CARLISLE G. PACKARD is chairman of the Nevers, Palazzo, Maddux & Packard Real Estate Law Group. He represents a variety of individual and institutional clients in a broad range of financing, development and investment matters. Carlisle’s practice covers commercial and real estate transactions and public finance, including representation of developers and lenders in real estate-secured tax-exempt financing transactions.

Carlisle writes and speaks for a variety of industry and continuing education organizations. Some published works include "Basic Issues in Hotel Lending," (California Real Property Journal, Winter 1999); and "The Mortgagee's Right to Property Insurance Proceeds," (California Real Property Journal, Fall 2000). Carlisle's recent speaking engagements consist of "He Who Holds the Cash is King" (Los Angeles County Bar Association, September 2004), and "What Happens if I Don't Get That SNDA?" (Los Angeles County Bar Association, November 2005).

Carlisle is a member of the Steering Committee of the Real Estate Finance Subsection of the Real Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Valley Industry and Commerce Association and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society (former member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Chapter). He does pro bono work for adoptive parents.

Carlisle received his B.A. and J.D. from Brigham Young University in 1981 and 1986, respectively, where he was an editor of the Brigham Young University Law Review. Carlisle formerly practiced with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro and Cox, Castle & Nicholson in Los Angeles and was general counsel of East-West Bank, San Marino, California.

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