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After graduating from Yale Law School, Managing Partner Lara Kayayan launched her career at Latham & Watkins LLP. She went on to become the youngest General Counsel and Executive Vice-President in the history of Home Savings of America, a federal savings and loan association that generated billions of dollars in annual mortgage productions.

Lara managed the bank's entire legal department and supervised dozens of outside law firms nationwide in a wide variety of litigation matters, including employment and TILA class actions and lending practices suits. In particular, Lara became an expert in defending mortgage repurchase lawsuits, pioneering a unique and aggressive strategy: massive resistance and prevailing at trial.

Lara also served as interim General Counsel for DTZ, a UGL Company, where she managed the entire worldwide legal department of a multi-billion dollar publicly-traded commercial real estate services firm. In 2011, the Armenian Bar Association designated Lara one of the “Top 20 U.S. Attorneys Under the Age of 40.” She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Yale Club of Los Angeles and is Chair of the Governance Committee. Lara is fluent in Armenian and Arabic.