Real Estate: Consulting Expert Witnesses

Andrew Shedlin, BA, JD, CRX, CLS, CSM, is an acknowledged industry leader in the field of Real Estate Leasing. He specializes in consulting on the Development, Management and Leasing of Shopping Centers & Airports for both developers and retailers. Mr. Shedlin serves as a developer and consultant for dozens of shopping center landlords and tenants. He also has extensive experience in Airport Retail and Restaurants as both landlord and tenant.

Mr. Shedlin has developed or redeveloped more than 35,000,000 square feet of shopping centers as principal or consultant and at all of the top 50 airports in the US, and negotiated more than 15,000 leases as principal, consultant, landlord or tenant (as a business person and attorney), his clients have included dozens of international, national, regional, and local retailers and restaurants. Mr. Shedlin is a longtime member of ICSC’s faculty of the John T. Riordan School for Professional Development and a founding member of ICSC’s CLS Admissions and Governing Committee. He has received the ICSC Trustee’s Distinguished Award, serves on the ICSC Illinois State Committee and was previously NY/NJ state director for ICSC. Mr. Shedlin has taught at both Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Georgetown University Law School and holds a JD from Boston University. He frequently lectures at business schools, law schools, and for industry groups on Shopping Center Leasing, Understanding Leases, and Business Ethics.

Litigation Support - Considered the definitive industry expert in negotiating and interpreting shopping center and airport leases, Andrew Shedlin has worked as an expert on dozens of landlord / tenant disputes involving Interpretation and Enforcement of Leases and Shopping Center Management. He has worked with major law firms in numerous cities throughout the US. His services are available to counsel representing plaintiff and defendant and include written reports, depositions, and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

Background Experience:

• Arlen Shopping Centers - Executive Vice President & Counsel
• Equity Properties and Development Company - Executive Vice President (responsible for leasing and development)
• Previously owned and operated 2 retail businesses
• Facilitated entry of several international retailers into the US market
• Authored several chapters in real estate publications on subjects of leasing and understanding the lease

Gary H. London is a nationally recognized Real Estate Economist, Strategist, and Advisor with decades of experience guiding many of the largest private developers, investors, asset managers, and institutions through complex real estate decisions. As President of The London Group Realty Advisors, he leads a multidisciplinary practice focused on market analysis, development strategy, economic forecasting, and litigation support.

Litigation Support - For over 20 years, Mr. London has served as an expert witness in a myriad of complex real estate-related litigation, offering authoritative analysis, testimony, and strategic insight on behalf of defense and plaintiff. His services include deposition, mediation, and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

• Real Estate Damages - Economic damages, lost profits, project failure analysis, financial impact modeling
• Financial Feasibility and Pro Forma Analysis - Evaluation of development viability, investment feasibility, and project economics
• Market Analysis and Forecasting - Supply/demand studies, absorption analysis, pricing trends, market conditions relevant to legal disputes
• Valuation and Appraisal - Related Matters - Property valuation disputes, highest-and-best-use analysis, development value impacts
• Land Use, Entitlement and Planning Issues - Zoning conflicts, entitlement delays, regulatory impacts, development process standards
• Construction and Development Economics - Delay impacts, cost escalation, development best practices, project management standards
• Real Estate Economics and Financial Analysis - Broader economic interpretation, financial modeling, and industry-standard methodologies

The State of San Diego Real Estate

Gary H. London is an instructor at The Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego School of Business. He also served for 24 years as a lecturer in real estate economics and development at the University of California, San Diego, where he taught graduate-level courses grounded in applied market analysis and feasibility. Mr. London also taught at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, contributing to its nationally recognized real estate programs. Previously, he was West Region Director of Real Estate Consulting for Price Waterhouse and Executive Director of the Goodkin Group.

Mr. London regularly speaks to business and industry organizations. He's also a frequent writer for the San Diego Business Journal and the San Diego Union Tribune.

James D. Wamble, PE, RLS has over 40 years of experience as a Professional Civil Engineer and Registered Land Surveyor. During the course of his career, Mr. Wamble has worked on land planning, land surveying, or civil engineering projects in all counties of the middle and west Tennessee regions, and several counties in east Tennessee. Mr. Wamble has offered litigation support services as an expert witness in cases since 1976. In the last four years, he has testified 10 times in 7 lawsuits. These litigation cases include land planning, land surveying, and civil engineering issues. Mr. Wamble has experience with depositions, trials, hearings, and arbitrations.

Expert Witness Services Include:

Areas of Expertise:

• Civil Engineering: Design of grading, drainage, utilities, roads, lakes, dams, detention basins, parking lots, shopping centers, subdivisions, apartments, condominiums, planned unit developments, specific plans, industrial parks, mobile home parks, mini warehouses, hotels and office building site plans; flood, drainage, and utility studies; low impact design; financial developability and constructability analysis of proposed developments; preparation of cost estimates; assisting clients in setting project budgets; designing projects to contain cost within determined project budget; construction project management, inspection, administration, and processing of contractors’ pay requests
• Land Surveying: Topographic, Route, Land, Boundary, Utilities, Aerial ground control, Engineering design, and Construction Surveys
• Land Planning: Land use/development feasibility analysis, planning and concept design of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal projects; zone change applications; planned unit development and specific plan applications; site selection consultation; and graphic presentations

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