Amy J. Diaz

Twenty years’ experience in real estate law. Broad expertise managing complicated industry transactions. Knowledge informed by in-house counsel roles for a national cooperative bank and public university.

Amy Diaz provides strategic counsel for both developers and investors on acquisitions and dispositions for commercial development and large-scale commercial leasing. She also represents commercial borrowers in connection with senior, mezzanine, construction and permanent loans secured by real and personal property.

Amy counsels real estate firms on commercial and office property developments across the country. Along with commercial borrowers, she has represented commercial banks, private equity firms and insurance companies in her lending practice. Working with clients on a diverse range of issues, Amy understands her clients’ business needs and anticipates implications.

Prior to Brownstein, Amy served as deputy general counsel/VP and managing counsel/VP for CoBank, ACB, a national agricultural credit bank. Amy managed regulatory compliance of secured agribusiness loans to farmer-owned cooperatives, rural electric distribution, water and communications services. She also oversaw corporate matters, including the build-to-suit lease and loan documentation for CoBank’s new 276,000-square-foot headquarters. Amy was an attorney in the Office of University Counsel at the University of Colorado and also served as general counsel to Western New Mexico University.

Her work spans Colorado and New Mexico, where she practiced for nearly nine years.