Jay Wallace

Jay’s clients have included private real estate developers, owners of entertainment, and hospitality businesses, entrepreneurs, a biotech business, landlords, and private parties involved in corporate and business transactions. Jay has been actively involved in some of the Bay Area’s most sophisticated real estate deals including the entitlement and development of the Treasure Island Development Project, the acquisition of The Aquarium of the Bay/PIER 30, and the acquisition, entitlement and sale of real property parcels in excess of $100M. Jay has also provided corporate and business services to a start-up biotechnology company, a start-up agricultural seed company, a private equity investment company and several operating companies. Jay’s experience also include successfully working in the highly regulated world of local and state government, including working closely with local and state elected officials and government executives. Jay Wallace is a graduate of University of California, Hastings College of the Law and Pitzer College, and is licensed to practice law in California. --- 2007: Jay began his political career as an International Representative for the Service Employees International Union and then served as the Special Assistant to the Director of CalOSHA. Jay then served in the Office of the San Francisco City Attorney and held key positions in two prestigious San Francisco legal firms Coblent; Cahen, McCabe & Breyer, and Sanger & Olsen. Jay joined Platinum Advisors in 2000 and he has managed Platinum’s San Francisco/Bay Area office since that time. Mr. Wallace has extensive experience handling a wide variety of political and government issues, procurements, land use and real estate transactions, CEQA and other regulatory approvals. He has appeared before regulatory and governmental agencies at the federal, state, and local level. Jay has successfully represented clients including developers, public agencies, institutional real estate advisors, entrepreneurs, investors, nonprofit housing developers, and affordable housing cooperatives. On the political front, Jay has managed many successful campaigns, including Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's 2002 election, as well as Kevin Shelley’s elections to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1990, 1994) and State Assembly (1996, 1998, 2000). Mr. Wallace also managed U.S. Congresswoman and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s first congressional campaign in 1987, a $95 million San Francisco school bond issue in 1989, and San Francisco City Attorney Louise Renne's reelection to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1984).