Mr. Seneker was born in San Jose, California, in 1942. He is a graduate of Stanford University (A.B. 1964) and Boalt Hall Law School, University of California at Berkeley (J.D. 1967), where he was Editor in Chief of the California Law Review. Mr. Seneker served as a law clerk to Associate Justice William O. Douglas of the United States Supreme Court during the 1967-68 term. Mr. Seneker associated with Morrison & Foerster in 1971, and became a partner of the firm in 1975. After 13 years in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office, Mr. Seneker relocated to Los Angeles in 1984 to head the firm’s Southern California real estate practice. He also served for a time as Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office. He returned to the firm’s San Francisco office in 1996 where he served as co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s firmwide real estate practice until January 2000.

Mr. Seneker has been active in bar association projects and committees, and has served as a member and vice-chair of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Section of the California State Bar. He has been a panelist on a number of statewide and national continuing education programs, and has published extensively on topics dealing with commercial real estate practice, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, and land use and environmental law. He served in 1997 to 1998 as President of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He is also a member of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, the Anglo-American Real Property Institute, and Lambda Alpha National Land Economics Society.

Mr. Seneker’s practice is devoted primarily to commercial real estate transactions, secured debt restructuring and creditors’ rights, and environmental law, zoning, and land use regulation. He has negotiated and documented a large number of substantial real property transactions, including acquisition, disposition, and exchange of commercial real estate properties on behalf of both U.S. domestic and foreign-based investors and institutions, and sales and acquisitions of portfolios of real estate properties and real estate loans; sophisticated lease financings (including sale-leasebacks, high credit leases and synthetic leases); large-scale project development and construction agreements; commercial ground and occupancy leases; numerous secured real estate financing transactions, including participating and convertible loans, construction and development loans, multi-state debt financings, and mezzanine debt transactions; and project joint ventures and partnerships. In the field of zoning, land use regulation and environmental law, Mr. Seneker has made numerous appearances before governmental agencies relating to the permitting and regulation of real estate developments and industrial projects, and has advised clients extensively with respect to permitting and environmental requirements relating to commercial and industrial operations and facilities.

Mr. Seneker was listed as a 2004 Northern California Super Lawyer in the San Francisco Magazine, and named global "Real Estate Lawyer of the Year 2005," by Who’s Who Legal, the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. Private practice lawyers of repute in the practice area in question and in related fields from around the world, as well as general counsel, were interviewed by Who’s Who Legal for this inaugural award. He is also listed in the 2005-2007 Best Lawyers in America directories and recommended by the 2005 Chambers USA for Real Estate Law. In addition, Mr. Seneker was “considered ‘a big name’ on the West Coast for transactional issues, including all aspects of acquisitions, financing, zoning and land use,” and was highly recommended by the 2006 PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook for Corporate Real Estate law.