Ross Adler is a retired member of Hopkins & Carley’s Financial Institutions & Creditors’ Rights Practice and Real Estate Practice. His practice encompasses a broad range of transactional real estate matters, particularly on behalf of financial institutions, developers, and property owners in:
- Construction, bridge, and permanent financing transactions
- Loan workouts
- Purchase and sale transactions
- Option to purchase transactions
- Commercial real estate leases
- Tax-deferred exchange transactions
- Easements and licenses
- Title insurance matters
- Represented a large regional bank in a series of related construction loans for mixed use project including hotel and retail space.
- Represented a large regional bank in a real estate loan default with a loan amount of more than $17 million and potential bankruptcy.
- Represented multiple developer clients in acquisition deals valued well in excess of $1 billion involving many hundreds of acres throughout the Western U.S.
- Represented a landowner in documenting a complex transaction involving several hundred acres being sold for development.
- Represented a regional bank in the sale of three problem construction loans valued at more than $15 million in principal to an investor.
- Represented a landowner in a ground lease of land for a large retail development project.
- Represented a private equity lender/investor in investment in and loan to Tahoe casino project.
- San Jose’s First Community Housing, Board Member and Secretary
- American Red Cross, Former Board Member of San Jose Chapter
- Santa Clara County Bar Association
- State Bar of California (1983)
- J.D., University of California, Berkeley
- B.A., History and German, University of California, Berkeley
