MARC L. BENEZRA Email: MarcBenezra@Reish.com Marc Benezra is a partner in the law firm of Reish Luftman Reicher & Cohen and represents public and private entities in a wide variety of commercial matters, with an emphasis on real estate and business acquisitions, dispositions, financing and disputes. Areas of Practice Business Real Estate Professional Experience Representative transactions in which Marc has been involved include the following: Representation of national retail tenant in general real estate matters, including lease buy-out by landlord and arbitration in connection with fair market value determination as to extension option. Representation of publicly traded company in disposition of foundry site. Representation of owner of veterinary hospital in dispute with general contractor. Representation of founder and implementation of health-related registry website. Negotiation of debt and equity investment in master-planned community, including hotel, retail, residential, golf course and membership club. Representation of developer in connection with acquisition, syndication and redevelopment of condominium conversions. Representation of medical supply company in connection with general corporate matters, including Federal Court litigation. Representation of investor in joint ventures with Tenant-in-Common sponsors. Representation of equity partner in connection with joint venture 140-unit residential subdivision in Reno, Nevada. Representation of developer in multi-property assemblage for condominium project. Representation of creator and patent holder in exploitation of mass-market abdominal product. Representation of restaurateurs in acquisition of restaurants, renegotiating existing leases, syndication of investment and licensing of business concept. Representation of limited liability company member in litigation with other limited liability company members. Representation of homebuilder in acquisition and development of, and estate and tax planning relating to, various subdivisions and arbitration relating to specific performance of purchase agreement. Representation of major financial institutions and other lenders in negotiation and documentation of real estate secured loans, including hard-money loans. Representation of buyer in the acquisition of manufacturing concern. Representation of manufacturing concern in attempted acquisition of two competitors. Representation of investors in attempts to acquire a controlling interest in a publicly traded company and in a privately traded company. Marc is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, a member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, on the Advisory Board of the International Real Estate Trade Organization (IRETO) and has served on the Executive Board of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Relations Committee, where he chaired its Israel & World Jewry Commission from 2002 through 2006. He currently sits on the National Board of the UJC/JCPA Israel Advocacy Committee and the Board of the Exceptional Children’s Foundation. Marc is the head of the firm’s Real Estate Department. He was selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer by the Global Strategy Group in its first annual list published in the Los Angeles magazine in February 2004 and its 2006 list published in February 2006 of top area lawyers. Marc has been named to National Register’s "Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals" and to "Madison’s Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals." Education Marc received his J.D. from Hastings College of Law in 1985 after graduating cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981. He received an MBA from UCLA's Graduate School of Management (now the Anderson School) in 1985.