MICHAEL
A. SHIFFMAN
Of Counsel
Practice Groups
Corporate & Business, Real Estate, Wine & Agriculture
Resident Office
1750 Montgomery Street, Ste. 154
San Francisco
, CA 94111
(415) 856-4700
Telephone
(415) 856-0411
Fax
Email:
mshiffman@lanahan.com
Michael A. Shiffman is an experienced and practical business lawyer in charge of the Real Estate Transactions Group. With a long history in business transactions and litigation, Mr. Shiffman now concentrates in the transactional real estate and business arena. Drawing on his experience of owning and operating real estate brokerage firms, he represents brokers for many of their business needs and helps investors with complex matters. He has sourced hundreds of millions of investment dollars for U.S. based businesses and real estate ventures.
Mr. Shiffman is adept in counseling start up businesses of all types. He provides advice on company formation, licenses, trademarks, import, export and off-shore manufacturing, as well as financing strategies. He represents wineries and wine related businesses as general counsel.
Currently, Mr. Shiffman serves as company secretary for Global Wine Company. He formerly served as a Director of a major financial institution being appointed by the Federal Home Loan Bank.
Mr. Shiffman received his L.L.B from Lincoln University, magna cum laude and was class valedictorian and an editor of the Lincoln University Law Review. He has traveled extensively and represented numerous foreign investors for their US operations and maintains strong relationships and friendships in many countries, especially in southeast Asia.
Associations
SlowFood, MALT
Admissions
California Bar
Undergraduate Education
University of Michigan
University of California-Berkeley
Law School
Lincoln University 1973
Other Degrees
California Real Estate Broker (1966)
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