Overview
Brad is a trusted advisor on transformative real estate and business transactions, uniting cross border strategy, incentives, and stakeholder engagement to deliver durable outcomes for growth stage and global enterprises.
Brad is a seasoned attorney and trusted advisor serving as a Partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as Global Co-Leader of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. He specializes in guiding companies—large and small—through complex business transactions using both his legal acumen and the relationships he has created by investing over 30 years volunteering his time on important community initiatives.
Brad has extensive experience representing Taiwanese and other Asia-Pacific (APAC) companies in establishing and expanding their facilities, operations, and workforce in Arizona and across the United States. Leveraging his deep expertise in economic development, real estate development, and policy, he helps international clients navigate regulatory, site selection, incentive, and community integration challenges to successfully locate manufacturing plants, mixed-use projects, and employee communities in the region.
His career spans roles as in-house general counsel and private practice attorney, where he has driven high-stakes initiatives—including real estate developments, infrastructure projects, and crisis management—to successful outcomes. Brad’s leadership in economic development is evidenced by his service on the Executive Board of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC), a key organization focused on attracting and supporting foreign direct investment, including major APAC-based projects in advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Brad was also on the team that founded the Greater Maricopa Foreign Trade Zone in Western Maricopa County, Arizona.
Brad was a two-term Governor’s appointee and past Chairman of the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority, Chairman of the Arizona Organizing Committee for the 2016 College Football Playoff Championship Game, and board member of the Phoenix Local Organizing Committee for the 2017 NCAA Final Four. He has been appointed by multiple Governors to various boards and commissions in Arizona. He has also served on boards of various for-profit and nonprofit organizations in paid and unpaid capacities.
Brad received his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, and his B.S. in Accounting from Illinois State University. Brad combines legal acumen, strategic relationships, and proven leadership to deliver results for clients pursuing growth in Arizona and the U.S.
Experience
Representative Work
Real Estate
- Represented the owner of 16,000 low-income housing units with all tax credits, acquisitions, dispositions, financings and limited partnership restructurings across the US.
- Represented a large biotechnical company on its acquisition of a $60 million commercial office building from a municipal seller.
- Represented a private university on a “swap” of college campuses with the satellite campus of a large state university.
- Represented the owner of a golf course portfolio of eight courses on its operational and transactional legal matters, including the eventual disposition of its golf courses.
- Representing the largest public utility company in Arizona on various real estate and public policy matters, including economic development related to Arizona State Trust Land matters.
- Represented the nation's largest owner of residential real estate in various disposition, acquisition and related transactions.
Education
- Represented the largest Arizona-based charter management organization on the finance, land acquisition and entitlement of multiple new schools.
- Represented another large Arizona-based charter management organization in the site selection and land acquisition for the development of a new school in Surprise, Arizona.
- Represented the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority in the negotiation of funding for the construction of spring training facilities for the Cincinnati Reds in Goodyear, Arizona, the Milwaukee Brewers spring training facility in Phoenix, Arizona, and the Oakland A’s spring training facility in Mesa, Arizona.
*Certain experiences occurred prior to joining Dorsey
Professional & Civic
Professional Achievements
- Board Member, Arizona Zanjeros (2015 – Present)
- Executive Committee Member, Greater Phoenix Economic Council (2014 – Present)
- Executive Committee Member, AZ Chamber of Commerce (2016 – Present)
- Board Member, Valley Partnership (2000 – Present)
- Board Member, Greater Maricopa Foreign Trade Zone (2012 – Present)
- Board Member, Paradise Valley Country Club
