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Prior to founding Adishian Law Group, P.C., Chris began his career as a tax professional in Arthur Andersen's San Francisco office. Seeking entrepreneurial challenges, he departed Arthur Andersen after two years and served as a financial consultant to Paymap.com's (formerly Aegis Mortgage Acceleration, later acquired by First Data) senior management during its start up phase. Following Paymap.com, Chris joined Montgomery Securities - then the nation's leading investment bank for growth companies - as a Corporate Finance Associate on the hospitality/real estate team. At Montgomery, he gained "domain expertise" in the U.S. and Canadian hospitality/real estate markets, working on public market financings and mergers and acquisitions for REITS, hotel owners and operators, management companies, timeshares, golf and cruise lines, as well as the technology and software companies serving the hospitality/real estate industries. Representative completed transactions include the sale of a 46 hotel portfolio and the initial public offering (IPO) and follow-on offering of Pegasus Systems (subsequently taken private in 2006).
Montgomery itself changed hands twice by late 1998 (first when acquired by NationsBank, and then when NationsBank acquired Bank of America). Montgomery became Bank of America's investment banking arm. Rather than seek another corporate opportunity, Chris decided it was time to pursue his own entrepreneurial visions.
In 1999, he created what is today Adishian Capital with the launch of an Internet distribution company, added financial advisory services in 2002 and real estate brokerage / property management in 2007. In late 2003, he founded Adishian Law Group.
Education and Professional Associations
Chris graduated with a degree in Mathematical Economics from U.C. Berkeley with a minor in Business Administration from Haas School of Business. While at Berkeley, Chris had two economic courses with Professor Laura D'Andrea Tyson, and internships at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. Also as an undergraduate at Berkeley, he was also fortunate to take a real estate course populated with MBAs and law students that was taught by Marvin Starr, co-author of the seminal treatise on California Real Estate Law, Miller & Starr California Real Estate.
At Loyola Law School, he was a Dean's Scholarship Recipient, a member of the Phi Delta Phi Honor Society, served as an extern for a Federal District Court Judge (Central District California) and also served as an extern for a California Supreme Court Justice.
He is a lifetime member of the California Alumni Association, a Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) alumnus and a member of the Olympic Club. He is a past or current member of the San Francisco Bar Association, and the Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Century City, Santa Monica and South Bay Bar Associations within Los Angeles.
Other
Chris has lived in California since 1978 (with over 15 years in the Bay Area). He grew up playing just about every sport that had a bat, ball, pole, stick, net, glove or racquet; starting with hockey, skiing and fishing when he was a young child. Today, he enjoys traveling, basketball, softball, hiking, photography, backgammon and sharing time with his family and friends. He has been fortunate to travel extensively, throughout the United States and internationally, including Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Australia, Bali (Indonesia), Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, Switzerland and Turkey.
He has hiked to the top of Yosemite's Half Dome, Oahu's Diamond Head, Wayna Piccu (located in Peru's Machu Picchu National Park) and has also hung out in a shark cage 3 miles off of Oahu's North Shore while on vacation.
He regularly donates his time and expertise to charitable and community organizations located throughout California
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