Ira Jeffrey Waldman

Ira Waldman has worked on sophisticated real estate finance, workout, and loan enforcement matters since he graduated from law school in 1976 and continues to provide such services. He also has developed an expertise in ground lease development transactions and is in high demand to represent clients on the landlord, tenant, or lender side of a transaction. Mr. Waldman also is the long standing chair of the Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP Opinion Committee and serves on various national bar association opinion committees.

Mr. Waldman graduated from Bates College in 1973 with a BA in Government and from the University of Maine School of Law in 1976. He commenced his career as an in-house real estate lawyer at UNUM in Portland, Maine and joined Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP in January, 1981. Mr. Waldman is an experienced real estate finance and development lawyer with particular expertise in secured real estate finance and ground lease development transactions.

Mr. Waldman is a co-author of the Legal Opinions Chapter in the CEB Book on California Real Estate Finance Practice: Strategies and Forms and the Rent, Expense Allocations, Security Deposits, and Other Payments in the CEB Book on Ground Lease Practice. Among many other professional activities, he is a past chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Real Property Section and a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, where he has been the long time chair of the Public Policy Committee and current co-chair of the Climate Impact Affinity Group. Mr. Waldman is also a member of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform State Acts and in such role has participated in many Uniform Law Commission drafting committees of a variety of real estate acts.