Education

Southwestern School of Law, J.D., SCALE 1977

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, B.A., 1974

Bar Admissions

California

Nevada

Court Admissions

U.S. Supreme Court

9th Circuit Court of Appeals

All U.S. District Courts, California and Nevada

Affiliations

California State Bar, Business Law Section

Bar Association of San Francisco, Commercial Law Section

Mortgage Bankers Association

Keith A. Kandarian

Contact information:

Shareholder

kkandarian@weintraub.com

T: 415.772.9620

F: 415.433.3883

Practice Areas

• Commercial Lending and Secured Transactions
• Corporate
• Corporate Growth and Governance
• Corporate Securities
• Private Equity and Venture Capital

As a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate group, Keith helps individuals find solutions to their business matters, and represents corporations, partnerships and limited liability entities in formation, operations, expansion, dissolution, and related transactions.

Before our merger with Tobin & Tobin, Keith practiced with that firm for over 30 years, assisting clients in diverse business-related transactions and occasional litigation. He has helped clients form and operate small businesses, and to raise capital through private debt and equity offerings, and represented medium and larger-sized institutions in corporate and commercial litigation and secured lending.

Financial institutions and real estate finance companies are Keith’s primary clients, but he also counsels officers, directors, and investors in other public and private companies in securities and other commercial ventures, and advises directors on fiduciary duty and disclosure issues, and with respect to operations, regulatory compliance, and supervisory procedures. He also works with Trustees and other fiduciaries in Trust Administration and related projects.

With other members of the Corporate group, Keith represents issuers of mortgage-backed securities and originators and sellers of prime residential mortgage loans in mortgage debt securitizations, repurchase agreements, mortgage loan warehousing, syndicated financing facilities, and other secured financing.

A prominent feature of Keith’s practice is his representation of a privately-owned corporation operating as a Mortgage Real Estate Investment Trust, and as counsel to its affiliate, a large, also privately owned, limited partnership that originates, services, and sells residential mortgage loans nationwide.

Keith also handled the following representative matters:

• recently served as counsel to a Special Litigation Committee formed to investigate and report on allegations of breaches of fiduciary duties and excess executive compensation in a shareholder derivative action.

• managed projects such as transforming a private real estate investment company to a widely-held company operating as a Real Estate Investment Trust, and registering it with the SEC as a publicly-reporting company, and has assisted clients in registering equity and employee benefit plans, and in negotiations to avoid proxy contests and other conflicts.

• litigated more than enough jury and non-jury business-related cases at most levels of state and federal courts, including substantial litigation and transactional work as counsel to a San Francisco Superior Court Receiver in a marathon partnership dissolution, touching on issues of accounting, condemnation, foreclosure, purchase and sale, financing, and re-development of several Bay Area properties.

• served as counsel for the prevailing parties in the reported cases of: The Society of California Pioneers v. Roger Baker (1996) 43 Cal.App. 4th 774, involving recovery of a stolen museum artifact; and Nevada National Bank v. Snyder (1992) 108 Nev. 151, involving the priority of a lender’s deed of trust in a failed real estate development.

• recently, and illustrative of another facet of his practice, represented the manager of a notable limited liability company in the windup and distribution of intangible and intellectual property, including global trademarks, copyrights, licensing rights, rights of publicity, and domain name registrations representing the remaining estate assets of music legend Jerry Garcia. During that project, he was trial and appellate counsel in the non-reported case of Deborah Koons Garcia v. Jerry Garcia Estate LLC, et. al., California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, No. A125892 (2010), concerning the scope of judicial review of a private arbitration award, and in which the manager prevailed on all issues.

Prior to entering private practice, Keith was a Law Clerk for the Honorable James A. Brennan, District Judge, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has served on the pro bono panel of the San Francisco Bar Association, and supports Habitat for Humanity in San Francisco, the San Francisco Food Bank, and St. Anne’s Home for the Aged, and other non-profit organizations, also located primarily in San Francisco.