More than twenty years’ experience in real estate law. Broad expertise in managing complicated real estate transactions.
Amy Diaz provides strategic counsel for real estate investors in acquisitions, dispositions, and large-scale commercial leasing nationwide. Amy also represents private and municipal developers in master-planned communities and guides clients through complex development issues and negotiations with regional and national builders.
She represents commercial borrowers in connection with senior, mezzanine, construction and permanent loans secured by real and personal property. In her lending practice, she also represents commercial banks and other investors. Working with clients on diverse issues, Amy understands her client’s business needs, anticipates problems and identifies solutions.
Before returning to the firm, Amy spent several years as deputy general counsel and VP and managing counsel for CoBank, ACB, a national agricultural credit bank. As in-house counsel at CoBank, Amy managed the documentation and regulatory compliance of secured agribusiness loans to farmer-owned cooperatives, rural electric distribution, water and communications services. She oversaw corporate matters, including the build-to-suit lease and loan documentation for CoBank’s new 276,000-square-foot headquarters. Amy also served as general counsel for Western New Mexico University while at Brownstein. Prior to joining Brownstein, Amy was an in-house attorney in the Office of University Counsel at the University of Colorado.