Ted Cominos is an accomplished transactional attorney with
extensive experience establishing, advising (and even managing) international
private investment funds (private equity, real estate and venture capital). He
has approximately 20 years of professional experience and has advised on
hundreds of cross-border commercial real estate, private equity, corporate
finance, debt finance and investment related transactions. He has previously
been an equity partner and ‘Head of International Private Equity’ and/or ‘Chair
of Cross-Border Transactions’ at the USA AmLaw 100 firms of Faegre Baker
Daniels LLP and/or Locke Lord Edwards LLP, an equity partner and the Head of
International Private Equity for the ‘silver-circle’ law firm CMS Cameron McKenna
LLP, and (Regional) Head of Private Equity for the ‘magic-circle’ law firm
Linklaters LLP.
Ted has extensive experience advising international real estate
and private equity investment funds on (i) corporate, management, tax and
capital structures pertinent to the upstream tax-efficient formation and
administration, (ii) terms and conditions of LP / investor rights and
obligations, (iii) due diligence, structuring, financing, acquisition, leasing
and/or development of office, industrial and retail business parks/ malls as
well as medical / healthcare facilities and leisure, hotel-resort and casino
complexes.
Additionally, Ted has extensive expertise in STNL commercial
real estate transactions in the USA, having advised on FIRPTA related capital,
tax and corporate structuring issues, as well as the due diligence and
leveraged acquisition of single-tenant, net-leased commercial real estate
assets on behalf of foreign acquirers.
Throughout his career, he has advised on over one hundred
sale-purchase / M&A transactions with transaction values ranging from hundreds
of millions to billions of USD$.
Ted holds a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the Monterey College
of law, an MBA in International Management from the Middlebury/Monterey
Institute of International Studies, a BA in International Relations from the
University of California at Davis, and has completed the ‘Leadership in
Professional Services’ program at the Harvard Business School as well as the
‘CRE Investment Analysis’ program of Property Metrics.
Ted Cominos is a licensed
attorney in good standing with the State of California and the State of
Illinois bar associations.