Helm Real Estate Lawyers

Mio Asami, born in Los Angeles and raised in Seattle, grew up sharing time between the United States and Tokyo, Japan. Following an unconventional path, she possesses a background in transactional business law, intellectual property law, and videography. Mio is a licensed attorney in California with a focus on the Los Angeles, aiding businesses navigate licensure and development in an emerging industry. In her legal practice, Mio’s focus is the representation of closely-held entities and emerging growth companies through the whole business life cycle, including entity selection, formation, equity and debt financing transactions, acquisitions and, if appropriate, the transfer or...

I'm a highly communicative, creative individual, who loves to think outside of the box and problem solve. My career begain in a city, where I practiced in a general counsel style for various international entertainers. That background and diverse exposure to legal issues, from industry contracts to real estate and estate planning, provided a wonderful platform to transition to practicing a smaller community. I love it when people tell me that I don't meet their steriotypical idea of an attorney.

Undergraduate engineering at Princeton University with Honors programs in Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics; work in probability theory based analysis for the design of the shielding of the Princeton Nuclear Accelerator; Stanford Law School with three years of undergraduate work, Bachelor of Arts '62, Doctor of Jurisprudence '63; Former Professor, University of La Verne School of Law, San Fernando with courses in Real Property, Advanced Property Transactions, Conflicts of Laws, Land Planning and Zoning, Legal Writing, 1978-1983; Faculty at California Attorney and Paralegal Continuing Education Seminars, including, Trial Preparation, Discovery and Trial Practice Procedures; President Red Rover Mine, Inc.; Consul for...

Jon H. Freis has been practicing law in the State of California since 1999 and currently operates his own boutique law firm in Beverly Hills. He handles a wide variety of matters for his clients, including real estate transactions, business formation, and business and real estate litigation in state and federal courts. Mr. Freis also successfully represented residential, multi-family, hotel, restaurant, and commercial real estate developers in transactional and litigation matters. Mr. Freis has successfully tried over 300 bench trials in breach of contract cases and landlord-tenant matters in Los Angeles Superior Court. Mr. Freis also...

Founded by Arous Kalantaryan, Kalantaryan Law Group is a boutique legal services firm based in California. While earning her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, Arous garnered ample experience in healthcare management and held leadership positions at various renowned healthcare organizations, served as a hospital board member, and presented as a guest lecturer on Title 22/Policy Law at USC Leonard David School of Gerontology. To combine her passion for advocating in law and healthcare, Arous pursued a Juris Doctorate degree. In the meantime, Arous worked for renowned attorneys gaining invaluable experience in complex civil litigation involving catastrophic personal injury, automobile,...

David W. Brody has been representing financial institutions and commercial clients throughout California for over 36 years. His clients include some of California’s largest and smallest banks. He advises his clients regarding complex loan transactions, loan documentation and litigation relating to breach of contract, fraud, bankruptcy and real estate. Mr. Brody is admitted to practice law in all courts in the State of California and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of California. He graduated from University of San Diego School of Law in 1983 and received a B.S. in Economics from Southern Connecticut State...

Practicing real estate, business and commercial transactional law for the better part of 20 years, including a decade serving as an executive in charge of land acquisitions and development at two Fortune 500 public companies. Personally involved in the negotiation, contracting, purchase, financing, management and development of billions of dollars in properties throughout the united states. Utilized as in-house counsel for several small to medium-sized multi-million dollar companies taking on numerous and varied aspects of business enterprise issues. Forming new LLCs and revisiting existing LLC operating agreement to bring them into compliance with both new laws and the desires...

B.S. and M.B.A. from the University of Arizona, JD from Southern California Law School. 23 years experience helping people with the criminal defense and civil litigation problems.