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Education
  • Johns Hopkins University (B.A.,1970)
  • Northwestern University School of Law (J.D.,1973)


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  • California

Zane O. Gresham Zane O. Gresham

Partner
Primary Office: San Francisco

Email: zgresham@mofo.com
Phone: (415) 268-7145
Fax: (415) 268-7522

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Mr. Gresham is a senior partner of the firm. He is a recognized authority on development and financing of large-scale public works and major private facilities, and coordinates the firm’s Latin America group.

He has extensive experience in project development, joint ventures, acquisitions, and strategic alliances internationally, as well as in the United States, in industries as diverse as “new town” development, energy, transportation, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, steel, and wineries.

Mr. Gresham also provides public and private sector clients with strategic advice on private sector involvement in water and airport privatizations around the world. Mr. Gresham has advised on water projects and transactions in the United States (US$2.0 billion reconstruction and expansion of San Francisco’s sewer system), Argentina (Provinces of Buenos Aires and Mendoza), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Chile (Santiago and Valparaiso), Panama and Peru (Lima). For over twenty years, he has advised major U.S. airports on major development and regulatory projects (including airports in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco), and international consortia in bids for the privatization of airports and airports systems (including the Perth, Australia, airport, four major airports in Honduras, certain airports in Mexico, national airports system in Argentina and the Santiago, Chile, and Lima, Peru, airports).

Mr. Gresham is President, Pan American Society of California; Vice President/Latin America, International Private Water Association; Associate Member, Airports Council International; full member of Urban Land Institute and of Lambda Alpha, the international honorary land economics organization; Vice Chairman, National Youth Science Foundation; Director, Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco; Member, Board of Directors of the Foundation for San Francisco’s Architectural Heritage; and a former President of the East Bay Regional Parks Foundation.

He has been a guest lecturer for ITAM (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico), and UIA (Unión Industrial Argentina). He has acted as a special legal adviser to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the North America Commission on Environmental Cooperation (NACEC).