Bio

Nancy Park has a varied real estate, finance and business background, which includes serving as CEO for a private developer, giving her a unique insider’s perspective that allows her to relate to her clients. Nancy’s approach is to learn and understand the business or entity she advises so that she can provide practical business and legal counsel as a trusted advisor. Nancy is a partner and the Best Best & Krieger LLP Business practice group leader. Based in Sacramento, she works with clients in both the private and public sector, focusing on real estate transactions, leasing, finance and business contracts. Nancy represents real estate entities, lenders and borrowers, landlords and tenants, and large and small businesses, as well as agricultural and healthcare entities. Some of her private clients include institutional asset managers, pension fund advisors, developers, agricultural product processors, ranch owners, manufacturing facilities, movie/television studios, international and regional banks, and nature conservancies. Public clients include cities, counties, special districts, joint powers authorities and hospital districts, among others. Her practice includes real estate leasing (office, industrial, retail, mixed use, special purpose and ground leases), acquisitions, finance, development and joint ventures as well as property tax appeals and tax exemptions. Nancy also forms partnerships and limited liability companies, handles related corporate matters, and acts as corporate general counsel. Nancy started her career with more than 10 years of experience as a commercial real estate lender for several community banks. Immediately prior to joining BB&K, Nancy was the CEO of The Evergreen Company, a veteran Northern California developer of retail and office projects. As CEO, she handled financing, general counsel, administrative and joint venture matters. Nancy was also a transactional real estate attorney with McDonough Holland & Allen PC from 2000 to 2006. Prior to that, she was an investment officer for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). In that capacity, she was responsible for investing $1.8 billion in real estate assets, formulating policy and investment strategies, and negotiating and restructuring several major contracts for more than $1 billion in timber assets. Nancy has been involved in the Sacramento community as a volunteer leader for both Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts for more than 20 years. For over 10 years she has been a mentor/leader at Camp CEO, the Bay Area Girl Scouts’ camp for at-risk girls. She is a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent peer review rated attorney.