Kenneth Tucker

ady1mt@r.postjobfree.com

310-***-****

CAREER SUMMARY

My real estate and entity management, contracts administration, procurement and legal skills have advanced through the rigorous requirements of managers and attorneys from multinational companies such as Reading International, British Petroleum (ARCO), T-Mobile, Nissan and Disney. Reading International’s US cinema holdings have afforded me the opportunity to increase my experience in entity management, commercial lease management, lease accounting and operations compliance. At British Petroleum, management of the commercial real estate sale process for retail gas station land required diligent coordination of escrow, title, purchasing and lending entities. EDUCATION

Juris Doctor

University of West Los Angeles

Bachelor of Art

California State University Long Beach

SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

MS Office: Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Access; SharePoint, DocuSign, Paradox Current Training: Yardi Voyager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

READING INTERNATIONAL, INC. – 12/2014 to present

07/2017 to present - Real Estate Management:

Calculate, approve and submit monthly base rent, property tax, common area, insurance costs and annual percentage rent for US lease payments.

Forecast annual budget figures for US lease payments. Request and review title reports and surveys, communicate with title companies to make corrections and ensure the required title policy coverage is in place with survey document support. Perform due diligence, negotiate terms of service and draft agreements to procure various site related vendors: surveyors, title companies, security services, cleaning and repair and engineers. Communicate with adjacent property owners, city record keepers, lenders and attorneys to resolve survey map and title report issues.

Draft and file corrective deeds for recording as required. Generate lease reports and abstracts and track and notify senior management of lease option deadlines and liquor license renewals.

Draft and submit quarterly US real estate activity and expense reports for board of director approval. Manage and track occupancy permits for NY properties. Track lease terminations and option renewals.

Manage and draft theater lease amendments, estoppels, subordination and non-disturbance agreements, licenses, notices and general business correspondence. Review and summarize lease provisions, commercial and government documents and codes. Manage and prepare escrow opening and closing documents for the sale of company real estate. Create and manage real estate closing checklists and prepare and review related documents as needed. Tucker resume, p 2

12/2014 to 07/2017 - Corporate and Legal Administration: Formation, management and dissolution of entities including drafting and amending articles, bylaws, operating agreements, minutes, resolutions and consents, certificates of authority, fictitious name statements, state business licenses, trademarks and service marks. Maintain entity binders and an organizational chart of entities. Compile, organize and submit litigation request documents to outside counsel. Implement best practices such as vendor consolidation to generate cost savings where applicable. Reorganize legal network drive folders and standardize sub-folder names to expedite legal research. T-MOBILE – 7/2014 to 12/2014

Contracts Administrator – Consultant Assignment

Contracts Administration:

Managed and drafted cell site tower leases.

Researched cell site histories.

Coordinated licenses with cell site contractor installation. THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT – 2/2014 to 4/2014

Contracts Administrator – Temporary Assignment

Contracts Administration:

Drafted and issued capital equipment agreements, commercial lease agreements and service agreements including independent contractor, facilities, IT and consultant agreements. Enforced contract request policies and procedures by educating internal stakeholders. Reviewed vendors’ statements of work and billing/payment requests. Verified vendors’ entity documentation: articles, certifications, operating agreements, fictitious filings, bylaws, organizational meeting minutes and resolutions. Requested, reviewed and approved vendors’ insurance policies including general liability, worker’s compensation, umbrella coverage and additional insured endorsements. Paralegal Administration:

Clarified legal provisions and company’s legal position for internal clients and contractors. Served as the company point of contact for employees to engage services of outside counsel. Reviewed and approved legal billing for all departments. Created, reviewed and submitted check requisitions. BRITISH PETROLEUM/ARCO – 8/2005 to 10/2013

Real Estate Paralegal - Contractor

Project Management:

Met with senior attorneys, sales managers and staff to assess scope of gasoline site offerings, evaluate program and legal risk of each proposed construction offering (retrofit and raze-rebuild) and projected percentage of accepted offers based on the selected programs. Assisted sales team in making final site offers to gasoline station franchisees. Built a database with input screen to capture deal progression and identify vendor contact information, gasoline site specifics and each deal phase and requirement from the offer of a gasoline site to the close of escrow.

Documented former paralegal best sales practices into a real estate sales procedure checklist. Created a general real estate department information sheet including procedures and policies. Managed legal assistants in compiling a major sub-lease database. Trained real estate paralegals, legal assistants and new attorneys on BP policies and procedures. Completed close statements for Accounting and BP management. Tucker resume, p 3

Contracts Administration:

Drafted real estate purchase agreements, amendments, deeds, option agreements, environmental declarations, leases and lease amendments, easement agreements and general correspondence. Conducted quality control review of outside counsel’s real estate agreement drafts for site offerings. Drafted and issued broker agreements for various site offerings. Managed BP’s risks and minimized requested agreement modifications by effectively communicating reasonable explanations to lenders and buyers for BP’s positions in its standard form contracts. Real Estate Paralegal Administration:

Performed due diligence for commercial site dispositions and acquisitions including completion of litigation clearances, title searches, environmental review and license and permit investigation. Coordinated escrow openings for all good faith offer, unsolicited bid and open bid ampm and ARCO sites including review and approval of Buyer’s and Seller’s entity documents. Drafted requests to open escrow and escrow closing instructions letters. Managed escrow closing procedures: title and restricted area map review; drafting extension amendments; review and coordination of recorded documents; calculation of buyer’s and seller’s settlement statement figures (tax and lease pro-rations, commissions and hold back amounts, etc.) and authorization for escrow to close.

BP Recognition and Achievement

2008-present: Recognized by BP management for contributions towards achieving Q4 results of 57 closed sites for $125 million in proceeds and 2008-year totals of 128 sites closed for $230 million in proceeds.

2007: Nominated for BP Reward and Recognition by USCO manager for contributions toward exceeding 2006 target of $363 million.

2005: Nominated for Real Estate Legal Services Reward and Recognition by managing attorney for contributions towards CA and AZ site dispositions.

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