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Phone: 510.834.6600
Fax: 510.808.4643
E-mail: GAnkenman@wendel.com

Practice Areas

Experience

Gregg is chair of the firm's transactional department and possesses extensive experience in real estate and business transactional work, including commercial real estate leases, sales, exchanges, and financing. He has handled hundreds of commercial lease transactions for retail, office, industrial, agricultural, and telecommunications sites. Gregg also advises developers, landlords and property owners in connection with sales, acquisitions, development, property management, and financing matters. He has counseled clients, including jewelry store chains, restaurants, fitness club operators and manufacturing companies, in numerous real estate asset and business acquisitions. Gregg is also a frequent author, speaker and panelist for industry and bar association groups.

Admissions

  • State Bar of California

Affiliations

  • National Retail Tenants Association
    • General Counsel, 1998 to present
    • Ethics Committee; chair, 2002 to present
    • Program Committee, Annual Conference; member, 1998 to present
    • Western Regional Conference; co-chair, 1998
  • State Bar of California
    • Real Property Section; member, 1988 to present
  • Alameda County Bar Association
    • Real Property Section; member, 1988 to present; board of directors, 1995 to 2000
    • Legislation Committee and Delegation to California State Bar Conference of Delegates, 1988 to 1998; chair, 1992 to 1994

Publications

  • Retail Leasing, California Continuing Education of the Bar, chief consultant and contributing author
  • Office Leasing, California Continuing Education of the Bar, contributing author
  • California Real Estate Finance Practice: Strategies and Forms, California Continuing Education of the Bar, contributing author
  • Handling Real Property Sales Transactions Action Guide, California Continuing Education of the Bar, contributing author

Presentations

  • International Council of Shopping Centers
  • National Retail Tenants Association
  • Alameda County Bar Association
  • California Continuing Education of the Bar

Awards/Recognitions

  • National Retail Tenants Association, Founder's Service Award 2005

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law; J.D. (1988)
  • Brigham Young University; B.A. Economics, magna cum laude, Phi Kappa Phi (1984)

Favorite quote: "Yeah, but can they draft a lease?"
-- David Wendel (while watching ironworkers precariously perched on steel framing of a high-rise building)