Meet Lee Mackay:

Lee Mackay represents private and institutional clients, including investment funds and family trusts, throughout the United States in a broad range of commercial real estate, financing, development, and investment matters. Focused on all aspects of commercial and residential leasing, acquisitions and dispositions, and management of real property, Lee represents both tenants and landlords connected to such properties as multifamily apartments, strip malls, office buildings, and unimproved land located throughout the United States. Lee works with institutional lenders as credit-enhancers and purchasers of taxable and tax-exempt bonds, and he advises developers in real estate-secured and tax-exempt financing transactions. Lee also has extensive experience advising clients in connection with preferred equity investments in multifamily projects behind Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac financing.

Lee earned his J.D. from The University of California at San Francisco in 2004, where he was a Justice Wiley Manuel Scholarship recipient, and won first place in the Evan A. Evans National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition. He earned his B.A. in Economics with minors in History and Political Science form The University of California at Los Angeles in 2001. Lee has guest lectured on commercial leasing at Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business since 2018.

Lee helped start Young Investors Society (“YIS”), a global financial literacy charity, in 2015, which teaches investment fundamentals to high school age youth. He has served on the executive board and general board of YIS since it’s inception.

In his spare time, Lee enjoys spending time with his family and friends freediving and spearfishing at the Channel Islands, as well as up and down the Baja California peninsula. Lee is fluent in Spanish.