Angela Gonzales

Angela Gonzales serves as general counsel to a range of clients including family offices, high-net-worth individuals, entertainers, real estate developers and companies and investors across a full range of corporate transactional and commercial real estate matters and has significant experience in transactions involving cross-border corporate structuring and operations. 

In her real estate practice, Angela has been involved in all aspects of real estate acquisition, disposition, financing and leasing. Angela frequently negotiates commercial office and retail leases on behalf of start-ups and corporate clients, and advises her family offices and high-net-worth clients in relation to their interests in commercial properties, hospitality, tourist development and private luxury residences. Angela also has extensive experience representing American clients who are buying, selling and developing real estate in Latin America, and serves as a resource to clients navigating the complexities of deals that span both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Angela has further experience representing nonprofit organizations, assisting them in formation, obtaining tax-exempt status, and ongoing management and operations issues. Angela is a past-president and the current general counsel of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association Scholarship Fund, and previously served as a board member and general counsel to MANA de San Diego, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering Latinas through education, leadership development, community service and advocacy.

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

• Counseled the hotel and residential community at El Banco, Nayarit, Mexico. Responsible for negotiation of service agreements; counsel to homeowner association.
• Represented private buyer in purchase of over 1,000 hectares in Jalisco, Mexico for $128 million using Mexican trust (fideicomiso).
• Represented Paladin Realty Partners in a range of strategic transactions including as lender in a series of capital loans totaling over $30 million secured by pledges over ownership interests in various Mexican corporate entities, and several high profile joint ventures.
• Documented the dissolution of joint venture for development of real estate in Mexico, with client retaining ownership of residential real estate projects in Tijuana and Rosarito, Mexico.
• Counseled individuals and family offices in the purchases of luxury real estate in Los Cabos, Puerto Vallarta and other resort destinations in Mexico.
• Represented family office in the purchase of portfolios of various real estate assets, including multi-family and shopping centers, in a series of 1031 tax deferred exchanges in various states including California, Arizona, Ohio and Utah.
• Counseled individual TIC owner of selling interest in various California investment properties.
• Represented sponsor/promoter in private placement and eventual acquisition of multi family properties in Texas.
• Represented California charter school operator in purchase and financing of permanent school site.
• Represented various non-resident aliens in structuring holding entities and purchase of US real estate assets.