The Orchard Family Office Team brings over 25 years of experience to your business and family office

Michael J. Floryan 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 agricultural, 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 and assets.  In addition, Michael is experienced in overseeing a client’s portfolio of gasoline stations across the United States, a full-service car wash in Los Angeles, a wholesale fuel terminal in New Mexico, ethanol plants and biogas operations in the Midwest and California, and squid fishing operation in Southern California. Michael has also pioneered and established hard money lending arms for his clients, which operate as bridge financing vehicles for real estate acquisitions and operating business owners and operators. In addition to the foregoing responsibilities,

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. 

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. 

In 2000, Marc received his Bachelor’s in Business Administration with a focus on accounting from Sienna College. He became a Certified Public Accountant in 2002 after gaining valuable post-graduate experience as an auditor at Arthur Andersen. Afterwards, Marc served as an accounting manager at J.P. Morgan real estate group, where he provided accounting and financial reporting for a $20 billion portfolio.

In 2006, Marc joined New York City based Clarion Partners LLC, then the largest real estate investment manager in the world. In addition to serving as the Controller for a portfolio of real estate owned by New York State Common Retirement Fund, he set up a new real estate platform for opportunistic and value-add real estate opportunities. Marc partnered with the portfolio manager and  investor relations department to raise funds from high-net-worth individuals, then deploy the capital across a diverse set of real estate assets. From treasury, to accounting systems and performance reporting, Marc and his team created a seamless and sustainable real estate investment platform.

Marc relocated to Los Angeles in 2008 and joined CIM Group, a real estate management and investment group. Marc oversaw portfolios of real estate owned by pension funds and high net worth individuals, working to provide transparency, liquidity management, and bank/debt compliance during the financial crisis. Marc also sat on the Capital Markets Committee to triage, forecast, and ensure the overall health of owners’ real estate portfolios. Marc worked closely with his team to ensure quick and accurate monthly accounting cycles, robust financial reporting, and live data reporting to help the company maintain liquidity, expand, fund-raise, and preserve profits.

In 2012, Marc joined a high-net-worth single-family office as the CFO. Marc was a key advisor to the chairman and his family, providing tax and estate planning, financial reporting, and investment structuring. He provided full-cycle accounting, equity and loan sourcing, asset management, and tax compliance to a diverse array of assets on behalf of the individual and his family. Marc was also responsible for all aspects of financial operations, including cash management, financial reporting, income taxes, financial statement audits, budgeting, employee benefits, and information technology.

In 2020, Marc became the Executive Director at a multi-family office, where he was an outsourced CFO and COO to entrepreneurs and high-net-worth families. Marc’s clients had large and diverse investment portfolios. He oversaw accounting, tax strategy, cash management, forecasting, human capital, debt/equity raise, and investor relations, while building a solid operational infrastructure on behalf of his client.