Closing Team

James Chiboucas - Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer

As vice chairman and chief legal officer of KBS Realty Advisors and its affiliate, KBS Capital Advisors, Jim Chiboucas is responsible for the negotiation and documentation of real estate investments across the United States. This includes the management of the local counsel in each of the jurisdictions involved with acquisitions and dispositions. Mr. Chiboucas also manages the legal counsel retained to provide legal services for the company and for the operations of commercial office and industrial properties throughout the country. In addition, Mr. Chiboucas is a member of the Investment Committee which evaluates and authorizes new investment opportunities for the firm.

Mr. Chiboucas has more than 33 years of legal experience in the real estate industry including real estate investment, finance, acquisitions, dispositions, development and management. He has assisted with KBS Realty Advisors since its inception in 1992, and previously was with Koll Real Estate Group and The Koll Company since 1988. Before joining KBS, Mr. Chiboucas was a partner of Paone, Callahan, McHolm & Winton and vice president of Signal Landmark, a national real estate development company, where he was responsible for all of Signal Landmark's legal real estate transactional matters across the United States.

Mr. Chiboucas graduated summa cum laude and Phi Kappa Phi from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in business, and later with a Juris Doctorate in Law.