Gary S. Lachman

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Gary S. Lachman is an American author, international lawyer, fishing boat captain, and former Portfolio Manager for the U.S. Department of State. Formerly a resident of Istanbul, Turkey, Lachman currently resides in Palm Beach County, Florida.

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Born in New York City, Lachman was raised in Scarsdale, New York, before moving to North Carolina to attend college at Duke University. Upon graduation, he continued his education at University of Denver College of Law where he received his Juris Doctor. He remained in Denver and practiced real estate law there until 2006. Opportunity presented a move to the Washington D.C. area where Mr. Lachman developed Lake Arbor, one of the first large-scale master planned communities in suburban D.C. Upon completion of the development of Lake Arbor, Mr. Lachman established Thoroughbred Homes, and built many high-end production and luxury custom homes in the Washington, D.C. suburbs between 1991 and 1997. As a private developer he developed over 50 million square feet of residential land and buildings.

Mr. Lachman accepted a position with the U.S. Department of State as International Real Estate Portfolio Manager and leader of the New Embassies and Consulates group at the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations. He negotiated and managed the development of projects above €800 million globally and was responsible for the negotiation and acquisition of 40 new embassies and consulates worldwide. He is remembered at the State Department for, among other things, his interesting approach to international negotiation. In one former Soviet state, he negotiated the acquisition of a crucial security setback property in exchange for a Barbie doll and a Tonka truck.

Lachman spent 2006 - 2014 practicing international law with a focus on mergers and acquisitions in Istanbul, Turkey. He represented a number of US public companies in connection with their establishment of subsidiaries in Turkey and entering into joint ventures with Turkish companies. In the course of his law practice, he became an expert on the advantages of situating foreign companies in Turkish Free Trade Zones.

Mr. Lachman served as an associate professor of International Real Estate at the Johns Hopkins University, Edward St. John real estate program at the Carey Business School [1] teaching a graduate level course in International Real Estate Investment and Development in Emerging Markets. He also taught business communication and law classes at Koç University in Istanbul [2] and was a lecturer on cross cultural communication and negotiation in the College of Business Administration at Kuwait University. Lachman was a contributing journalist for the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review with weekly columns – "The Consultant's Corner" and "The Law Office" - and is the author of the book Real Estate Investment, Development, and Law in Emerging Markets originally published by PEI Media. For a number of years, Mr. Lachman taught a seminar on negotiation techniques at The Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland for their American Law program. [3] as well as serving as an International Real Estate Consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Republic of Poland. He assisted with their acquisitions and disposals of diplomatic facilities in the U.S. and throughout the world.

In addition to business, Mr. Lachman was an avid and nationally ranked polo player. In 1980, he founded the Perkins Shearer/Denver Symphony Annual Polo Cup in connection with his tenure as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Lachman organized and played in what originated as a single match and grew into an annual tournament that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Unbeknownst to its current organizers, this event grew into what is now called the Denver Polo Classic, a major fundraiser for children's charities. [4] Lachman maintains solid ties to Duke University, having served on several of the Advisory Boards, including the Board of Visitors of the Duke University Medical Center, the Duke Heart Board, and the Duke Eye Center. [5] While living in Istanbul, he combined his involvement with Duke and his teaching background with Johns Hopkins 2000–2006 by providing college counseling to foreign students wishing to attend university in the United States. Gary continued his support of classical music by serving on the Board of Directors of Palm Beach Symphony for 9 years. (https://www.palmbeachsymphony.org He also remains closely affiliated with Johns Hopkins by serving on the Neurosurgery Advisory Board.

Gary Lachman is Of Counsel in Greenspoon Marder's West Palm Beach, Florida office [6] where he works as the senior real estate and M&A lawyer. His practice focuses on international mergers & acquisitions, asset protection, and real estate law.

Gary holds a USCG Merchant Mariners OUPV Captains License and runs deep sea fishing tournament charters with Blue Devil Fishing Team (http://www.bluedevilfishing.com). He and his partners tournament charter fishing team operates out of West Palm Beach. He is passionate about maintaining healthy pelagic fish stocks along Florida's Atlantic coast and he and his team conduct frequent ocean trash removal exercises between Delray Beach and Jupiter, Florida. Gary and his fishing team members all belong to Captains for Clean Water (http://www.captainsforcleanwatet.org )

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  1. ↑ "MS in Real Estate and Infrastructure | Academics | Carey Business School". carey.jhu.edu. Archived from the original on September 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Koç Üniversitesi -". Koç Üniversitesi.
  3. ↑ "Homepage - Jagiellonian University - Jagiellonian University". en.uj.edu.pl.
  4. ↑ "Denver Polo Classic". Archived from the original on October 12, 2010. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  5. ↑ "News & Media | Duke Health".
  6. ↑ "Greenspoon Marder LLP". Greenspoon Marder LLP.
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