Client Collaborations
All Representative Cases
Assist nonprofit client with hotel acquisition and redevelopment into transitional housing, including all aspects of due diligence and collaboration with their funding partner.
Successfully appealed decertification of a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Woman/Minority-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE).
Represented major corporation in defending against government entity’s environmental claims associated with historic petroleum operations in the vicinity of a former pier in northern California.
Assisted manufacturing
clients with regulatory compliance of latest PFAS laws regulating food
packaging and consumer products.
Represented condemnee owner of shipyard being condemned by the State Ferry System in jury trial resulting in $4.1 million verdict in favor of our client.
Successfully recovered more than $100 million in minority oppression dispute between two shareholders of closely held company. Also obtained changes to board of directors and corporate governance in favor of client.
Represented corporate trustee on division and conveyance of approximately a dozen properties, with value in excess of $25,000,000, to trust beneficiaries.
Represented national secured lender in connection with chapter 15 case of Portland Winterhawks (Bankr. D. Or 2020).
Conducted numerous complex investigations of sex and race discrimination claims in highly sensitive situations involving high-level administrators and executives.