The 20 Rising Stars of Real Estate 2008 - (Page 17) Within 10 years, she hopes to have made partner and to have developed more of a reputation in Los Angeles in real estate law. Hvolka has served as co-chair of the Real Estate Finance Subsection of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Real Property Section from 2004 to 2006 and has been elected to serve as co-vice president of membership for Commercial Real Estate Women, Los Angeles, on whose board she sits and for which she has conducted a seminar. Jackson structures and executes equity investments for Jackson Oats Shaw, which he founded in 2001. Since the company’s inception, he has overseen the completion of 31 acquisitions, assembling a diversified portfolio of income-producing properties valued at more than $1 billion. Jackson’s biggest challenge was starting his company and growing it to an operating company with 40 employees. “I started the company with nothing - no clients, no office, no capital, just a vision,” he said. “Within a couple of years, I was able to attract talent and equity clients.” In 2004, he completed a transaction that involved allocating private equity to build a diversified, income-producing portfolio of properties throughout Atlanta. “I built the company around that assignment, ultimately completing more than 30 acquisitions,” he noted, adding that the portfolio continues to provide cash-oncash returns. Jackson began his career at Penn Florida Capital, a Boca Raton, Fla.based real estate investment company, where he co-directed its leasing initiatives. In 1997, he took a position as director of leasing at Lincoln Property, a national owner and developer of office 9. DIANE HVOLKA structure that involves multiple parties and lease agreements. “It’s a major milestone that we’ve gotten the documents executed,” Hvolka said. The land on which the first phase will be constructed is owned by the County of Los Angeles, which leased the land to the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles.The agency subsequently sub-leased it to the Los Angeles Grand Avenue Authority, which in turn re-subleased the land to the developer, The Related Companies. Hvolka believes there is a trend in southern California toward more mixed-use developments like the Grand Avenue project, of which she already is seeing more. Other projects on which she has done legal work include negotiating and closing on the sale of the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego and the purchase of more than 40 acres of vacant land in El Segundo, Calif. She also negotiated various loan agreements, including a $240 million construction loan for a high-rise building in Irvine, Calif. Hvolka said she became interested in real estate in college when she had the opportunity to work with real estate brokers. She also has familial influences, noting that her grandfather was a general contractor and an uncle is a real estate broker. MARCH 2008 10. SCOTT JACKSON Chairman and CEO Jackson Oats Shaw Corporate Real Estate, Atlanta Age: 39 Education: Florida Atlantic University (B.B.A. in Real Estate Investment and Finance) Mentors: John Lawrence, Founder and President, Penn Florida Realty 10 . SCOTT JACKSON REAL ESTATE RISING STARS 17
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