Heather S. Riley is a partner in our San Diego office, where her practice involves a variety of land use and environmental matters, with a particular emphasis on writ litigation. She has extensive experience with the California Environmental Quality Act. Heather has defended numerous private clients and public entities in land use and environmental actions in both state and federal courts.

Heather's other practice areas include water law and endangered species law. She has experience with large and small-scale residential, commercial, mixed-use, and educational development and redevelopment projects across Southern California. She assists developers and public agencies with projects from the initial planning stage to permitting and environmental review, and through litigation, if necessary. She has prepared and reviewed environmental impact reports and statements in the land use and aviation fields

David Marino is executive vice president of Hughes Marino, the largest tenant representation company in San Diego. Hughes Marino is committed to only representing tenants in their lease and purchase transactions of commercial space.

David specializes in high-value, time-critical and complex transactions for technology, life science and business service companies. He is an expert in the strategic planning, market assessment, financial analysis, business terms structuring and negotiations aspects of commercial real estate. David has an in-depth command of the entire facility lease, purchase and disposition process. David has been exclusively representing tenants since 1991, completing over 15,000,000 square feet, comprised of over 1,000 transactions.

Selected public company clients include Alphatec Spine, 150,000 SF; Cytori, 18,000, 60,000 and 91,000 SF; Encore Capital, 9,000, 25,000, 32,000 SF and 51,000 SF; Entropic Communications, 8,000, 24,000, 30,000, 90,000 and 132,000 SF; Kratos, 33,000 SF and national assignments including Orlando for 92,000 SF; LRAD, 31,000 SF; Peregrine Semiconductor, 23,000, 25,000 and 48,000 SF; Silicon Valley Bank, 2,000, 5,000 and 8,000 SF; Volcano Corporation where David did all of their work in North America for over a dozen leases from 3,000 to 93,000 SF; Senomyx 65,000 SF; EcoATM, 53,000 SF; and Sequenom Inc., 82,000 SF.

Selected venture-backed and private equity-backed clients include Mitchell International, 141,000 SF; SmartDrive Systems, 4,000 SF, 13,000 SF and 23,000 SF; Tritech Software, 40,000 SF; and Xifin for 60,000 SF. Other notable clients include BioLegend, 9,000 and 66,000 SF; Competitor Group, 57,000 SF; Cooley LLP, 90,000 SF; D&K Engineering, 71,000 SF; Glanbia Nutritionals, 104,000 SF; Hallmark Circuits, 72,000 SF; Provide Commerce, 30,000 SF, 60,000 SF and 154,000 SF; Quantum Design for 49,000 SF and 50,000 SF; and The Scripps Research Institute for 112,000 SF.

As President and CEO, Colton has maintained the company’s focus on mixed-use and town

center developments with an emphasis on urban in-fill and master-planned communities. The firms’

major projects under development include the award-winning 235-acre master-planned community of

Civita in San Diego’s Mission Valley, the 465-acre El Corazon mixed-use community and SoCal Sports

Complex in Oceanside, the 850,000-square- foot Watermark mixed-use project in San Diego’s Scripps

Ranch as well as several others throughout San Diego County, Riverside County, and Los Angeles. The

firm also specializes in entitling particularly challenging and complicated properties.

Before joining the firm in 1997, Sudberry was involved in all aspects of the retail leasing process

in both the development and redevelopment of major retail properties for the Corti Gilchrist Partnership

and CBRE. Sudberry has a master’s degree of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern

California and dual bachelor’s degrees in International Business and Marketing from the University of

Colorado, Boulder. At UC Boulder, Colton was a member of the 1990 National Champion, Big 8

Champion, and Orange Bowl Champion football team. Sudberry is a member of the International Council

of Shopping Centers and Urban Land Institute. He is also a member and former member of the board of

directors of NAIOP San Diego. He serves as a board member of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, the

National Advisory Board of the University of Colorado Real Estate Center, the San Diego City College

Foundation and Santa Fe Christian Schools.