Mark Dioguardi

Partner

Education: Stanford University, B.A., 1977, Arizona State University, J.D., 1980

Practice Areas: Real Estate; Business Transactions; Utility Regulation; Banking; Governmental Relations; Bankruptcy & Workouts

Admissions: 1980, Arizona

Phone: 480-970-2430
Fax: 480-951-8824
Email: mdioguardi@dioguardiflynn.com
The Dioguardi Blog: www.dioguardi.blogspot.com

Recent Posts:

The Recessions of 1990 vs. 2008: Which will be worse?

Biography:

Mark Dioguardi has been recognized as one of the Valley's:

Top 10 Leading Lawyers by the Phoenix Business Journal in 2006,
Top Lawyers by AZ Business magazine in April 2008,
1000 People to Know in Real Estate by Arizona Commercial Real Estate magazine in 2008.

Mark has 28 years of extensive practice in the fields of real estate law and private venture finance, including in the areas of development, acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, finance, leasing, syndications, and zoning and entitlements. He has handled an estimated $4 billion of real estate and venture capital transactions and financings. Mark also works in the areas of banking, bankruptcy and workouts, corporate, business planning and formations, government relations, telecommunications, and utility regulation.

Mark Dioguardi serves on the Board of Directors of Friends of Public Radio Arizona.

After obtaining his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, Mark Dioguardi earned his law degree from Arizona State University. He is admitted to practice law before the State Bar of Arizona, U.S. District Court for Arizona, and the Federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Among the legal projects on which Mark has worked are:

Negotiating and drafting a "Development and Disposition Agreement" with the City of Phoenix, and handling the developer zoning and legal work for the condemnation and redevelopment of a block in downtown Phoenix for a new hotel.
Handling all the legal work for the acquisitions of several multi-property office and retail portfolios with values of in excess of $100,000,000 each.
Creation and licensing of a national bank and its holding company, including the successful regulatory approvals by the OCC, FDIC and Federal Reserve.
Negotiating and documenting a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Phoenix for the lease and development of an industrial complex on City of Phoenix owned land at Sky Harbor Center.
Securing $13.5 million in city guaranteed development loans from the City of Scottsdale at a sub-market interest rate for the development of infrastructure and subdivision improvements for the "Legend Trail" master-planned golf course community. Mr. Dioguardi also successfully negotiated for the City of Scottsdale to provide a water supply to this site, which the City was not legally obligated to serve. He also obtained access to serve the project over state lands.
Formation of the water and sewer companies needed to serve master planned communities outside of any city's municipal boundaries.
The rezoning and development of a mixed-use project of 150,000 square feet of retail and 150,000 square feet of office space in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mr. Dioguardi was retained to successfully rezone this property after previous attempts to rezone the property proved unsuccessful. Mr. Dioguardi was also successful in negotiating with the U.S. Corps of Engineers to remove this property from a flood plain.

Among his other civic and philanthropic activities, Mark has served as a campaign advisor and finance committee member for a number of city, state, county and federal elected office holders, as well as Chairman of the Republican Party in District 25. He also ran for the United States Congress. Mark Dioguardi previously served as:

Founding controlling shareholder, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of West Valley National Bank
A gubernatorial appointee public sector member of the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethics and Election Reform
Special investigative counsel on behalf of the Maricopa County Attorney
Maricopa County Air Pollution Control Board member
City of Phoenix Public Defender Review Committee member
Phoenix Citizens' Bond Committee member
Board of Directors member of Habitat for Humanity