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I am an expert in commercial real estate finance with over 40 years of experience. I have arranged over $11 billion in financing for my developer and investor clients. I work as an active professional arranging capital placement for my clients. Therefore, I am well-versed in commercial real estate finance and related issues, as well as the current and past state of the capital markets. With over 25 years of expert witness experience, I have served as an expert witness or consultant on over three hundred matters, given deposition testimony over 150 times, and trial testimony 100 +/- times in Federal, State, and Bankruptcy courts as well as ADR proceedings. Expert testimony Issues include: Chapter 11 Interest rate determination, partnership disputes, lender/borrower disputes, landlord/tenant disputes, alter ego issues, lender liability matters, lender approval process, the suitability of financing, forensic determination of market-rate and terms of financing, economic feasibility, market impacts on leasing and sales, as well as many other areas. Representative Clients Include: Amazon, Argentic, Bank of America, Carmel Partners, General Electric Real Estate, Hard Rock Hotel, Hyatt Corp., US IRS, Lennar Corp., Mack Real Estate, Poag Development, Simon Property Co., Valley Nat'l Bank, Wells Fargo Bank. Representative Law Firms include: Allen Matkins, Ballard Spahr, Buchalter, Davis Wright, Fabian VanCott, Greenberg Glusker, Gibson Dunn, Irell & Manella, Kaye Scholler, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Morgan Lewis, Munger Tolles, O'Melveny Meyers, Pachulski Stang, Seyfarth Shaw, Skadden Arps, Sonnenschein, Thompson Colburn, Weil Gotshal. In 2009, I was selected as the expert witness for General Growth Properties, then the country's largest owner of shopping malls, in their $20 billion commercial Chapter 11 bankruptcy, one of the largest real estate bankruptcies in history. In 1979, I co-founded George Smith Partners. This well-respected and nationally known commercial real estate capital markets advisory firm advises on the placement of $3 to $4 billion of commercial real estate capital on projects throughout the United States annually. -------------- Education: BA in Economics, University of California, Berkeley - 1976 MBA in Finance, University of Southern California - 1978, MSBA in Real Estate Finance, University of Southern California - 1979 -------------- California Real Estate Brokers License: 1978 - Present (Status: In Good Standing) -------------- CALL FOR FREE CONSULTATION: (O) 310-867-2903 / (C) 310-926-4525 gtenzer@gtenzer.com