Leadership Team
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       Brock BerglundBrock Berglund brings a wealth of experience in business and real estate, specializing in acquisitions, financing, and management. He manages a real estate portfolio with over $100 million in assets and has successfully raised capital for a diverse range of projects. Legally trained, Brock is known for his expertise as a negotiator and has a proven track record in navigating complex foreclosure and workout transactions, skillfully addressing intricate legal challenges and working with sophisticated parties to achieve favorable outcomes. 
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       John ThyneJohn Thyne is a seasoned Santa Barbara attorney and co-founder of the successful real estate brokerage, Goodwin & Thyne Properties. With over 20 years of teaching experience, he has served as President of the Santa Barbara County Bar Foundation and is active in community service, including founding One805 and serving as President of Leadership Santa Barbara County. In addition to his work in civil litigation, real estate, and entertainment law (representing his brother TJ Thyne of Bones), John represents corporate clients and high-net-worth individuals and serves as an expert witness in real estate matters. 
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       Christopher ConantChristopher (C.J.) Conant brings 19 years of experience as an attorney licensed in California and Colorado, specializing in representing private and institutional lender in connection with debt secured by real estate and personal property. As an attorney he focused on navigating his clients through foreclosures of deeds of trust and mortgages against real estate and UCC sales and related deficiency collection mechanisms and bankruptcy proceedings. He now brings his background and expertise to serve lenders as a foreclosure trustee. 
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       Brant BerglundBrant Berglund graduated Magna Cum Laude in Finance from the University of San Diego and earned the Dean’s Scholarship at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). He focuses on complex civil litigation and corporate transactions. Brant recently served as trial counsel in a high-profile jury trial, securing a unanimous verdict worth in excess of eight figures for his clients, plus punitive damages and attorney fees. In denying a new-trial motion, Judge Thomas P. Anderle, one of California’s most experienced and discerning jurists with nearly three decades on the bench, praised the matter as “exceptionally well lawyered.” 
