Mr. Barnes is Corporate Secretary for American Shared and served as a Director from 1984 to 2004. He was formerly a Senior Partner of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Phillips and a Partner of Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP, Wyman Bautzer Kuchel & Silbert, and Katten Muchin Zavis & Weitzman. From 1975 to 1979, he served as Commissioner of Corporations, the state regulatory agency responsible for administering laws regulating specified financial institutions, including credit unions, industrial loan companies, consumer finance lenders, and commercial finance lenders. He was a Director of Franchise Finance Corporation of America from 1994 to 2001 and currently is a Director of Spirit Finance Corporation and chairs its Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Barnes received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California in 1953 and a law degree from the UCLA Law School in 1959.
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