Lewis G. Feldman

Lewis G. Feldman, a partner in Goodwin Proctor's Business Law Department, is also a member of their National Executive Committee. He serves as the Chair of Goodwin Procter LLP’s Los Angeles offices and heads the firm’s Public/Private Development practice. Mr. Feldman is considered to be among the nation’s leading real estate and public finance attorneys, specializing in structuring, entitling, and executing large-scale financings for real estate industry participants and the public sector.

Mr. Feldman has advised clients on more than $70 billion in debt and equity financings for market-rate and affordable apartments, master-planned residential communities, industrial and manufacturing facilities, urban entertainment centers, primary, secondary and university educational facilities, retail malls, hospitals, mixed-use projects, destination resorts and hotels, brownfield remediation, green building, mitigation banks, transportation projects and all forms of public infrastructure.

Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, he was the managing partner of the Century City office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, where he headed that firm’s National Public Finance Practice and its Los Angeles Real Estate practice.

In addition to the Ziman Center Founding Board, Mr. Feldman is also a member of and serves on the Board of Directors of the the University of Southern California, Lusk Center for Real Estate; the City of Hope Cancer Center Real Estate Industry Council; and the United Way of Greater Los Angeles. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, California's Coalition for Adequate School Housing and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Mr. Feldman also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Carlthorp School.

He holds a J.D. from the University of California at Davis, 1982 (Executive Editor, Law Review), and received a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, 1978 (with highest honors).