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Tony Canzoneri, Chairman of Brown Winfield Canzoneri Abram Inc., has over 30 years of experience in handling sophisticated real estate matters for private and public clients. He has been involved in all aspects of real estate transactions, including the negotiation and documentation of acquisitions, dispositions, financings, development agreements, ground leases, space leases, covenants, conditions and restrictions and governing documents for residential subdivisions, mixed-use projects and master plan communities. Mr. Canzoneri's lender experience has included land development and construction loans, loan work outs, foreclosures and REO work. He also has extensive experience in land use, environmental, planning, zoning, redevelopment, economic development, construction, finance and asset management. Mr. Canzoneri is the City Attorney and Redevelopment Agency Counsel for the Cities of Cerritos and Monterey Park, and has acted as special counsel in connection with land use, real estate and redevelopment matters for various local agencies including as Lead Real Estate Counsel for the Los Angeles Community College District. Mr. Canzoneri's years of experience in representing both private sector and public agency clients, has enabled him to develop a unique expertise in the art of creating and implementing successful public private partnerships. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND AWARDS Mr. Canzoneri is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (Member, Sections on Real Property, Taxation, Trust and Estates) and American Bar Association (Member, Sections on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law; Urban State and Local Government Law; Corporation, Banking and Business Law; Law Practice Management) and State Bar of California. Mr. Canzoneri was named a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2005 and 2006. Mr. Canzoneri's volunteer efforts include membership on the Board of Directors of Project GRAD Los Angeles; the Executive Committee of the Central City Association; Executive Committee of the Los Angeles Business Council; and, District Councilmember for the Urban Land Institute. He is also an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and the American Institute of Wine and Food. SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS Mr. Canzoneri's presentations have covered topics from mixed-use development and public/private partnerships to legal issues and homeowner association considerations, including: Coordinating an Urban Land Institute Mobile Tour in 2005, "All Aboard: The Gold Line-Chinatown to Old Pasadena;" California Redevelopment Association ("CRA") 2005 Legal Issues Symposium, "Implementation of Mixed-Use Projects;" The 2005 CRA Annual Conference: "The Missing Link Between Housing and Retail: Recreating Lost Villages from the Urban Core to Suburbia;" USC Law School Institute - LACBA Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium presentations entitled "Strategies to Add Value by Increasing Density and Reconfiguring Retail, Office and Residential Operating Assets" and "The Evolution of Retail - Gorillas in the Mist;" League of California Cities and CRA on "Understanding and Responding to Redevelopment Politics and Policymaking;" the International Council of Shopping Centers and the CRA "Brownfields - The Urban Retail Frontier" and a program entitled "Can a Fly Stop a Bulldozer? How to Deal with Traffic, Air Quality, Toxics & Other Environmental Hurdles;" The Lusk Center and USC School of Urban and Regional Planning on The Future of Redevelopment, "What's New in Public-Private Real Estate Developments;" "Gambling as an Economic Development Strategy" for the CRA; USC School of Urban and Regional Planning Guest Lecturer on Critical Issues in Redevelopment Transactions; CRA program entitled "Developer Obligations and Assurances under Disposition and Development Agreements;" USC School of Urban and Regional Planning Guest Lecturer on Legal Context for Public/Private Joint Ventures, Public/Private Partnerships, Mixed Enterprise Planning; Homeowners Association Counseling and Litigation; The California Continuing Education of the Bar Programs on Homeowners Association Counseling and Litigation, Real Property, Secured Transactions and Real Property Sales Transactions; CRA Programs on Brownfields, and their Legal Issues Symposium. Mr. Canzoneri's presentations to real estate professionals, oriented to ground leasing of public land, have included: "Legal Aspects and Special Considerations in the Commercial Development of Public Land" presented to the California Department of Commerce Public Real Estate Revenue Forum; UCLA Extension program entitled "Utilizing the Wealth in California's Public Real Estate through Ground Leasing;" programs on Economic Development, Tax Reform and Land Leasing for the CRA, including "Money, Debt and Taxes - Utilization of Sales and Use Taxes, Land Leasing. | 