Debra M. Dietrich has broad expertise in the real estate and finance areas.  She represents both lenders and borrowers such as MMA Realty Capital, Inc. (formerly MONY Realty Capital and MONY Life Insurance Company ("MONY"), JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, AXA Equitable, Mercury Capital, Shell Oil, Lucas Development Corporation, Cameo Homes, Standard Pacific, G. Companies Homebuilding, and Coastal Farms Real Estate, in providing and obtaining acquisition, construction, and take-out financing.  She has extensive experience representing lenders and borrowers in connection with workouts, deed-in-lieu transactions, receiverships, foreclosures and bankruptcies.  She formerly served as West Coast regional counsel to the real estate division of MONY, and presently represents several institutional and non-institutional lenders in connection with loan portfolio and asset management.  Ms. Dietrich also represents lenders and real estate developers in connection with the acquisition and sale of real property, acquisition and sale of loan portfolios, unsecured and asset based lending, formation and termination of real estate joint ventures, and property management issues.  She has significant experience as well in the acquisition and development of wind farms, and affordable housing projects, and representation of lenders and non-profit organizations in connection with real estate and finance transactions.

Ms. Dietrich formerly practiced with Latham & Watkins.  She graduated in 1985 from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and also graduated in 1986 with an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Management at the University of California, Berkeley.  She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. degree in Economics in 1982.