JOSEPH M. BRAY

Direct Dial:  (916) 889-8209  •   Direct Fax:  (916) 290-9807  •   JBray@CVMLaw.com

 Transactional
• Leasing and asset management
• Purchase and sale of real estate assets
• Real estate development, land use and construction
• Tax controversies

Education:  University of California, Davis, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, with Honors – 1994; University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Juris Doctor - 1998; University of Salzburg, Anthony Kennedy, Justice of the Supreme Court - 1996 (summer program).

Bar Admission:  California (1998); United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; United States District Court for the Northern District of California and United States Tax Court.  Honor Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Eta Sigma and Phi Sigma Alpha.

Practice History:  Moskowitz & Nixdorf, LLP, Associate;  Panattoni Law Firm - 2000 to 2008; Partner at CVM Law Group, LLP – 2009 to Present.

Practice Highlights:

• Real estate development, land use and construction.   Mr. Bray represents developers in the acquisition, financing, disposition, development, management and leasing of commercial real estate projects. 

• Commercial condominiums and associations.  Mr. Bray has extensive experience in the documentation of common interest commercial subdivisions, CC&R’s, owner’s associations and governing documents, commercial condominiums and condominium plans and easements.

• Zoning and regulatory.  California Subdivision Map Act and Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act.

• Tax.  Internal Revenue Service practice and procedure, tax controversy, offer-in-compromise, tax penalty abatements and audits.