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E. Knudsen practices primarily in the areas of real
development, financing leasing, construction and property
management. His past and present clients include property
owners, real estate development companies, real estate
development and construction lenders including banks
and private lenders, property management companies, private
investors, agricultural lenders, real estate brokerage
companies, a hospital and a golf course developer in
a variety of commercial, shopping center, industrial
and office projects. Mr. Knudsen also has represented
private developers and lenders in numerous redevelopment
district projects and joint ventures with institutional
pension fund investors.
Prior to moving to Riverside in 1989, Mr. Knudsen practiced
in Denver, Colorado for several years as a real estate
attorney with an emphasis on retail and shopping center
development and financing. He later served as in-house
counsel for a commercial development company handling acquisitions,
sales, development and property management matters as well
as business transactions among investor partnerships.
Mr. Knudsen has served on the local chapter Board of Directors
of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties
(NAIOP) and the Building Owners and Managers Association
(BOMA), as well as the Inland Empire Economic Partnership,
and has been a lecturer for BOMA, NAIOP, University of
California-Riverside International Law Program, the Senior
Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) small business program
and the Riverside Board of Realtors. His community service
involvement includes providing pro bono legal services
to the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce and the Junior
League of Riverside. He is a graduate of the Leadership
Riverside program and has served as president of the Riverside
Community Hospital Foundation Executive 2000 program and
president and city director of the Riverside National Junior
Basketball program.
Mr. Knudsen received a Juris Doctor degree from University
of South Dakota in 1978. He was admitted to practice in
South Dakota in 1978, Colorado in 1979, and California
in 1989. Following graduation from law school, Mr. Knudsen
served a law clerk for Justice Robert Morgan of the South
Dakota Supreme Court and Judge Edwin Van Cise of the Colorado
Court of Appeals. |
