FAX: 714.513.5130
Orange County
650 Town Center Drive
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Costa Mesa, CA 92626
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Brent R. Liljestrom
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Brent Liljestrom is a partner in the Finance and Bankruptcy and Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental Practice Groups in the firm’s Orange County office.
Areas of Practice
Mr. Liljestrom's areas of specialization include all aspects of real property finance, real property purchase and sale transactions, loan workouts and restructurings. The primary emphasis of his practice is the representation of construction and permanent lenders in real estate secured loan transactions. He also has extensive experience representing banks as credit-enhancers of both taxable and tax-exempt bond financings, including low-income housing bonds and industrial revenue bonds.
Mr. Liljestrom represents buyers and sellers of commercial and industrial properties (including several foreign investors), as well as national banks, local and regional banks and other institutional lenders.
Education
- J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981
- B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1977
Recent Representative Matters
Representation of Comerica Bank as Administrative Agent/Lead Lender of $45,000,000 syndicated credit to a public homebuilder joint venture financing construction of 360 homes in Northern California.
Representation of Bank of America as issuer of credit-enhancement letters of credit to support bond issue for construction of multiple building seniors apartments in Northern California.
Represented commercial bank on loan workout/restructure of seven different facilities (including a California Bond facility, an Arizona Bond facility and various lines of credit) secured by five commercial properties located in California and Arizona.
Representation of Wells Fargo Bank as Administrative Agent/Lead Lender in syndicated $44,340,000 Tax-exempt Revenue Bond issue to finance construction of facilities for private high school in Orange County, California.
Representation of U.S. Bank as issues of credit-enhancement letters of credit to support bond issue for facilities to be occupied by non-profit Foundation.