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 Michael L. Meyer retired September 30, 1998 as Managing Partner of the E & Y Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group of Ernst & Young LLP (EYKL) Orange County Office. Having started with Kenneth Leventhal & Company (KL) in Los Angeles in 1963, Mike has been active in the Southern California and national real estate industry for almost 40 years, and he was a key partner in growing the firm to become the largest group of real estate accounting and consulting professionals in the nation. Throughout the various economic and real estate cycles, he filled an important role in Orange County’s fast growing real estate industry, actively consulting with most of the major real estate companies.
As a Managing Partner of EYKL Mike was responsible for overseeing and coordinating client services through a staff of 170. KL was a leading restructuring and RTC consultant, specializing in non-judicial reorganizations and debt modification, determining Derived Investment Value for portfolio dispositions, providing due diligence for portfolio acquisitions and developing business and financing strategies and structures. Mike also headed teams that provided accounting, tax, and consulting to public and private entities, bankrupt estates, master plan community developers, homebuilders, commercial property owners and lenders. Consulting included pre acquisition feasibility analysis, structuring, and financing including community facility district bonds, bank debt, and other financing strategies.
Mike is also a real estate investor and CEO of Michael L. Meyer Company, which is a principal and/or advisor to a select group of real estate entities in providing business, financial restructuring and investment strategies. He also is a Principal in several land and development companies and was a Principal in two firms which acquired $1.6 billion of non-performing real estate bank loans and properties in Japan.
Together with partners, Mike has invested in 10 shopping centers, 7 office buildings, 4 multi-family projects, 6 residential tract developments, 4 residential condominium developments or conversions, 2 public storage properties, 6 land developments; he has also invested in private entities and in funds investing in mortgage-backed securities, mezzanine loans, high yield debt, venture capital and controlling interests in businesses. During the past five years, he and his partners have committed approximately $40 million of equity to fourteen real estate projects, primarily involved with land investment and entitlement, housing and condominium development and office buildings. He also was a partner in entities that invested in several RTC assets or loans including a commercial land development, multi tenant office complex, retail centers, and a residential condominiums project.
For outstanding achievements in the real estate industry and community, Mike was inducted into the California Building Industry Foundation Hall of Fame; he was named the Chapman University Distinguished Research Awardee and he was the recipient of the University of California Irvine Business School Real Estate Program Lifetime Achievement Award. Mike has been honored by the United Way (Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award), City of Hope (Spirit of Life Award), Jewish National Fund (Tree of Life Award), and the American Jewish Committee (Human Relations Award).
Mike is a board member of City National Bank, Paladin Realty Income Properties, Inc., and South Coast Repertory; founder and board member emeritus of the Orange County Forum; he was previously a director of William Lyon Homes, the Building Industry Association Foundation, the Construction Industries Alliance for the City of Hope; chair of the United Way’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society; chair of the Advisory Board of the Real Estate Program and current Executive Advisory Board Member of the UC Irvine Merage Business School Real Estate Program; member of the UC Irvine Chief Executive Roundtable; and President of the Board of The Wellness Community—Orange County. He is also a member of the Urban Land Institute, and American Institute and California Society of Certified Public Accountants.
A native of Omaha, Nebraska and graduate of the University of Iowa, Mike lives with his wife, Nancy, in Laguna Beach and they have four adult children and three grandsons.
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