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| Main BioPersonal Bio | Catherine D. Holmes is a senior member of JMBM's Global Hospitality Group® and of JMBM's Financial & Investment Services Group. She has practiced law at JMBM for 27 years. Within the Global Hospitality Group, Cathy specializes in resort and urban mixed-use developments, hotel management and franchise agreements, resort and hotel purchase and sale transactions, and hospitality asset workouts. Within the Financial & Investment Services Group, Cathy focuses on business formations for entrepreneurs, private securities offerings, structuring and offering of private investment funds, and business and regulatory matters for investment advisers, securities broker-dealers, insurance agents, mortgage banks, mortgage brokers, consumer finance lenders, real estate brokers, accountants, attorneys and banks.
Representative Experience
- Assisted owner of 1,500+ room convention hotel with complex RFP process involving major hotel brands and negotiating a favorable management agreement
- Assisted multiple resort owners to structure mixed use condo hotel projects and prepare CC&Rs, unit maintenance agreements, unit rental agreements
- Assisted U.S. based hotel brand and management company with resort developments in Mexico, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama and Egypt
- Assisted multiple condo hotel owners to structure offerings in compliance with SEC requirements
- Assisted national and regional insurance and investment advisory companies in developing new pension and health benefits programs
- Assisted national securities brokerage firm to acquire regional broker businesses
- Assisted regional mortgage broker in development of mortgage loan alliance program for outside professional advisors
- Assisted multiple hedge fund managers in development of new onshore and offshore hedge funds
- Assisted multiple accounting firms in acquiring or forming investment advisory groups
Recent Papers:
- What Every Investment Adviser and Broker-Dealer Representative Needs to Know About ERISA (November 2007)
- Executive Summary of Structural and Legal Issues Related to Development of Condominium Hotels (November 2006)
- Regulating Condo Hotels: Bad Condo Hotel Ordinances Will Discourage Good Projects; published April 2006 edition of Urban Land
- Accountants' Alliance Programs for California Residential Mortgage Lending: Understanding the Alternatives and Avoiding the Pitfalls (November 2002)
- Essential Decisions for Business Formation and Admission of New Investors (October 2002)
- Alliance Programs Between Attorneys and Financial Service Providers: Licensing and Ethical Issues (July 2002)
- California Licensing and Compliance Issues Related to Real Estate, Lending, Loan Brokering and Sale of Business Opportunities by California CPAs or Their Affiliates (June 2001)
Most people don’t know that I have been at JMBM since it began.
The word that best describes me is ‘focused.’
If I weren’t a lawyer, I’d be a teacher, just like my mother. |
| Education | J.D., 1977, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley B.A., 1974, University of California, Berkeley Phi Beta Kappa | | Practices | Corporate, Global Hospitality Group®, Securities, Family Office, Broker-Dealer/Investment
| | Industries | Broker-Dealer/Investment Management, Hospitality
| | Associations |
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business Law Section, Executive Committee, 2004-2007
- State Bar of California, Business Law Section
- State Bar of California, Consumer Financial Services Committee, Business Law Section, 1993-1996
- Board of Directors of the Boalt Hall Alumni Association, 2003-2007
- Sandpipers (a women’s community organization for the South Bay region of Southern California)
- Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), Los Angeles Chapter
| Awards &
Recognition |
- Legal Intern to Justice Frank Richardson, California Supreme Court, 1977
- Principal research assistant to Professor Richard M. Buxbaum for Corporations Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition, 1977
- Associate Editor, California Law Review, 1976-77
- Listed, Los Angeles Magazine's Southern California Super Lawyer, 2009-2010
| Speaking
Engagements |
- Panelist, Century City Chamber of Commerce, "Getting What You Want: Successful Negotiating in Challenging Economic Times", June 25, 2009, Los Angeles, California
- Speaker, JMBM Meet the Money Conference May 11, 2006, Los Angeles, California
- Speaker, National Regulatory Service Annual Compliance Conference April 18-19, 2006, Palm Springs, California
- Speaker, JMBM Hotel Developer's Conference March 8-9, 2006, Palm Desert, California
- Speaker, JMBM Hotel Developer's Conference March 7-8, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Chair, Women Lawyers of Interlaw/Western Hemisphere Annual Conference (October 2004)
- Speaker, National Regulatory Service Basic Training for Investment Advisers—What Every Investment Adviser and Broker-Dealer Representative Needs to Know About ERISA (annual program lead presenter 2004-07)
- Los Angeles County Bar Association–36th Annual Securities Regulation Seminar: Counseling Companies in a Crisis (October 2003)
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