Hope Wynn is a 1988 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.) and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.). She obtained her undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1982 (B.A.). She practiced for one year in the Oh-Ebashi Law Office in Osaka, Japan, handling international commercial transactions, for one year as an associate with Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc., investment bankers in New York City, and has been in private practice since then. Her practice is primarily in commercial real estate, representing both developers and lenders in all areas of real estate transactions, development and finance.