Experienced in coordinating portfolio transactions across multiple states and sometimes involving multiple regulatory settings, Sean

handles often high-profile projects from concept to completion. He possesses a rare career path that has included service  as a partner and counsel in leading U.S. law firms, as a federal trial and appellate attorney with the Department of Justice, and years working as a corporate general counsel. With this background, Sean is skilled at providing business-oriented solutions rather than    strictly legal approaches to clients' concerns and building productive partnerships. He's often able to steer negotiations and resolve conflicts before they become bigger problems, frequently without the expense of litigation.

Sean regularly works with clients on matters involving:

• Commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions

• Office, multi-family, seniors' housing and mixed-use asset financing and leasing

• Emerging businesses, including formation, corporate governance and initial capitalization

• Regulatory compliance

• Risk mitigation

His career as a general counsel and at the executive level with a number of high-growth businesses has provided Sean insight into the unique concerns that come with building and operating a business. He often serves his clients as an "outside general counsel" and

understands more than most the importance of responsiveness and the need to pivot toward new priorities in order to serve corporate clients. This enables him to quickly assess mission-critical issues and find pragmatic solutions that meet clients' legal and business goals.

Experience

•Created and operated an SEC-registered investment advisory business and served as chief compliance officer and chief operating

officer.

• Handled acquisition or ground-up development of numerous assets, including medical office buildings, medical research and laboratory facilities, and seniors' housing assets for a JV involving a private investment partnership and publicly traded REIT.

• Assisted borrower in financing 32 assisted living and memory care facilities in seven states worth $240 million, including assets assumed with HUD-insured mortgages.

• Negotiated a $183 million bulk financing closing backed by Fannie Mae and secured by projects across 11 states on behalf of a student housing owner-operator.

• Secured $21 million of HUD-insured permanent financing for anm owner-operator of a seniors' housing facility in West Hampton, New

York.

• Represented developer and operator in acquiring and financing a $20 million off-campus student housing project servicing the

University of Arizona.

• Counseled a consumer-packaged goods startup in forming and capitalizing its business, leading to an appearance on Shark Tank

and sales across the United States.

• Managed a number of dispositions for a publicly traded health care REIT, including the sale of skilled nursing facilities in the Northeast

and Midwest U.S.

• Negotiated the acquisition of, and conducted legal due diligence for, a digital application providing the client a new business and revenue source.

Insights

Recognition

• AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

• Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law (2026), The Best Lawyers in America

• John Carroll Society Pro Bono Service Award, Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.

Education

• Georgetown University, Masters, Real Estate Finance and Development, high honors, 2012

• Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1989

• Georgetown University, B.S., International Politics, Walsh School of Foreign Service, 1985

Credentials

• Florida

• District of Columbia

• Maryland

• New York

• U.S. Supreme Court

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

• U.S. Court o f Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

• U.S. District Court, District of Columbia

• U.S. District Court, District of Maryland

• U.S. District Court, Southern District o f New York

• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida

• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida

Memberships and Affiliations