Investor, entrepreneur, and advisor in life sciences and complex real estate. I specialize in structuring complex financing, and I invest my own money in the ones I believe in.
Found early, it is leverage. Found late, it is your problem.
The problems that cost real money are rarely obvious. They might be hidden in the documents, in the fine print, and in how people behave. Reading the room is as important as reading documents. Sometimes even more so. My work is to find them early and tell you what they mean, so you decide with your eyes open.
The next move, the sequence of moves, what to accept and what to refuse, and the fortitude to push back when necessary.
When the ordinary path will not carry a sound deal, I build the structure that will, and where it fits, I take a principal position in it. Interim ownership and secured, ring-fenced facilities.
A careful reading of the documents, the record, and the room. Forensic findings that surface what matters. Not a box to check.
The title exception that turns out to be the only access. The amendment adopted years after the plan that quietly changed what is allowed. The condition of approval that binds the next owner. The behavior that tells you the other side will demand a last-minute discount and walk if refused.
I do not give legal advice. I prepare you for the conversation with your attorney so you walk in knowing exactly which questions to ask. That keeps counsel focused on judgment instead of discovery, and it saves hours of billable time.
Some deals do not die because they are bad. They die because no standard structure can hold them. That is where I work. I design the structure that makes a sound deal financeable, and where it fits, I take a principal position in it myself.
Development land often dies in escrow because the timeline runs longer than any ordinary buyer can carry. I close now and hold the land as interim owner while the builder completes entitlements and prepares to take title.
When a late-stage company needs to fund its last mile without raising capital or spending its cash, I structure a secured facility that does exactly that. Every draw is ring-fenced to its purpose.
I structure as a principal and as a retained advisor. When I invest, my own capital is in the deal. I do not place securities or give investment advice; where a transaction requires a licensed securities professional, I engage one.
Medtech, biotech, and pharma founders building technologies that improve how people live, and the investors who back them. When objectives converge into an actual financing, I bring in the right licensed professional to handle the regulated work.
Principals and holding companies in high-stakes transactions where the details decide the outcome, across office, industrial, land, hospitality, development, and multifamily. Buy-side and sell-side, investment due diligence, and lease advisory.
Retained to examine or reconstruct a transaction after it closes: forensic due diligence, litigation and dispute support, and a clear, documented read of what the papers and the conduct actually show.
I read the deal, build the playbook, and run it with you to the close. My counsel is not a courtesy. It shapes the outcome.
I am an advisor to principals and investors, a principal investor, and an entrepreneur who builds companies of my own. I am also a California licensed real estate broker. Principals hire me for analysis and judgment, not access. My background spans capital markets, industry, entrepreneurship, and real estate, with document and contract fluency from paralegal training and mediation training for aligning a room.
When a deal is sound but no ordinary path will carry it, I build the structure that will. That is capital architecture: I act as an interim owner who carries development land through long escrows, and I structure secured, ring-fenced facilities that fund a late-stage company's last mile to commercialization without diluting it or spending its cash. When I invest, my capital is in the deal, not only my advice.
One purpose runs through everything I do: to leave people better off, financially, physically, or psychologically. Making a positive difference in people's lives is the point.
The earlier you bring me in, the more I can do, and the more it is worth. Before you are in contract, before you have hired your team, that is where the leverage still lives. If you are already represented, I can work alongside your existing team as a paid advisor.