Kenneth S. Fields is a partner in the Business & Tax Department and chairs the firm's Real Estate Group. Ken's practice involves all aspects of real estate transactions, including buying and selling individual properties and multi-property portfolios, construction and development and leasing of industrial, retail and office properties, and permanent, construction, mezzanine and other real estate secured loans. His clients include industrial, retail and office building owners and tenants, commercial brokerage firms and real estate investors and syndicators. Ken has assisted clients in buying or selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of real estate assets, has negotiated leases affecting millions of square feet of space and has helped clients raise hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate syndications. Ken frequently represents owners and tenants in single-tenant "big-box" leases. Ken understands his clients' business objectives, and strives to help achieve those objectives in an efficient and cost effective manner. He maintains a business-like and deal-oriented approach, focusing on what is important to his clients.

Before joining Silver & Freedman, Ken was a Partner in Woollacott Jannol Fields, LLP and in Fields & Pearl. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986, and his Juris Doctorate from Loyola of Los Angeles Law School in 1989. While in Law School, Ken was a member of Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review and the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society, and served as a Judicial Extern to Judge Richard A. Gadbois, Jr., of the United States District Court. Ken is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Conejo Valley Boys and Girls' Clubs, and previously served as the Chairman of the Legal Committee of Heal the Bay.

He has been married for over 10 years to his wife, Karen, and they have two children, Spencer and Julia. When Ken is not working, he likes to vacation with his family, preferably on a quiet beach somewhere (without his BlackBerry, if his family has anything to say about it).

Some of Ken's published articles include "Letters of Intent May be Binding", which appeared in The Real Estate Journal.