Business and General Corporate:
Advises startup businesses and nonprofit clients on corporate, partnership, real property, nonpublic securities offerings, product licensing and distribution, credit management, purchasing, intellectual property licensing and protection, employment matters, acquisitions or mergers, and the formation of offshore subsidiaries and affiliated companies.

Counsel to computer engineering and service firms, investor-owned utilities, advertising, construction services and supply, food production, printing, real estate brokerage, software design, and trading companies.

Real Estate:
Prepares documentation and negotiated commercial and residential property purchases, sales, leases, development & disposition agreements for public entities, construction finance documentation, and workouts. Represents property owners in construction, title insurance and escrow litigation, land use, unlawful detainer actions, property taxation and zoning matters.

Asset Protection and Management:
Represents and advises individuals, private companies and trusts regarding wealth preservation planning, asset protection, business structuring, and contractual relationships in a transnational context.

Banking:
Drafts commercial loan agreements, letters of credit, reimbursement agreements, loan participation agreements, stock offerings, circulars, warrant agreements, and incentive stock option plans for foreign and state-chartered banks. Conducts negotiation and documentation for major commercial secured credit transactions.

Finance:
Counsel to investment advisory and management firms operating in Hong Kong, Indonesia and Singapore. Acted as underwriter's counsel for purchase and reoffering of 1911 Improvement Act bonds. Represents bondholders in special assessment bond foreclosure actions. Advises school districts on certificates of participation.

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Employment History:

• Founding partner, Chan . Doi . Leal LLP San Francisco, California,
  1992 - present
• Principal, Nichols, Doi, Rapaport & Chan, 1987-1992
• Associate, Nichols, Doi & Rapaport, 1981-1987
• Legislative Aide, Office of U.S. Senator Alan Cranston, Washington, D.C.
• Community Liaison, San Francisco Human Rights Commission,
  1976-1977

B.A., Stanford University, 1976 (Stanford-in-France, 1974)
J.D., School of Law, University of California, Davis, 1981

Admitted to Practice:
State Bar of California, 1981; U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Member, Business Law and Real Property Law Sections, State Bar of California

Member, Bar Association of San Francisco and Los Angeles counties

Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (Co-chairman of Practice Development Committee) and National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

Recipient, "a-v" rating (highest) from the Martindale-Hubbell Rating System

Member, Council of Asian American Business Associations of San Francisco

Member, Advisory Board, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association

Member, Community Advisory Group, California Academy of Sciences

Commissioner, Police Commission, City & County of San Francisco, 2004 - 2006

Northern California "Super Lawyer" (corporate/business), Law & Politics annual survey and San Francisco Magazine, 2004 - 2006

Member, California Small Business Board, 2001-2007

Member of Board of Directors, Chinese American Voter Education Committee, Inc., 1995 - 2005


Commissioner, Board of Permit Appeals, City and County of
San Francisco, 1993 -1996

Member, Mayor's Chinatown Economic Development Group, 1992 -1996 (chairman, 1995)

Commissioner, San Francisco Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Board,
1983 -1987

Member, Assessment Appeals Board, City and County of San Francisco, 1987 - 1993

Assistant to legislative counsel, Department of Real Estate, State of California, 1980

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