Kenny Tamura is a member of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group in Los Angeles. Mr. Tamura focuses his practice on real estate acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, joint ventures, secured real estate finance, and tax credit finance.

As a member of the real estate finance and tax credit practice groups, Mr. Tamura has represented institutional lenders, tax credit investors, community development entities and borrowers in traditional real estate-secured financing, New Markets Tax Credit transactions, Historic/Rehabilitation Tax Credit transactions and LIHTC transacti s. He has also represented real estate owners and operators in drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, leases, and joint venture agreements.

Mr. Tamura was recognized as “One to Watch” by Best Lawyers in 2022-2025 for his work in Project Finance Law and Real Estate Law. Additionally, in 2024, Super Lawyers Magazine recognized Mr. Tamura as a “Rising Star.”

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• Loyola Law School
• New York University

Significant Accomplishments
<ul><li>Represented a landlord of a multi-tenant office building in drafting and negotiating leases.</li><li>Represented a national banking institution as New Markets Tax Credit investor and CDE in $51 million financing of the construction of a medical campus in San Francisco, California.</li><li>Represented a leverage source lender in the New Markets Tax Credit financing of a retail shopping center in Oakland, California.</li><li>Represented a national banking institution as tax credit investor in a combined New Markets Tax Credit and Historic Tax Credit financing of a community center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</li><li>Represented a Historic Tax Credit investor in the financing of the rehabilitation of historic buildings located in Augusta, Georgia into a data center.</li><li>Represented a national banking institution as LIHTC investor in the financing of two low-income housing projects located in Tempe, Arizona and Phoenix, Arizona.</li><li>Represented a lender in documenting and negotiating of a $54.8 million loan secured by twelve different properties located in three separate states.</li><li>Represented a lender in the $29 million financing of construction of a new hotel located in Redondo Beach, California.</li><li>Represented a lender in a $58 million mixed collateral financing secured by thirty-three properties.</li><li>Represented a lender in a $25 million revolving line of credit loan secured by over twenty properties located across fifteen states.</li></ul>

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