Michael Floryan

Mr. Floryan has an extensive background in law, business and finance. He is a California attorney and founder of Floryan Law, P.C., who specializes in serving ultra-high-net-worth clients as their General Counsel and family office executive. In this role, Michael is responsible for all legal matters concerning, and the management and strategic growth of, a diverse portfolio of investment assets, including approximately $2 billion of real estate throughout the United States, comprised of industrial, medical, multi-family, traditional office, retail, self-storage, airport hangars, mixed-use buildings. land holdings, fixed-base aircraft fueling operations in Southern California and ongoing residential and commercial development projects throughout California. In addition to managing extensive real estate portfolios, Michael is experienced in overseeing clients’ operating businesses in numerous industries and hospitality portfolios. Michael has also pioneered and established hard money lending arms for his clients, which operate as bridge financing vehicles for real estate acquisitions and gasoline station owners and operators. Beyond his technical transactional legal practice and executive services, Michael acts as his clients’ personal attorney and counsel and handles any and all matters affecting his clients, which include, among other things, overseeing and managing outside litigation attorneys, administering trust and estate matters (including overseeing Form 706 filings), handling and resolving intrafamily disputes, and operating as his clients’ field general when needed.

In August 2022, Michael found Orchard Family Office Services, a boutique family office services firm headquartered in Southern California, which provides custom finance and legal solutions for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and operates as the CFO, COO and General Counsel for the families thereof.

Prior to serving ultra-high-net-worth and family office clients, Michael worked for Los Angeles law firms Liner LLP (now DLA Piper) and Sklar Kirsh LLP as a real estate and corporate finance attorney. Michael counseled clients on a broad array of corporate and real estate transaction issues, including, but not limited to, limited liability company and corporation formation, acquisition of competitors’ assets in a bulk sale, acquisition of assets in a bankruptcy auction, environmental impact report analysis and diligence, commercial lease transactions, lease agreement compliance, financing and refinancing multi-family residential properties and commercial properties, joint ventures and syndications for the purposes of property acquisition, property operation, property management, acquisitions, dispositions, and hard-money lending company formation and operation.

Prior to his woek in the legal field, Michael was a land development manager/coordinator for homebuilder Pardee Homes, where he managed all aspects of the infrastructure and development of nine master-planned communities totaling over 4,100 acres of residential development in California.

Michael earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil/Structural Engineering from the University of Southern California and his Juris Doctor degree from the Pepperdine University School of Law, where he graduated cum laude. In addition, Michael is a Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution Certificate recipient. Michael is published in both the Pepperdine Law Review and the 2011 Thompson West Zoning And Planning Law Handbook. Michael is an active member of the California Bar Association and was elected as a Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star, by Super Lawyers and Los Angeles Magazine in 2014 and 2015, and as a Rising Star by the Association for Corporate Growth Los Angeles (ACG LA) in 2014.