Jason Belice, Esq., Shareholder and Managing Partner.

Jason has completed over $9 billion in real estate syndication and fund formation and also has extensive real estate transactional experience, including, but not limited to, complex real estate acquisitions, joint ventures and dispositions and private placements of real estate securities and syndications, including limited liability company, limited partnership, tenant-in-common and Delaware Statutory Trust offerings and fund formations.

Jason has been a corporate and real estate transactional attorney since 1998. He has significant legal experience in all aspects of representing privately and publicly held companies.

Jason’s corporate practice includes domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, private placements of equity and debt, venture capital financings, film and entertainment financings, corporate governance, reorganizations, employment equity and compensation arrangements, entity formation and counseling senior company executives on complex legal and compliance issues.

Jason also has extensive real estate transactional experience, including, but not limited to, complex real estate acquisitions, joint ventures and dispositions and private placements of real estate securities and syndications, including limited liability company, limited partnership, tenant-in-common and Delaware Statutory Trust offerings and fund formations.

Prior to founding Belice, Inc., Jason was (i) a partner at Jackson Tidus, a mid-sized law firm in Irvine, California; (ii) a partner and the Chair of the Corporate and Securities Group at Raines Feldman, LLP, a mid-sized law firm in Beverly Hills, California; and (iii) a partner at Luce, Forward, Hamilton and Scripps LLP, which, at the time, was San Diego’s largest law firm. He also worked for seven (7) years as a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group at Baker & McKenzie, one of the largest law firms in the world with approximately 65 offices in 35 countries. For two years at Baker, he worked on Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann AG’s joint venture in 50 jurisdictions worldwide creating SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, where he managed and was responsible for the merger and integration aspects of the transaction in South America, Central America and Asia/Pacific.

He has also served as the executive Vice President and General Counsel for a diversified publicly traded private equity holding company with multiple worldwide public and private company holdings and was general counsel of an international bolding company whose interests include oil and gas, wireless networks and infrastructure, wealth management, aviation, professional sports and more. He also co-founded and served as the Chief Operating Officer of a premier luxury jet and helicopter charter service in Southern California. He also served previously as the Director of Business Affairs and General Counsel for Cove Healthcare, Inc.

Significant Transactions

  • Prepared and closed over $9 billion in private placement Regulation D securities offerings.
  • Represents and acts as outside general counsel for a national real estate sponsor that has acquired approximately $5.3 Billion of real estate assets, with over 17 Million square feet under management, across 1,200 properties and diversified across 47 states
  • Represented real estate sponsor that has closed over $3 billion in multi-family, storage and land development properties.
  • Represented private and public companies in negotiating, structuring and closing domestic and international mergers and acquisitions with market values between $1 million to over $1billion.

Education

  • University of San Diego School of Law, J.D. (1997)
  • Cornell University, B.S., Finance (1991)

Published Works

“Do Benefits of Crowdfunding Outweigh Risks” – Daily Journal (July 2012)

Memberships

  • State Bar of California (#194341)
  • American Bar Association

Community

  • Advisory Board of The Salvation Army’s San Diego Metropolitan Corps.
  • Executive Committee Member, The Salvation Army San Diego Los Angeles Metropolitan Corps
  • Chairman of the Property Committee of The Salvation Army San Diego Metropolitan Corps
  • Cornell Club of Los Angeles
  • Fellowship of Christian Athletes