Leadership
President and General Counsel
Mr. Siegel is an experienced business lawyer and manager with primary expertise in planning, structuring and negotiating real estate transactions with emphasis on financing, acquisition, due diligence, asset management, operations, leasing and disposition of properties, and the restructuring and workout of problem properties and loans. Prior to founding Edge, Mr. Siegel was the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Republic Property Trust, a NYSE publicly-traded real estate investment trust with an office portfolio valued over US$1 billion consisting of 25 office properties. Mr. Siegel was also the General Counsel of RKB Washington Property Fund.
Mr. Siegel attended the University of Virginia, School of Law, where he was a Senior Editor of the Virginia Law Review and obtained his Juris Doctor (Order of the Coif) in 1984. Mr. Siegel is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College (Summa cum laude) in 1981 where he majored in Business Management with concentrations in Accounting and Finance.