1. SHARON D. SILVERMAN
Kensington, CA 94707
Cell: (510) 851-2203
E-mail: sharondsilverman@comcast.net
Professional Experience:
July 2007- Dans Le Jardin, Kensington, Cailifornia
Present
Landscape Designer; Self-Employed—Design and install residential gardens in
the East Bay.
March,2005- Haas & Najarian, San Francisco, California
July, 2005
Real Estate Transactional Attorney--reviewed, revised and provided advice on:
commercial leases, including office, retail and hotel space; unimproved and improved property
sales representing sellers and buyers; and parking and emergency access easements. Closed
several deals, including a $28 million condominium sale in Hawaii involving three escrows.
Second attorney on a $100 million, six hotel portfolio sale to Credit Suisse First Boston.
1997-2004 Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, California
2001-2004 Lead Real Estate Transactional and Political Law Compliance Attorney –
Law Department
Lead real estate transactional attorney for one of the largest private employers and
landowners in California:
• Provide day-to-day advice and counsel on all real estate matters for PG&E’s entire
service territory from Bakersfield to the California/Oregon border.
• Supervise and manage all (i) surplus property sales of $60+ million portfolio and
unimproved land purchases for facilities expansion; (ii) leasing of third-party property,
including office and industrial space, totaling over one million square feet; (iii) third-party
uses of PG&E property, including leases, licenses and easements and (iv) streetlight and
other distribution facilities sales.
• Handle more than 50 transactions at a time and regularly advise six PG&E departments.
• Draft and update all form agreements, including purchase and sale agreements, leases
(both tenant and landlord-oriented), licenses and easements associated with practice
area in conjunction with Corporate Real Estate (“CRE”) and outside counsel.
• Experienced with complex transactions involving environmental cleanups; environmental
mitigation; Subdivision Map Act issues; condemnation and California Public Utilities
Commission regulatory compliance issues.
• Provide full-day bi-annual training to regional CRE personnel on new procedures and
form agreements.
• Drafted, in conjunction with CRE and outside counsel, a comprehensive leasing manual
providing detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to lease property as a tenant from
the time that a need for leased space is identified through lease termination and exiting of
the premises.

2. • Lead real estate in-house liaison to PG&E’s outside counsel during Chapter 11
reorganization.
• Supervise and manage all outside counsel firms supporting PG&E’s real estate practice,
including all associated administrative responsibilities of hiring contracts, budgets and bill
review and approval.
Sole in-house political law compliance attorney for multi-billion dollar regulated utility:
• Advise, in conjunction with outside counsel, on all lobbying, gift-giving, in-kind contribution
and campaign activities and associated required internal and external reporting of those
activities and conflict of interest issues related to the above.
• Provide formal annual training tailored to each client department.
• Supervise outside counsel, review and approve all billings and manage associated budgets
and contracts.
1997-2000 Real Estate/Corporate Transactional and Political Law Compliance
Attorney – Law Department
Supervise and manage all surplus property sales and large office and industrial leases in
which PG&E is a tenant. Negotiate and draft wide variety of corporate agreements
(approximately 75 total) including: construction of PG&E facilities, including transmission
towers, underground transmission lines and warehouse complex; software licensing;
energy efficiency programs; telecommunication installations; cleanup and transport of
hazardous and nuclear waste; environmental and business consulting; and replacement
security system for PG&E’s nuclear power plant. Author of PG&E’s Uniform Standard
Practice of Law Department Requirements Concerning Contracting, setting forth
company-wide requirements for negotiating, drafting and executing corporate
transactions. Sole in-house political law compliance attorney performing duties described
above.
1996-1997 Lofton, De Lancie & Nelson, San Francisco, California
Litigation and Transactional Attorney practicing in the areas of real estate, banking, public
finance and bankruptcy.
1993-1996 Business Consultant Emeryville, California
Business consultant to several businesses developing and marketing portable water
purification systems to Africa and India while starting up my own gourmet coffee cart
business, Bean Me Up, at the Oakland International Airport.
1990-1993 Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, California
Litigation Associate in general commercial practice group.
Education:
J.D. University of California, Berkeley, School of Law 1990
B.A. English Literature and Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986
Magna Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Interests: Gardening, equestrian sports, reading.