Overview
Christian Dubois is a real estate transactional attorney who focuses on affordable housing and mixed-income residential real estate projects.
Christian’s experience allows him to represent both for-profit and non-profit developers of affordable housing projects in residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects funded by tax-exempt multifamily housing revenue bonds, federal low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs) under Internal Revenue Code Section 42, state low-income housing tax credits, state, county and city loans and grants, and various other types of public financing. Christian is also an authority on California’s welfare exemption from property tax under California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 214(g). In addition to his extensive experience with projects in California and other western states, Christian has focused much of his practice on low-income housing tax credit deals in the State of Hawai’i, having closed multiple deals across the islands of Oahu, Maui and Hawai’i with various federal, state and county financing sources. Developers rely on Christian’s ability to close complicated affordable housing projects, as well as his expertise in structuring tax credit and bond financings with multiple sources of debt and equity.
Broad Real Estate Industry Experience
Christian has extensive experience in affordable housing, as well as mixed-used and mixed-income projects, having represented developers in the financing, acquisition, development, rehabilitation, and disposition of tens of thousands of units throughout California, Colorado, Hawai’i and several other states. He is sought out by developers to structure complex real estate-secured transactions and to negotiate and document purchases, sales, joint ventures, and debt financings.
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Professional Affiliations
State Bar of California
California Council for Affordable Housing, Board of Directors
Practice Areas
Real Estate Sectors
Bar & Court Admissions
- State Bar of California
Education
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 2006, Senior Editor, UCLA Law Review
B.A., Harvard College, 1996, cum laude