Kurt Kicklighter

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

600 W. Broadway
Suite 2600

San Diego, CA 92101

(619) 699-2526

kkicklighter@luce.com

Education Law School/Year: J.D., Columbia, 1981 Other Graduate School/Year: LL.M. (Taxation), University of San Diego, 1996 College/Year: B.A., UC Berkeley, 1978 Bar Admissions California Practice Areas Corporate Business Major Cases I recently led the team that completed the successful first ever “Community Development IPO” by Market Creek Partners, which owns Market Creek Plaza, a community commercial and cultural center in Southeast San Diego. My most significant current engagement is as lead counsel for 1st Pacific Bancorp in its acquisition of Landmark National Bank, which will result in the largest locally owned bank in San Diego County when completed. In the last few years I helped form or finance San Diego Trust Bank, Security Business Bank, Seacoast Commerce Bank, San Diego Private Bank, Embarcadero Bank, Coronado First Bank and California Community Bank. Professional Background With more than 25 years of practice, I have listened to clients and helped them achieve results they thought improbable or impossible. With training in finance, securities and taxation, I help people work through complex issues to reach simple and profitable conclusions. Professional Affiliations I am currently a director of the Security Network, on the executive committee of the San Diego Business Forum, and a member of the American Bar Association. In the past, I have been a member of Old Mission Rotary Club, the California League of Savings Institutions Attorneys Committee and the California State Bar, Financial Institutions Committee. Personal Background I enjoy good running, bad golf, my loving and patient wife, Carol, and our loving but not so patient Shih Tzu, Kaylee Rose.