Contact Information

555 Capitol Mall 9th Floor

Sacramento CA 95814

916.325.5868

dholtz@mhalaw.com

Practice Focus

Commercial Transactions

Acquisitions

Donna L. Holtz | Shareholder

Professional Experience

Donna joined McDonough Holland & Allen in 2004. She is a member of the firm’s Real Estate practice group where she specializes in all aspects of real estate, including commercial transactions, acquisitions, development and representing national homebuilders. She also assists clients with documentation of master-planned communities. Donna negotiates and prepares complex real estate documents including Purchase and Sale Agreements, Declarations of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions, Cross-Easement Agreements, Right-of-Entry Agreements, Cost Sharing Agreements and Infrastructure Improvement Agreements.

Prior to joining the firm, Donna was a senior associate attorney in the real estate transactional group of a Sacramento law firm where she represented real estate developers in all stages of development including land use entitlements to the sale of the asset for residential, commercial and mixed-use projects. Donna drafted, reviewed and negotiated complex commercial real estate documents, including Purchase and Sale Agreements, Easement Agreements, and Licensing Agreements. She analyzed surveys and titles, including preliminary reports, title policies, endorsements for commercial projects and reviewed ALTA surveys, Subdivision Maps and Site Plans.

Prior Experience

From 2000 to 2002, she worked as an associate attorney with the real estate and finance departments of a San Francisco based law firm. She represented real estate developers on construction financing and mezzanine loans. She also represented lenders and borrowers in commercial loan transactions.

In 1998, Donna was an associate attorney in the real estate, environmental and land use practice of a San Francisco law firm where she was responsible for preparing the underlying documentation in order to license and register real estate resort developments in 15 states. In addition, she was part a member of the alcohol beverage control team and was responsible for handling the licensing of a national hotel chain. She also managed and handled a 50 state survey for a marketing company regarding the complex regulation and distribution of alcohol beverages and dairy products.

From 1996 to 1998, Donna served as Deputy City Attorney for the City of Benicia where she coordinated and prepared documents for all City departments regarding litigation, contracts and other public law issues. As part of the City Attorney’s office, Donna attended and provided advice during City Council and Planning Commission meetings.

Leadership Positions/Affiliations

Member, Sacramento County Bar Association

Associate Member, Association of Commercial Real Estate

Board Member, Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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Admitted to Practice

State Bar of California, 1996

Education

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

J.D., 1996

University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Environmental Studies, Law and Society, 1993