Dina has extensive experience working on complex purchase and sale transactions, including a transaction that, at the time, was the largest apartment complex purchase and redevelopment in Portland history. She represented the University of Portland in a complex and contentious purchase of land that provided the University with long term expansion opportunities. She has also handled numerous acquisition transactions in California and Washington.
Dina routinely provides strategic advice to developers on the structuring of debt and equity financing. She has formed "blind pool" funds, arranged multiple securitized refinancings on behalf of borrowers, handled large-scale workouts, and assisted clients with the defeasance process. She has also managed a variety of acquisition, construction and permanent financing transactions. During the Great Recession, she helped investors acquire distressed assets. Her financing experience is rounded out by an opinion practice in each of Oregon, Washington, and California.
Dina has leasing experience representing both landlords and tenants in office, retail and ground lease transactions. She negotiated occupancy rights for a sports clinic within Providence Park, assisted a technology company with the lease of its space in the Puget Sound area, and helped a California company relocate its headquarters to leased space in Portland's Sunset Corridor. Dina has also negotiated ground leases for the Port of Portland and for one of Oregon's universities.
Dina also has knowledge of how to structure co-housing and cooperative housing projects. Her experience in this area involves a product type unique to Oregon. She has also worked with a hotel developer to structure equity investments through the federal EB-5 immigration program.
Dina is a frequent speaker at real estate seminars and conferences. She is a member of the American Bar Association, Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) and Oregon Women Lawyers (OWLS). She is a past Chair of the Legislative Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the Oregon State Bar's Real Estate and Land Use section. In 2014 and 2015, Dina was part of the editorial board that reorganized and edited Oregon's Real Estate Deskbook. She is currently serving on a committee that is updating Oregon's real estate opinion letter form.
Prior to co-founding Radler White Parks & Alexander LLP in 2012, Dina was a partner with Ball Janik LLP and Chair of that firm's real estate practice group. She also practiced law at Bogle & Gates, P.L.L.C. in Seattle, Washington and at Cooley Godward LLP in San Francisco, California.
In 2008, Dina had the opportunity to work as Vice President Development and General Counsel at Williams & Dame Development, the innovative developer of Portland's South Waterfront and the South Park neighborhood in Los Angeles. This direct leadership experience in the real estate development business has enhanced her ability to provide strategic counsel to the firm's real estate clients.
Throughout her career, Dina has been active in civic affairs and has handled pro bono matters. Dina served two terms on the Board of Directors of Social Venture Partners of Portland, a non-profit organization working to get all at-risk kids ready for kindergarten. She has also trained for triathlons with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training. Dina has mentored a law student, spoken to high school students about life as a lawyer, and served on the Oregon Business Alliance's Education Committee. While in San Francisco, Dina mentored local high school students through the San Francisco Bar Association's Law Academy and gave a presentation on lease issues to a group of small business owners at the West Contra Costa County Business Development Center. In Seattle, she served, on a pro bono basis, as General Counsel for Food Lifeline, fundraised for the Corporate Council for the Arts, and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity.
In her spare time, Dina enjoys traveling, horseback riding, skiing, scuba diving and the arts.
- November 1, 2017, Business Transactions, Learning the Ropes, Oregon State Bar, Portland, OR.
- November 2, 2016, Business Transactions, Learning the Ropes, Oregon State Bar, Portland, OR.
- Spring, 2015, Keynote Speaker, Annual Law Review Award Dinner, Willamette University College of Law, Salem, OR.
- August, 2014, Opinion Letter Practice - Nuts and Bolts, Real Estate and Land Use Section of the Oregon State Bar, Annual Summer Conference, Salishan, OR.
- August, 2014, Real Estate Legislative Update, Real Estate and Land Use Section of the Oregon State Bar, Annual Summer Conference, Salishan, OR.
- August 9, 2013, Real Estate Legislative Update, Real Estate and Land Use Section of the Oregon State Bar, Annual Summer Conference, Bend, OR.
- October 16, 2012, Principles for Forming, Drafting, and Implementing Public/Private Partnerships; South Waterfront Case Study, Public/Private Partnerships in Oregon, Lorman Education Services, Portland, OR.
- October 12, 2012, Third-Party Legal Opinions, Metes and Bounds of Real Estate and Land Use Law, Oregon State Bar Real Estate and Land Use Section, Tigard, OR.
- September 19, 2012, Wrap-up Panel Discussion: Potential Issues in a Complex Mixed-Use Redevelopment Project and the Best Approaches for Resolving Them, Easements and CCRs, Current Uses and Considerations in Oregon, Law Seminars International, Portland, OR. (panel moderator)
- November 9, 2011, What Not to Do in Loan Structuring
and How Not to Do It, The Risk Management Association (RMA), Oregon/SW Washington Chapter, General Membership Luncheon Meeting, Tualatin, OR.
- September 28, 2011, Financing and Deal Making in the Post-Recession Economy, Ball Janik Real Estate and Land Use Seminar, Portland, OR.
- September 9, 2011, Financing and Deal Making in the Post-Recession Economy, Ticor Title Company, Commercial Class Series, Portland, OR.
- August 12, 2011, Financing and Deal Making in the Post-Recession Economy, Oregon State Bar, Real Estate and Land Use Section 2011 Annual Meeting, Bend, OR.
- July 29, 2011, Public/Private Partnerships, Urban Land Institute (ULI) Young Leaders Group Cascadia Regional Conference (only attorney on panel), Portland, OR.
- July 29, 2011, Public/Private Partnerships, Portland Development Commission and City-sponsored panel for delegation of approximately 50 people from Seattle (only attorney on panel), Portland, OR.
- April 26, 2011, Professionalism Seminar, Multnomah Bar Association Mentor-Mentee Program (only transactional attorney on panel), Portland, OR.
- October 5, 2010, Legal Issues for Lenders, Daily Journal of Commerce, Builder Banker Breakfast, Portland, OR.
- September 29, 2010, Borrower Perspectives on Failed Banks, Ball Janik Real Estate and Land Use Seminar, Portland, OR.
- September 23, 2009, Ball Janik LLP Annual Conference on Current Issues in Real Estate and Land Use, Portland, OR.
- May 28, 2009, Deals Gone Bad, Working Out Troubled Real Estate Loans, NAIOP Young Leaders Division, Portland, OR.
- August 21, 2008, Mixed-Use Development, CLE International, San Francisco, CA.
- May 18, 2006, Real Estate Development from Beginning to End in Oregon, Lorman Education Services, Portland, OR.
- June 2, 2005, Law of Easements in Oregon: Legal Issues and Practical Considerations, Lorman Education Services, Portland, OR.
- March 9, 2005, Land Use Land Mines and Real Estate Sinkholes, Multnomah County Bar Association, Portland, OR.
- September 29, 2004, Basics Of Defeasance: The Mechanism That Allows a Borrower to Obtain a Release of Real Property Collateral from the Lien of a Conduit Loan Mortgage, Ball Janik Real Estate and Land Use Seminar, Portland, OR.
- April 9, 2004, Commercial Real Estate Basics, Multnomah County Bar Association, Portland, OR.
- October 24, 2003, Fundamentals of Real Estate, Commercial Leasing, Oregon State Bar, Real Estate and Land Use Section, Portland, OR.