An experienced commercial real estate and hotel executive, Ross Greenman is a trusted business leader first and a lawyer second. As Vice President & General Counsel of KSL Resorts, Ross believes his most important job is ensuring that legal matters are always considered within the context of the company’s business priorities. In addition to overseeing legalities across the KSL Resorts portfolio, Ross assists with business development, sourcing and capitalizing on new investment opportunities.

Ross started his career as a big city district attorney arguing in front of juries, but given his passion for travel he has always been a “hotel guy” at heart. On top of working as corporate counsel for an internationally known hotel brand, his prior experience includes several years brokering hotels. Immediately prior to joining KSL Resorts, he was General Counsel and Vice President of Business Development for Vista Investments, a Los Angeles-based hotel owner, operator and developer.

Outside of the office, Ross loves to travel, especially with his wife and two daughters. Ross also enjoys golf and hiking and is an avid CrossFitter. When stationary, he’s a classic movie buff.

I am an experienced senior legal counsel providing sophisticated, strategic general counsel advice and expertise to companies (public, private, and pre-IPO) involved in global businesses, and fast-paced, heavily regulated industries (healthcare, food/beverage, CPG, and real estate). I bring deep expertise in an ever-expanding range of complex commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, intellectual property, marketing, corporate governance, securities, franchising, employment, and risk management issues.

I adept at scaling and optimizing legal teams and partnering with leadership teams and boards to execute strategic initiatives. I leverage sophisticated business knowledge with a creative, strategic legal mindset to anticipate challenges and create practical and innovative solutions.

I am passionate about building strong collaborative relationships and high-functioning legal and cross functional teams, training and coaching professionals and attorneys, and driving change and innovation.

Areas of Expertise: Corporate Governance & Board of Directors Reporting, Shareholder & Investor Relations, Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Commercial Deals, Contract Negotiations, Legal Leadership, Business Leadership, Data Privacy, Intellectual Property, Litigation Management

Primary legal advisor for offices and operations in the East Asia and South Asia-Pacific regions for a large international relief and development organization. Advise on micro-finance operations and regulations, including review of facility agreements from international lenders. Negotiate and draft commercial agreements, including license agreements for company owned intellectual property. Member of the Global Compliance Governance Committee, Risk Management and Safeguarding Committees. Advise regional and HR professionals on employment contracts, investigations, and disputes. Consult on audit, whistleblower, safety and employment related investigations, as well as rollouts of new SOPs.

Lea Ann Fowler operates at the intersection of commercial real estate and finance, helping her clients effectively navigate and redefine today's complex real estate market.

Clients turn to Lea Ann for practical, responsive, and strategic advice related to single and multi-tiered debt and equity financing structures, workouts and restructures of distressed assets, as well as the acquisition, construction, leasing, and sale of a wide range of real estate property types, including office, retail, industrial, mixed use condominium, multifamily, and hospitality.

Combining her industry knowledge with a passion for complex commercial real estate finance transactions, Lea Ann proactively works with financial institutions, institutional investors, and borrowers on the full scope of their real estate issues. From prominent commercial lending institutions to real estate developers and private equity firms, Lea Ann's dexterity and hands-on approach benefit clients in the structuring and negotiation of a broad spectrum of mortgage loan and asset based transactions, involving senior, construction, permanent, and interim loans, multi-property financings, mezzanine financings, and preferred equity investments. With particular experience serving clients with hotel and resort, retail centers, medical offices, and mixed-use real estate assets, Lea Ann has the balanced local and global perspective to help you across the entire property lifecycle.

For three decades, Michael has represented many of the global hospitality and leisure industry’s key players in connection with the development, acquisition, disposition and financing of more than 750 hotel and resort properties on six continents around the globe. He has significant experience in drafting and negotiating complex franchise and management contracts between hotel owners, brand managers, and hotel operators.

Michael’s clients include national lodging REITs, family offices with global hotel holdings, private equity funds, and prominent hotel developers, who routinely call on him to structure some of the hospitality industry’s most challenging transactions. He has also been the lead on hotel projects as part of mixed-use developments, public private partnerships and hotels with significant branded residences components, and led the teams for the acquisition and disposition of numerous hotel portfolios, some including as many as twenty hotels.  

Michael has devoted a significant part of his pro bono service to addressing the real estate and other needs of charitable organizations in the Washington, D.C. area. 

Prior to entering private practice, Michael served for nearly a decade as a senior aide to the late U.S. Congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley, namesake of the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore, where he handled, among other matters, the Congresswoman’s foreign affairs portfolio.