PROFESSIONAL

    Managing Partner, Demetriou, Del Guercio, Springer & Francis, LLP 801 South Grand Ave, 10th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90017

    Admitted to California Bar 1986

    Practice area - corporate and real estate transactional law

 

EDUCATION

      J.D., University of Southern California, Order of the Coif (1986)

      A.B., University of Southern California, Magna Cum Laude (1983)

 

ACADEMIC HONORS

      Recipient, University of Southern California Law Center, 1986 Law Alumni Award (for graduating with the highest scholastic average in the law school class).

      Recipient, University of Southern California Law Center, 1985 Alfred I. Mellenthin Award (for attaining the highest scholastic average in the first two years of the law school class).

      Staff Member, Southern California Law Review (1985).

      Phi Beta Kappa (1982).

 

BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE

            Mr. Del Guercio is a highly respected transactional attorney.  His corporate transactional practice includes formation of business entities and the acquisition and divestiture of business entities and assets.  His real estate transactional practice includes representing both public and private clients in connection with substantial real property development, redevelopment, purchase, sale, lease, and financing transactions.  These transactions involve complex land use, planning and zoning issues, environmental issues, economic development and finance, redevelopment projects, water and mineral rights, joint use and mixed use developments, public/private partnerships, owner participation agreements, disposition and development agreements, Government Code § 65864 development agreements, acquisitions in lieu of the exercise of eminent domain powers, infrastructure agreements, cooperation agreements and remediation and other environmental-related agreements. 

 

LEGAL PUBLICATION

      "Boot Distributions in Acquisitive Reorganizations: The Wright-Shimberg Controversy," 59 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1295 (1986) (cited with approval in Clark v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 828 F .2d 221 (4th Cir. 1987), affirmed by the United States Supreme Court)

 

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

      Council member, City of La Caņada Flintridge (2001 - Present)

      Mayor, City of La Caņada Flintridge (2003 - 2004)

      Legal Committee Chairman and Executive Board Member, California Contract Cities Association (2003 - 2005)

      Director, Los Angeles County Sanitation District Nos. 28 and 34 (2001 - Present)

      Member, Southern California Association of Governments, Arroyo Verdugo Subregion, Steering    Committee (2003 - 2004)

      Planning Commissioner, City of La Caņada Flintridge (1999 - 2001)

      Administrative Hearing Officer, City of La Caņada Flintridge Planning Department (1999 - 2001)