It is with great pleasure that Reicker Pfau announces that Barton Clemens has joined the firm as a partner. Bart has over 45 years of experience assisting clients in real estate, financial and business transactions. He represents companies through the full life cycle of real estate ownership, including the creation of ownership structures, syndications, due diligence activities, development, operation and disposition. He has represented numerous companies in joint ventures with pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and publicly traded insurance companies. He has extensive experience in all aspects of real estate finance, including CMBS loans, Fannie and Freddie backed loans and life insurance company loans. He represents institution and private lenders and has substantial experience in structuring work-outs of troubled loans for borrowers and lenders. Bart’s approach to real estate and financial transactions is very practical and bottom line oriented. A large number of his clients ask him to function like a principal in their business, negotiating deal points and making cost/benefit analyses.
Bart graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. Prior to joining Reicker Pfau, he was a Partner with Seed Mackall, LLP for 25 years.