Bio

Richard Mendelson is a Managing Director focusing on the wine industry. He is a winemaker and grape grower himself as well a wine lawyer and director of the Wine Law and Policy Program at UC Berkeley. As a real estate broker and banker, Richard has represented Araujo Estate, Far Niente Wine Estates, Harlan Estate, Grace Family Vineyards, Heitz Cellars, Joseph Phelps Vineyards, Ovid, and Swanson Vineyards, among others. Richard joined North Point in 2019 after working at Houlihan Lokey and FMV Capital. Richard is a graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University, and Stanford Law School.