that yield benefits to the Firm's clients on an immediate, short term and long term basis.
For more information please visit our website at http://www.fspwlawllp.com or contact Norbert Seifert, a Partner at Fragner Seifert Pace & Winograd, LLP. Mr. Seifert can be reached at +1 (310) 277-9150 or nseifert ( @ ) fspwlaw dot com.
###
space
space
Satisfied Users & 
Approved Press Releases
Print
Email
Report Spam