Rafael joined Solomon Minton Cardinal Doyle & Smith LLP as a Partner in mid 2010. Rafael began his legal career in 2002 at Loeb & Loeb LLP in Los Angeles. In 2006, Rafael moved to San Diego and joined Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP, where he specialized in real estate and business transactional law. Rafael continues to specialize in these areas and his practice focuses primarily on advising large and medium-sized local and regional companies and entrepreneurs in all transactional aspects of their businesses, with an emphasis on commercial real estate matters. Representative matters include:
- Real estate acquisitions, dispositions, and leasing
- Entity formation and corporate governance
- Purchase and sale of business entities and assets
- Acquisition, development, and construction financing transactions
- Development of a 96-unit senior housing project, involving tax credits and bond, construction, and redevelopment agency financing
- Workout and restructuring of debt secured by mixed collateral
- Negotiation and settlement of pre-litigation business disputes