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H O LL AND & KNI G HT LLP
800 17th Street NW | Suite 1100 | Washington, DC 20006 | 202.828.5005 ph | 202.955.5564 fax

www.hklaw.com

Jeffrey B. Stern, Esq.
Partner
jeff.stern@hklaw.com

Holland & Knight LLP was formed in 1968. Today, with more than
1,200 attorneys, it is one of the largest law firms in the United
States and one of the 20 largest law firms in the world. The firm has
offices in Anchorage; Atlanta; Austin; Bogotá, Colombia; Boston;
Charlotte; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Houston; London; Los Angeles;
Mexico City; New York; Portland; San Francisco; Stamford; Tysons;
Washington, D.C.; and eight locations in Florida, including Miami,
Orlando, and Tallahassee. Among Holland & Knight's distinguished
attorneys are the late Chesterfield Smith and Martha Barnett, both
former presidents of the American Bar Association.

Holland & Knight attorneys have extensive experience in mergers
and acquisitions in the timeshare industry; project acquisition;
development and legal master planning; drafting of project and
sales documents; federal, HUD and state registrations; exemptions
and other regulatory issues; acquisition, construction, permanent
receivables and securitization financing; management, marketing
and sales issues; zoning and other local real estate issues;
environmental assessments; title work; foreclosures and workouts;
owners association issues; fair housing, CFPB and FTC compliance
management systems, ECOA, ADA, telemarketing and Truth-inLending Act compliance; tax; securities, including IPOs; bankruptcy
and intellectual property. The reach of the firm's timeshare resort
experience extends through all major resort regions of the United
States and includes Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and
Mexico.

Serving the vacation ownership industry since 1973, the firm's
resort development, finance, and vacation ownership practice
consists of partners Jeffrey Stern, Mel Weinberger, Bernie Smith,
Anthony DiResta, Matthew Fontane, Jay Baker, James Voelker, Eric
Pfeifle, Ryan Magee, Stacie Goeddel and Brian McDowell, as well as
Stuart Bloch, William Ingersoll, and a core group of associates and
paralegals.

The firm's attorneys are active in virtually all areas of ARDA, serving
on committees, speaking at conferences, and writing for ARDA
publications. Ingersoll served as ARDA's general counsel for 35
years; Bloch was founding chairman of the ARDA International
Foundation; and Stern is the current chairman of the Federal
Issues Committee. Holland & Knight lawyers also edit the Resort
Development Law Reporter and the State Digest of Land and
Timeshare Regulations, which are leading resources on legal issues
affecting the resort development and finance industries.

This group provides counsel to major vacation ownership industry
developers and lenders and represents a number of major
private equity companies that have entered the industry as well
as Fortune 100 corporations. They include timeshare resorts and
multi-site vacation clubs; second-home, homesite and mixed-use
developments; hotels and condominium hotels; fractional-interest
products and golf courses; ski resorts and country clubs; private
residence clubs and lenders that provide industry financing.

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