Frederick Chin, founder of the Atalon Group, combines diverse operational and restructuring experience with broad-based real estate advisory expertise. Over the course of his 30 year career, he has advised public and private real estate companies, wealthy individuals, estates, pension funds and insurance companies on a variety of real estate matters including judicial and non-judicial restructurings, transaction structuring, capital formation, strategic planning, operations and portfolio valuation and feasibility. He has also served as Chief Restructuring Officer, representing all stakeholders, including debtors, creditors and equity interests.

Recently, Frederick served as CEO and President of Lake Las Vegas, a 3,600 acre master planned community in Las Vegas, Nevada. With the approval of and support by a consortium of lenders holding over $600 million in debt, Atalon assumed ownership control of Lake Las Vegas following a default by its predecessor equity holders. .Following an assessment of the Lake Las Vegas project and its operations, Atalon determined that a chapter 11 reorganization was necessary. Frederick led Atalon’s two year effort to aggressively de-leverage and restructure Lake Las Vegas. These efforts included raising $125 million in debtor in possession financing and gaining the support of the local government, secured and unsecured creditors, land owners, hotel and golf course owners and operators and suppliers. Atalon is currently managing the operation and development of Lake Las Vegas following its successful emergence from bankruptcy in July 2010.

Prior to forming the Atalon Group, Frederick was CEO and COO of a diversified land development and homebuilding company, where he oversaw more than 50 subsidiaries involved in homebuilding, construction, land development, and land investment. Frederick was responsible for creating and executing corporate strategy that was focused on maximizing and monetizing the value of investment holdings, while generating record levels of revenues and profitability from homebuilding and land development operations. He successfully led efforts to secure a $500 million financing, coordinating rating agencies, investment banks, and institutional lenders. Frederick also spearheaded all aspects of an acquisition of a publicly traded real estate operating company and arranged financing of $250 million for the acquisition.

During 1989 to 2004, Frederick was a partner with Ernst and Young LLP, and a principal with Kenneth Leventhal and Company in Los Angeles, where he was both of the firms' subject matter expert in real estate valuation and market feasibility matters, and led the firms' real estate litigation practice. Frederick provided a variety of advisory services to clients throughout the County, including transaction structuring, restructurings, repositioning of troubled assets, portfolios and companies to maximize recovery and minimize ownership risk, and determining ownership alternatives to pension funds, institutional investors, owners and governmental agencies of troubled real estate portfolios.

Frederick is a nationally recognized expert witness in a variety of real estate matters, and has extensive testimony experience in Federal Bankruptcy and State Courts throughout the United States. The scope of his testimony addressed financial damages and lost profits arising from breech of fiduciary duty, contractual disputes, valuation/diminution in value, condemnation, construction defects and professional malpractice.

Frederick earned his Bachelor of Science in Business with a concentration in Real Estate from the University of Arizona, and is a Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI) and a Counselor of Real Estate (CRE).